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I am sure you appreciate that standardization stands not for fixation, but for steady progress, step by step, at such time intervals as may be found most efficient. In your work, as in that of other societies of engineers, you may count upon the cooperation of the National Bureau of Standards. On behalf of Dr. Stratton, the Director of the Bureau, I may say that the facilities of the Bureau as far as practicable will be extended to any committee you may appoint to deal with standardization.
In conclusion, may I express my deep appreciation of your work and the art it serves. To me the motion picture is the wonder of the world in its effects and possibilities. Its uses in education, science, recreation, industry, engineering, and social movements make it vie in interest and power with the printing press itself. It speaks the universal language of action. It is the magic carpet of Bagdad to take us to all lands, under sea and under land, among the clouds, to fairyland, and into the world's markets, laboratories, hospitals, and factories. In portraying the flight of a bullet it magnifies time, in recording the unfolding of a flower from the bud it compresses days into seconds. It is not making the world a little neighborhood, it is rather making of each neighborhood a little world. It intensifies life by broadening its contact with all life — for it is your business to bring into the experience of each the experience of all. Through the motion picture, in fact, we may create new experience, for nowhere has the magic of the miraculous been so tangibly realized as on the screen. The quickening effect of this wonderful art upon social evolution is beyond estimate. To say that as an art it is in its infancy is to state the obvious. Its possibilities are limited only by the power of the creative imagination and the technical powers of the engineer. Its success depends not upon subject alone but upon the factors of economy, efficiency, safety, comfort, and interest, which in turn depend upon scientific standardization. May your work have a success commensurate with its interest and importance, and through your organization may you, in the words of Washington, "raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair."