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REPORT OF RECIPROCAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE
NO INDUSTRY is more international in its scope than that of the motion picture. The motion picture invading every known corner of the earth speaks a universal language and is understood by all. A picture made at Hollywood finds appreciation and understanding in the polar regions as well as the South Sea Islands.
Film and apparatus are manufactured in most countries possessing any degree of industrial enterprise, and the product is almost invariably exported due to the economic necessity of larger circulation than is offered by home consumption only.
A projector made in New York meets a reel of film made in Paris, and in order that the product from the two cities may work harmoniously when they meet in Shanghai, Samarkand or Damascus, they must fit or, in other words, be standardized.
Even before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers began its work, a fairly accurate degree of standardization had been attained. Such a standardization had been secured, however, only after a great deal of lost effort to many manufacturers who did not make apparatus or film in accordance with the measurements ultimately adopted.
Loss of time and money was the penalty of a method, based on the survival of the strong. A repetition of such automatic selection of methods has become unnecessary, since organizations for the purpose of standardization exist.
New apparatus entering the projection room, laboratory, or studio, may now be standardized from their inception and former mistakes may be avoided.
The Society of Motion Picture Engineers has become recognized as an authority on these matters, and its findings and recommendations are closely followed by the trade.
The United States is not, however, the only country concerned in this matter. Since the industry is world wide, adoption of standards must also be world wide.
It is the task of the Reciprocal Relations Committee to establish contact with and bring into relation with our own, societies formed in other countries.
England
An association formed for purposes similar to the Society of Motion Picture Engineers now exists in London, known as The Incorporated Association of Kinematograph Manufacturers, Ltd., with headquarters at 167-169 Wardour Street, London, W.
The subject of standard of dimensions for cinematograph film was first discussed by this association as far back as February, 1907. At
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