We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
that time it was found, on comparing perforations of films of different makers, that there was small but important differences, and with the object of ensuing uniformity in film dimensions, certain measurements which had been found in accordance with average practice were submitted to the members, and were generally adopted. For some time past it had been felt by the manufacturers of apparatus that the time was ripe for the adoption of a more comprehensive and definite standard than had formerly been the case.
On December 17, 1919, a meeting was called for the purpose of discussing the matter, when Mr. Arthur Newman gave an address on the subject and demonstrated by means of lantern slides the wide differences existing between certain makes of films.
At that meeting, which was attended by all the British manufacturers (or their representatives) of Kinematograph apparatus, it was unanimously decided that the question of kinematograph standards should receive more detailed consideration, and a Standards SubCommittee was set up to deal with the matter.
The Report and Recommendations of the Sub-Committee were submitted at a general meeting of the Association held on October 12, 1920, and were unanimously adopted.
The preceding has been practically copied from the preface of the booklet "Standard Measurements/' which also contain the following statement:
"The Sub-committee has also been in correspondence with the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, of the U. S. A., and have considered very carefully the transactions of that Society, covering the last four years. It is hoped that the standards herein submitted may in course of time become the standards throughout the world, so that no matter what make of film or projector may be used, they will be interchangeable in every country where the Kinematograph is used either for the educational or social welfare of its people.
"(Signed) J. Brooke Wilkinson, Sec'y"
The Chairman of your Committee recommends to the Committee on Standardization a careful perusal of the booklet "Standard Measurements"; especially in view of the fact that some measurements adopted by the Incorporated Association of Kinematograph Manufacturers differ slightly from those adopted by our own Society.
Steps should be taken to immediately remove all possible differences. In many cases the measurements differ so slightly that tolerances permitted in manufacture will cover the slight variations, so that for all practical purposes the differences will not prove a hardship.
Germany
A society with headquarters in Berlin, under the name of the "Deutsche Kinotechnische Gesellschaft," has been formed for the purpose of promoting the progress of matters relating to kinematography.
Your Committee does not, as yet, know whether standards have been formulated by this society, but is obtaining this inform
181