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Sweden
A Swedish Society — Svenska Kinematografiska Sallekapet — with headquarters in Stockholm is, at the present time, receiving the Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers and correspondence has been established with the organization through Mrs. Dagmar Waldner, Librarian of the Society.
The Swedish Society is not engaged in standardization, but is chiefly interested in the application of motion pictures to educational purposes. It has, however, a unique feature which other societies would do well to copy.
It has, as far as your chairman knows, the only library dealing exclusively with motion pictures. The credit for having brought this library into existence is due to the efforts of Mrs. Waldner.
France
No data has been secured which may be reported at this meeting, but your Committee hopes to have some information to offer shortly.
Your Committee has the following recommendations to offer:
1. That an exchange membership be created whereby the chairman of the Reciprocal Relations Committee be permitted to exchange membership in other societies for membership in our own. Such memberships to other societies should become part of the chairmanship of the Reciprocal Relations Committee so that successive chairmen may automatically become members of other societies when changes are made in chairmanship.
2. That booklets be printed in several languages, containing the standards and recommended practice adopted by our Society, as well as giving the purposes of our organization. Possibly a Book of Standards, which should be issued by us, could be translated for this purpose.
3. The establishment of a library of books and periodicals on all matters pertaining to the motion picture industry. The feasibility of such a library depends upon the problem of securing a place for such books and periodicals where members of the Society as well as the general public may be able to obtain data and information. There is, as far as we know, no such library existing in this country, and its need has frequently been demonstrated to your chairman while he acted as Secretary of the Society. It is possible that some library at present in New York may be willing to house and furnish the facilities for a collection of material. Such publications and printed matter as are now secured through the Reciprocal Relations Committee would be entirely wasted if not in some manner put at the disposal of all members of the Society.
A. F. Victor, Chairman
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