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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS
THE work of the Committee on Standards has fallen chiefly along six lines, which are reported below. Of these the first has been regarded as being within the province of the Committee on Standards alone. In the other five lines the Committee has referred the matter to the Committee or Committees especially interested, and with a request for recommendations. This has been done from no desire to avoid either labor or responsibility, but because it was thought that the specialists composing the various committees would be able to give far better suggestions, each in his own line, than any single committee covering the entire field.
I. Proposed Changes in the Report on Standards Appearing in the Transactions of May, 1920
As was brought out at the last meeting, a special committee of the American Engineering Standards Committee, composed largely of members of our Society, met last September to consider the adoption of the standards of the Society of the Motion Picture Engineers by the American Engineering Standards Committee. These standards were presented in the form appearing in the Montreal transactions. After considerable discussion the whole matter was referred back to this Society for reconsideration, with the suggestion that the form in which the standards were presented should be changed, so as to separate standards purely dimensional, from recommended practice. It was also suggested that definitions be omitted from the list. The Standards Committee drew up a form which seemed to comply with these requirements, and sent this to our president, with the suggestion that he have copies sent to each member of the Society, in order that each might have an opportunity to mature and formulate his ideas on this important matter before discussion at this meeting. Unfortunately, this work was finished but a short time ago.
The Committee on Standards, then, presents to the Society the five following propositions :
A. Following the suggestion of the Engineering Standards Committee, it is proposed that the report be divided into two parts as follows :l (a) Dimensional Standards
(1) Lantern slide mat opening. Three (3) inches wide by two and one quarter (2J^) inches high.
(2) Perforated motion in picture film (See cut).
Standard Safety
1 The dimensions are the same as those already adopted, the changes being in arrangement only.
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