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Report of Standards and Nomenclature Committee 447
of the picture is to be three-quarters of the width. In the case of talking films, that is impossible, and there are other experimental films coming along in which the shape of the aperture will be different. The Society should take a hand at this point of the argument.
Then, the whole field of the amateur apparatus requires standardization very badly. It has been standardized as much as it has because the Eastman Kodak Company started making film for it and has standardized the film. The Society approved the 16 mm film size and should now adopt standards for gates and sprockets so that they fit the film. In the past, manufacturers have discussed the matter with the Kodak Company and they suggested what should be done so that the matter is not in chaos, but it will be very soon. The German manufacturers are starting in this field and others are also considering it.
I think the Standards Committee have a lot of work before them, and we must probably alter our methods. I do not think we can improve the personnel or willingness of the Committee, but I think we must strengthen it.
President Cook: With regard to standardization on certain features, we are delayed because of just such discussions as came up this morning.
Dr. Mees: I am asking that the Standards Committee of the Society get ahead on the standardizing of new things as soon as they come out, so that other people will adopt them. If the speed of projection of musical film had been laid down at a meeting of the Society, then the Western Electric Company and others would have agreed, especially if they had had a letter from the committee.
Mr. Richardson: For the most part I regard what Dr. Mees has said as in every way excellent. The points he has raised are pertinent. For many years I have preached the gospel that camera and projector speed should be the same. I have been roundly abused and even ridiculed for doing so. When the matter first came before this Society I had many arguments with my colleagues on the Standards and Nomenclature Committee concerning the advisabilty of making a recommendation that camera or "taking" speed and projection speed be the same. I was over-ruled chiefly on the ground that inasmuch as to increase taking speed to the relatively high projection speed made necessary by the demand for high screen illumination would compel the use of much more negative film, hence producers would not adopt the recommendation even though it be made. The chief function of this Society is to determine what is the