Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1929)

Record Details:

Title:
Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Date:
1929
Publisher:
New York : Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Volume:
Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1929)
Leaf #:
00039
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Cinematography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Technical Journals
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Preceeded by an unnumbered issue published in 1916 called: Incorporation and by-laws
Date Added:
November 17, 2022
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REPORT OF STANDARDS AND NOMENCLATURE COMMITTEE May, 1929 TWO meetings of the committee as a whole have been held since the semi-annual meeting of the Society at Lake Placid. The first of these was held on February 20, 1929, in New York. Those present were : Messrs. Sponable, Spence, Sease, Rayton, MacKenzie, Dreyer, Chanier, Burnap, Brown, and Jones, Chairman. This meeting may be regarded as an organization meeting at which the entire field of the committee 's activities was discussed in a general way and an attempt was made to outline the work which it seemed desirable that the committee should undertake. The extent of the field requiring the attention of this committee has become so broad it is practically impossible for one individual to successfully initiate and follow up all the work that should be done. Moreover, the personnel of the Standards Committee at present is very large. It is difficult to get all of the members together frequently and it was felt that small committees of only two or three members each could, in the initial stages at least, deal more efficiently with various problems. The following subdivisions of the field were made and the subcommittees appointed: 1. Sound film practice : E. I. Sponable H. W. Dreyer Donald MacKenzie, Chairman This committee was requested to study the standardization of the dimensional characteristics of positive sound film. This includes width and position of the sound track on the film, the dimensions and position of the picture area, distance between the picture gate and the sound slit, and all other dimensional characteristics relating to positive sound film and its use. 2. 35 mm. film and equipment, including 35 mm. sprocket, projector, and camera practice : H. N. Griffin A. S. Howell G. L. Chanier J. L. Spence, Jr. V. B. Sease, Chairman 29