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Mr. Porter remarked that credit for the preparation of the report was due to Mr. Bennington.
Mr. McGinnis cited an attempt made by another organization of which he was a member to estabHsh a correspondence course. He said that he did not question the ability of our Society to produce perfect projectionists by means of correspondence, but called attention to the fact that local requirements where in some cases an apprentice was compelled to put in six months actual work before permitted to operate a projector, would work against the scheme. He said that he agreed with Mr. Victor that the matter be dropped.
Mr. Burrows said that it had been hoped at the time the plan for a correspondence course was proposed, that w^e would be able to be of assistance to the projectionists, but if, as appeared to be the case, the projectionists would be narrow-minded enough to be antagonistic to the scheme, and if, in addition, the plan was financially impractical, he offered as an alternative that the Society make an ofi^er of assistance to some existing correspondence schools, for instance, the one operated in Scranton.
Mr. Bragdon suggested that by increasing the edition from a suggested 5,000 to 10,000 the cost per copy would be lowered and wondered if this would prove a way out of the difficulty.
Mr. Jenkins stated that he considered the remarks made had very well covered the subject and considered that the difficulties confronting the Society in carrying out its plans were such as to prevent the undertaking of the work.
Mr. Porter, in order to refresh our memory of the recommendation made at the Montreal meeting, read it and said that it might not be practical of the Society to handle the financial end, but that some way might be devised in which our technical knowledge might be at the disposal of the projectionists.
Mr. Cameron said that two correspondence schools already had courses for projectionists.
Mr. Perkins mentioned that in conversation with a member of the La Salle Institute he (the member) had expressed as his opinion that the Institute would be glad to handle the work if the Society would sponsor the matter.
It was moved, seconded and carried that the report be referred back to the Special Committee for further consideration. Paper on "Characteristics of Motion Picture Screens/' by Mr. L. A. Jones.
A discussion followed Mr. Jones' paper. • Mr. Egeler said that the work done by his organization checked very well with Mr. Jones' data. He said that his observation had been that the Keystone effect and placing of screens also called for vertical, as well as horizontal consideration. He asked if Mr. Jones had considered the vertical problem.
Mr. Jones replied that the examination of screens made by him had considered both vertical as well as horizontal questions.
Mr. Victor said that the paper was a "peach" and that here
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