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It is absolutely impossible to publish the Transactions promptly unless the authors cooperate and send in their material shortly after the convention.
Next year, by action of the Society, you have authorized the carrying out of the recommendations which your Papers Committee has made ; namely, that papers be printed and distributed in advance of the convention and that at the convention, extracts or synopses only, of the papers be read; the majority of the time being devoted to discussion.
You have also authorized having a public stenographer present to take down the discussions, and that the discussions appear together with the full text of the paper in the Transactions. Your Committee believes that as the paper itself is only one man's opinion on the subject, it will be made much more valuable when thoroughly discussed by numerous people. In order to accomplish this, however, it is absolutely necessary that the texts of papers for the convention be in the hands of the Papers Committee four zi'eeks in advance of the convention. We would call this to the special attention of prospective authors for the Spring convention, asking their cooperation in this matter.
You have also, by recent action, agreed to your Papers Committee recommendation that extracts of the discussions given at the present convention accompany the papers when they appear in the Transactions. You will realize that it is impossible for our secretary to record long-hand the various discussions and we, therefore, point out to those who discussed papers the necessity of promptly sending either to the secretary or to the Papers Committee their discussions.
We would also recommend that extracts of actions taken by the Board of Governors, and by the convention as a whole, appear in the Transactions.
By way of more permanent work, your committee recommended some time ago that a new committee be formed, to be known as a "Committee on Progress" ; this committee to report at each convention things of interest which have been accomplished in the various branches of the industry since the last convention. We are proud of the two reports which we have had from this committee and think they have demonstrated the value and permanence of this work.
We believe that it would be of great assistance to extract any articles appearing in the Transactions of other technical societies, or in the press, which pertain to the work of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, and we believe that a permanent committee should be formed to give such a report at each convention, this being a part of the committee's work, the chief aim being cooperation with other organizations. We would, therefore, recommend the formation of a Committee on Reciprocal Relations.
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