SMPTE Wants Industry Aid
Prexy Mole Says H'wood
Must Share cost of Research
  The 70th semi-annual convention of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers opened yesterday at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, with opening luncheon and two technical sessions featuring the day's activities.
More than 300 attended the luncheon at which producer Jerry Wald and Donn Tatum, director of television for ABC's western division, delivered talks, and Otto H. Schade of RCA was presented with the David Sarnoff medal award for outstanding achievement in television egineering. Schade is the first recipient of the newly established citation.
Peter Mole, SMPTE prexy, reiterated his opinion of last spring that unified effort was necessary between the engineer, producer and exhibitor, stating "It's MY belief t at successful future for the producer and exhibitor depends on a close alliance with the engineer," pointing out that sound and color came to the industry from outside interests, and further new developments may not materialize in a finished form unless the industry is willing to share in the research program.
Seated on the dais were: Dr. Norwood Simmons, Fred Albin, Ralph Austrian ' 		   

Charles Daily, Col. Charles L. Stoddard, William Kelly' Herbert Barnett, Dr. John G. Frayne, Richard Walsh, Nathan Golden, E. C. Daugherty, William C. Kunzynann, Ray Colvin, Earl Sponable, Tatump Wald and Schade.
Technical sessions started with an afternoon meeting devoted to tbeatre-TV. Schade delivered a paper on his development of a method of determining universal ratings. F. N. Gillette described direct-projection equipment for tbeatre-TV designed by General Precision Laboratory.
Philip J. Herbst, RCA technical administrator for Standards Products Engineering, disclosed that RCA is launching a research program to improve kinescopes Blair Foulds and E. A. Hungerford, Jr., of General Precision, described a TV camera. L. T. Sachtleben described an ultra high-speed optical system for theatre-TV.
Television was the subject of last night's session at which papers were -presented by A. G. Jensen, R. E. Graham and C. F. Mattke, of Bell Telephone; A. S. Quiroga and C. G. Pierce of ABC, Hollywood; A. D. Fowler of B 11 Labs; G. C. Higgins and L.A.Jones, of Eastman Kodak.

 
 

Tuesday, October 16, 1951

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