The National Bureau of Standards and its Possible Technical Relations to the Motion Picture Industry

Motion pictures are about as modern as the Bureau of Standards; both are twentieth century products. As an organized branch of engineering yours is ten years old, the youngest of the family. In 1900, motion picture photography was still in days of hit or miss. Progress in measured control has brought us a developed art. The new motion picture which will add color, stereo-relief, and sounds will be-highly complex in its technical aspects. Standardization and measured control will then more than ever be indispensable; in fact, the trend in all industry today is toward complete measured control standardization.