Test Films — Standards at Work

Boyce Nemec

Uniqueness of content sets one motion picture apart from any other. Yet to reach its audience at all, that same motion picture must be precisely standardized, a rigorous condition not imposed upon any other creative product. One of SMPTE's jobs is to determine “how standard.” How this is done through test films is explained in this paper.

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1957-09
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10.5594/J11212
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