American Standards and Their Place in the Motion Picture Industry

The American Standards Association is a federation of trade associations, technical societies, and departments of the Federal Government. It was organized in 1918 as a result of the country's experience during the World War, and has since served as the national clearing house for standards. Some 400 American Standards have been approved to date in a wide variety of industrial fields and in the field of industrial and public safety. — Some years ago at the request of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, the American standards Association organized a Committee on Motion Picture Standards. This might be said to be the beginning of national standardization in the photographic field. The committee brought together, under the sponsorship of the SMPE, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Acoustical Society of America, and a wide circle of scientific, engineering, and commercial groups interested in cinematography. Some of the standards approved by the ASA through the coöperative work of these many groups have become world-wide. There are 33 standards and recommended practices now before the ASA for approval as a result of long and arduous work by the motion picture Sectional Committee. — The association is also very actively engaged in the development of national standards for photography. A draft standard for determining photographic speeds of certain types of negative materials will probably be published in a few weeks for trial and criticism.

Print ISSN

0097-5834

Published

1941-02

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J09990