Message from the Executive Director: The U.K. Section and Region Say So Long, But Not Goodbye
Barbara H. Lange
It was back in 2011 when then Governor Richard Welsh proposed to the SMPTE Board of Governors that the U.K. had the requisite number of signatures to establish the U.K. Section. Some Board members were surprised to learn that SMPTE did not already have a U.K. Section. In fact, the Society had a London Section that existed back in the late 1920s. As it is today, London and the U.K., in general, were a hotbed of activity in the areas of motion pictures and its developing technologies. Due to internal politics, the London Section decided to secede from SMPE (no T at that time), and many of its members went on to form the British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society (BKSTS).