Journal of the Society of Motion Picture (and Television) Engineers

Book Description

SMPTE, New York, 1935-1954. Very good: scattered silverfishing to wrappers, spines in particular, small, neat ownership stamp to bottom right corners of upper wrapper and title page of each issue. 9 x 6 inches, printed wrappers, Complete run of 237 issues of the Journal beginning with volume 24, number 4 (April 1935) through volume 63, number 6 (December 1954), plus 5-year indices covering the period 1930-1985 (total of 10 index issues), and the complete 12 Journal issues for the year 1986 (volume 95). Not included are separate "Part II's" that accompanied 18 issues of the Journal. (5 of these are membership directories, 9 are volume indices and 4 are separate volumes on particular topics). Beginning with the July 1954 issue, the Journal went to an 11 1/4 x 8 1/4-inch format.The Society added "and Television" to the name of the Journal beginning with the January 1950 issue. Though the name changed only in 1950, the Journal had long included material on television. The first issue in this run to include TV is that for July 1935. Included in the August 1937 issue is an article about RCA's field test of a comprehensive broadcasting system in New York City, flagged by the Museum of Broadcast Communications Web site as being a seminal report. The September 1940 issue contains a 13-page illustrated account of the first-ever TV broadcast of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, on New Year's Day, 1940. Demonstrating the importance of the Journal as primary source material documenting the development of film and television technology, the University of California Press published in 1983 "A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television: An Anthology from the pages of the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.

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