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

Book Description

SMPTE, New York, 1937-1952. Very good: light stain to top margin of volume 35 (July-December 1940). 9 x 6 inches, black fabricoid with former owner's name in gold on each upper cover, bound without wrappers, Run of 186 issues of the Journal beginning with volume 28, number 1 (January 1937) through volume 59, number 6 (December 1952). Lacking volume 47 (July-December 1946). Not included are 2 membership directories and the index for volume 57, published as separate "Part II's" that accompanied issues of the Journal. Includes a supplement on high-speed photography that was issued as Part II of the March 1949 Journal, and the May 1950 Membership Directory. All volumes except for 57 are bound with indices. 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 August 1937 issue contains 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 includes 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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