8mm Performance: Lessons from History

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 71, No. 8, pp. 556–556
Abstract: With the great increase in interest in the potential economy of 8mm film and projectors it is essential to examine closely performance objectives and capabilities. The big need is standards — American Standards. There is a key and lock relationship among machine, film, screen and peripheral equipment. 8mm must do much better than it does now, and much better than 16mm in realizing a high percentage of the quality potential. Today, standardization is a formalized process in which the needs of users and of producers are translated into engineering terms, working through the member bodies of the American Standards Association. The promise of 8mm is great — what we need now is work to bring that future to pass. Let us design 8mm to be certain to work, not certain to just fail. The future is very rosy indeed if we eliminate the bottlenecks.
Publication Date: 1962-08-01
DOI: 10.5594/J09330
ISSN: Print: 0361-4573
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J09330
Author(s): Wm. H. OffenhauserNew Canaan, Conn.
Copyright: © 1962 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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