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Current document root: Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers ( Volume: 51, Issue: 1, July 1948)

Brightness and Illumination Requirements

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  • Report of Screen-Brightness Committee[Active]
  • 2. “I.E.S. Lighting Handbook,” Illuminating Engineering Society , New York, New York , 1947 , p. 2 – 2 .EXTERNAL
  • 3. “The brightness ratio of the visual task” (ex. gr., the screen) “to its immediate surroundings should be no greater than three.” From “Brightness and brightness ratios,” Report No. 1 of the Committee on Standards of Quality and Quantity for Interior Illumination of the Illuminating Engineering Society, Ilium. Eng. , vol. 39 , pp. 713 – 723 ; December, 1944 .EXTERNAL
  • 4. Falge F. M. Riddle W. D. , “The lighting of motion picture auditoriums,” J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , vol. 3 , pp. 201 – 212 ; February, 1939 .EXTERNAL
  • 5. Jones L. A. , “The interior illumination of the motion picture theater,” Trans. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , no. 10, pp. 83 – 96 ; 1920 .EXTERNAL
  • 6. Luckiesh M. L. , “Reading as a Visual Task,” D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. , New York, New York , 1942 , p. 23 .EXTERNAL
  • 7. This relationship of 10 to 1 for screen brightness to surrounding brightness (or auditorium brightness), is based on Lythgoe's research as reported by Parry Moon in “The Scientific Basis of Illuminating Engineering,” McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. , New York, New York , 1936 , p. 441 .EXTERNAL
  • 8. Logan H. L. , “The role of lighting in accident prevention,” Elec. Eng. , vol. 62 , pp. 143 – 147 ; April, 1943 .EXTERNAL