Image Gradation, Graininess and Sharpness in Television and Motion Picture Systems: Part II: The Grain Structure of Motion Picture Images—An Analysis of Deviations and Fluctuations of the Sample Number

Presented by Otto H. Schade, Tube Dept., Radio Corporation of America, Harrison, N.J., in part on April 20, 1950, at the Society's Atlantic Coast Section Meeting at New York, and on May 3, 1951, at the Society's Convention at New York. Portions of this paper have been made available to the Subcommittee on Distribution Facilities, Theater Television Committee of the SMPTE, in the form of three reports: (1) “Random Fluctuations in Television and Motion Pictures,” June 7, 1950; (2) “Outline and Results of a Study to Determine Television System Parameters Providing an Image Sharpness Equivalent to a 35-Millimeter Motion Picture Process,” May 15, 1951; (3) “Theater Television Transmission Channel: Choice of Performance Factors,” May 31, 1951.