Twenty-fifth anniversary celebration [motion picture] 1954.

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Twenty-fifth anniversary celebration [motion picture] 1954.

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The film records the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration dinner and the after-dinner entertainment at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, held in New York City, June 23-26, 1954. Speakers include: Leo L. Beranek, Richard H. Bolt, Hallowell Davis, Leo Delsasso, John R. Dunning, Herbert A. Erf, Floyd A. Firestone, Harvey Fletcher, Frederick V. Hunt, Hugh S. Knowles, Vern O. Knudsen, Erwin Meyer, Harry F. Olson, George B. Pegram, E.G. Richardson, Paul E. Sabine, Frederick A. Saunders, John C. Steinberg, Wallace Waterfall, and Edward C. Wente.A 33-page booklet, Anecdotal History: The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Celebration of the Acoustical Society of America, provides a transcript and is available in the library's Institutional History Collection.

6 film reels (260 min.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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