American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1959)

SYSTEM WOXHOLT" The Key to Cinematography Under the Seas REVOLUTIONARY EQUIPMENT HANDLED BY BRITAIN’S EXPERT UNDERWATER CAMERAMAN. ★ WORLD AGENTS: M. (. A. (England) LTD. 139 PICADILLY LONDON, W. 1 • UNITED KINGDOM The amazing Presto Splicer eliminates ad¬ hesives, emulsion scraping, and ail the mess normolly associated with out-doted splicer methods. Presto Splicer permanently butt¬ welds the film back to its originol condition — end to end. Double thickness is done awoy with OS well as out of focus frames. Film is automoticolly re-plasticized when fused. ECONDS Handle customer 35 mm ColoT Film in 10 seconds or less — free from film domage with the miracle Presto Splicer. CompleteFy ^ outomotic 2 second splicing action ond self alignment ossures perfect splices every time — even in the dark room. Write for illustroted Brochure. PRESTOSEAL MANUFACTURING CORP 37-27 33rd STREET LONG island city 1, NEW YORK Export Dept.; Reeves Equipment Corp. IDE. 52nd Street, New York City, New York Coble: Reevesquip, New York INDUSTRY NEWS News briefs of industry activities^ products and progress A method of utilizing color television to improve color motion pictures and still photography has been developed hy Hazeltine Research Corp., Little Neck, N. Y. Company has developed an instantaneous electronic color film analyzer which can display at once on a color television receiver a positive color picture from a color negative. This picture will show exactly the qual¬ ity of positive print that can be ob¬ tained from the negative in the actual film printing process. The instrument permits immediate adjustments for desired density and color balance by providing instan¬ taneous data for the entire film and for area masking as well. It also allows for full use of the large tolerance in nega¬ tive color film to offset poor exposure, according to the company. It has been announced that a pro¬ totype model of the Hazeltine Anal¬ yzer has been used by several large motion picture film processing labor¬ atories, which reported excellent re¬ sults. • • • Dates for two important Workshops to be presented by The Calvin Company, Kansas City, Mo., have been set by the company. February 2 through 4, 1959, are the dates selected for the 13 th Annual Motion Picture Production Workshop to be presented on Calvin’s Kansas City sound stages. The three day session will be de¬ voted to an analysis of the process of producing motion pictures in the in¬ dustrial and allied fields. Sessions will include screened illustrations, displays, and talks by leading film producers and Calvin staff personnel. The Third Medical Motion Picture Workshop, sponsored by the Veterans’ Administration will be held in the Cal¬ vin studios March 16, 17 and 18, 1959. The three days will be devoted to discussions of processes employed to¬ day in producing motion pictures in the medical and allied fields. There is no charge for attending the Motion Picture Workshop or the ban¬ quet that concludes the session. A fee of $100 is required of those attending the Medical Workshop sessions. For in¬ formation and reservations, write The Calvin Company, 1105 Truman Road, Kansas City 6, Mo. • • • A weekly newsreel in color, 1,000 feet in length is planned by the J. Arthur Rank Organization, London, starting early this year. Cameramen will use Eastman Color negative. New color newsreel will replace Rank’s Gaumont British and Universal Newsreels. • • • Thanks to a government appropria¬ tion of $60,000, the paper-film re¬ clamation project ot fhe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, be¬ gun in 1948, will be resumed and com¬ pleted. The two-year research, led by former Academy President George Seaton, for revenues necessary to reactivate the dormant project ended late last sum¬ mer when Congress okayed the appro¬ priation to the Library of Congress. Immediately following, Kemp Niver of Hollywood, inventor of the Renovare process used to convert the paper to film, was awarded the reclamation contract. The paper prints of motion pictures originated in the early days of film making as a means of obtaining a valid copyright, and picture important events and personalities between 1894 and 1912, when the practice was aban¬ doned. The Academy spent approximately $300,000 on the reclamation project between 1953 and 1956, when avail¬ able funds were depleted and the pro¬ ject was abandoned. • • • H. W. Remerscheid, Vice-president of Bell & Howell Co. and head of the com¬ pany’s western branch in Glendale, Calif., has retired after 32 years of service. In charge of the company’s western operations for the past 19 Continued on Page 1 1 6 AMERICAN CINEAAATOGRAPHER