American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1963)

12mm-120mm ANGEH Zoom Lenses with or without VIEWFINDER FOR 16MM MOTION PICTURE CAMERAS Dealer Inquiries Invited SOLE DISTRIBUTORS ZOOMAR INTERNATIONAL, INC. Glen Cove, N.Y. 516 ORiole 6-1900 INDUSTRY NEWS Continued from Page 378 era, grip, and film editing depart¬ ments of the Ziv-United Artists studio. Some of the equipment will be made available through the company’s rent¬ al department and the balance sold outright to independent film producers in the U.S. and overseas. Previously, Birns & Sawyer acquired surplus motion picture production equipment from MGM, Columbia, Uni¬ versal-International, and Republic stu¬ dios. ROBERT CIRACE (left) received award from Robert Berman for New England Press Photographers Assn. At right is Bob Howard, Prexy of Association. Robert Grace, WBZ-TV News Cameraman, Honored New England Press Photographer’s Association last month voted Robert Cirace, news photographer for WBZTV, Boston, “Newsreel Photographer of the Year’’ and presented him with an award for “Best In The Show” for his film “Christmas In A Toy Store,” entered in the Feature TV Class of the Association’s annual awards event. The winning film portrayed youngsters enjoying the wonders of a department store toy section during the height of the Christmas shopping season. Presentation of the award was a feature of the Annual Press Photog¬ rapher’s Ball held at Boston’s Sheraton Plaza Hotel last month. • Aerojet Films Win Two Cindy Awards Two “Cindy” trophies, comparable to Hollywood’s famous “Oscars,” were awarded last month to Aerojet-General Corporation’s Sacramento (Calif.) film group. The winning films were “Power of the Individual,” a documentary con¬ cerning man’s role in the production of reliable propulsion systems, pro¬ duced by Frederick Giermann for the company’s Liquid Rocket Plant; and “Two Dimensional Grain Design for Solid Rocket Motors,” produced by Mitch Rose. Cameramen F red Stocks, George Madson, Glenn Beier, and Norm Han¬ son did the photography for “Power of the Individual.” Art direction and animation for the second film was done by a sub-contractor. Eastman Kodak and Du Pont Increase Raw Film Prices Prices of professional black-andwhite motion picture positive film were increased last month by both Eastman Kodak Company and Du Pont Photo Products. Eastman films affected by the change are B&W positive 35mm and 16mm films and sound recording and B&W motion picture positive types of materials. Costs are up from $16 to about $17 per thousand feet for 35mm, and from $8.75 to about $9.25 per thousand feet for 16mm. Du Pont’s price hikes, announced simultaneously with Eastman’s, affect Type 802 sound recording, Type 833 fine grain VA sound recording, Type 803 high-speed release positive, Type 824 fine grain low-contrast positive, Type 828 fine grain master positive, Type 834 TV recording, Type 225 “Cronar” fine grain release positive, Type 825 fine grain release positive and leader stock films. Du Pont’s price hikes range from 2.3 to 7.9 per cent. A week later (June 25th) Eastman announced that the price of Ektachrome ER motion picture film had been reduced about 17 per cent — the price cut applying to 16mm, 35mm and 70mm widths. • Du Pont Debuts “Superior” 3 Negative in 16mm and 35mm Du Pont, on June 21st, announced its “Superior” 3 negative film, a new panchromatic motion picture film for indoor use in both 16mm and 35mm widihs. “Superior’’ 3 is a high-speed, fine-grain negative with an ASA speed rating of 250 daylight and 200 tung¬ sten. It is designed for general motion picture and TV studio production work to permit photography of fine-grain images under low set illumination lev¬ els, or to shoot with smaller lens open¬ ings in order to increase depth of field. New film is available in 16mm day¬ light loading rolls of 100, 200, and 400 feet, and bulk loads of 400 and 1200 feet. In 35mm it is available in 100-loot daylight loading rolls and in bulk loads of 200, 400, and 1000 feet. • Veteran Van der Veer Dies Willard Van der Veer who was of¬ ficial cameraman with the Adm. Rich¬ ard E. Byrd expeditions, died of a heart attack in his home last month. He had served half a century as a movie and newsreel cameraman. Continued on Page 382 380 AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER, JULY, 1963