Business screen magazine (1946)

iiusic sliow, which is piograninicd nil) markets ihrmighmit the United iiatcs. The scope of this progiiim s indicated by its millions of nightly istencrs, who arc offered a full five S-ours of classical/'popular music 65 days of the year. I The audio-visual department's lound engineers, along with Yerian. (ire helping to design puhlic address ystenis lor the inns. Recently. the\ hipped equipment to five locations It once. The division chief has reached lack into his long years of theatri!al production experience to design tage lighting and controls for varous inns. Lighting apparatus rccntly was shipped from Memphis. () inns in California and Rochester, ,>I.Y. "We get more ncarl\ what they heed, and put it together less expensively.'" explains Yerian. He muses, "As you sit inside this irganization and watch it blossom, ;ou realize that this whole A-V opration is based on a kind of comiiion sense approach to problems as hcv come along . . . and thus, we Kiitribute to our worldwide growth i: Hir own way." But these audio-visual people icn't sitting on their laurels. They now that the tools being produced mist accomplish results. \ccordingly, they sponsored a recnt mail test of training film users; x.iniinations devised on a typical ■ubject were accepted by 19 of the irst 20 inns contacted. The results lunved genuine understanding of •he basic material. ; Comparable future testing will be llone by Holiday University person|iel. Carman Robinson, the com tany's vice president for education ,nd training is the operating chief 'f Holiday Inn University, and Dr. \ndrew Holt, retired president of he University of Tennessee, is hanccllor/educational consultant. Nearly all that has been discussed s only a prelude to Holiday Inn's icceptance of the role of communiation. and has related largely to ts internal usage — serving personicl training and convention/confer■nce groups. Still other and vastly mportant sides to this comnumicaion story are the external aspects — neeting facilities available at each >f the 1300 worldwide inns — and he far-reaching potential of the A-V communications sound engineer and staff busily check plans for new $200,000 color television studio being built for Holiday City University. 190.000 guest rooms already in occupancy, or soon to be occupied. The audio-visual department, preparing to meet these challenges, already has a Holiday City television facility moving well along. In addition, it is active in making the Holiday Inn's meeting facilities as nearly perfect as possible. The 1300 DuKane and LaBcUc sound filmstrip projectors used for training arc also available for external meeting use, A DaLite screen is available at every inn, along with chalkboards, lecterns and public address systems with extra microphones inputs for speakers. Standardized meeting facilities provide business leaders with a unique, fairly complete, dependable, and extremely convenient and economical site to schedule meetings. International needs have been met through the tapcd-sound filmstrip equipment present in every overseas establishment. By extremely simple electronic magic, the 190,000 television sets in each inn guestroom can receive videotaped packaged programming fed from the front desk through closed channels. The size of the Holiday Inn potential is reflected in the recent order for an additional 40,000 Motorola color television sets. These were acquired by Holiday headquarters' contract sales department to help complete the company's changeover from monochrome. Discussions are in progress for the sponsored use of this unique influential audience through videotaped programming. In addition, there are implications for EVR application throughout the domestic United States and Canadian segments of the system. Among other sight and sound tools, Holiday Inn uses this production, projection and reproduction equipment: ' 16 mm Grafflex mazda and arc projectors are in constant use for meetings and conventions. * Kodak Ektagraphic slide projectors serve that medium. '^ DuKane and LaBelle sound filmstrip equipment are described as "standards" for field training use and in local meeting rooms. * Spindler & Sauppe dissolve controls are used in all major meeting programming. * Kni-Tron Xenon arc slide projectors are also favored. * DaLite screens hang in nearly every inn meeting room. " The Ampli-Vox lectern is another "standard." * Shure 565-S and Model 330 mi crophones, plus Shure microphone mixers are also Audio-Visual Division favorites, along with AKG 202 mikes and EV 647 lawiliere types. The Turner 251 paging microphone is widely-used, backstopped by Rauland 35 amplifiers and lOW amplifiers (with mike mixer). University sound columns and Mcintosh "275" amplifiers crop up for conference and convention use. Altec and Bell portable speakers are used. CPE's large (9'xl2') rear screen is used at all headquarter meetings. ^AY, 1971 17