Business screen magazine (1946)

newsreel REPORTS ON CURRENT EVENTS AND TRENDS Eastman Kodak Unveils New Marketing Education Center A new UiO.lHlO square fix>t Markctini; Hilucation Center, comprising lour huildmgs. has been opened by Mastman Kodak Co. at Henrietta, N.Y.. a RiK-hesier suburb. The Center is expected to tram abtnit 16,000 customers, dealers and company sales and technical personnel during l'>71 in the usj. sales and servicing of Kodak products. A permanent administrative and training staff of 200 will serve in the new complex. Audio-visual facilities are extensi\e. with batteries of motion picture and slide projectors automatic.dh controlled from a lectern. A motion picture studio has complete facilities for almost any kind of production. Laboratory technicians will be trained in Kodak ME-4 and ECO-3 processing workshops. Several hundred cinematographers and lab technicians are expected to be trained at MEC each year. Sponsored Film Research Institute Opens This Month A national mslilute devoted to slud\ of the sponsored film in America will be held at Cieorge Eastman House in Rochester from July 25 to 28. Intended for representatives of tilm sponsoring and production agencies. the National Institute of Film and Social Response will "articulate principles and procedures underlying creation of effective films which are intended to inform, persuade and energize." liirector is A. William Blueni. I'rolessor of Media Critical Studies at Syracuse University. Staff members include professors in communications and cinema at other leading educational institutions. Ampex Instavideo Cartridge Meets EIAJ Standard Ampex Corp. has announced that ils Instavideo system designed for education, industry, gmernment anil medicine will meet I'lAJ (Japanese Electrical Industryl stanilards. making it compatible with several other recently announceil viileo c.irlridge systems. Instavideo will be battery or current operated. Designed by Ampex, manufacture will be by TOAMCO an Ampex-Toshiba joint venture in Japan. Oelivery target: late I '^7 1. 10 Arrifiex Delivers $200,000 Order to F&B/Ceco \-Wi Ceco, a large piolessional nn>iion picture equipment dealer with stores in New York. Florida and California, has purchased .17 new Arrifiex cameras for its rental department. The new equipment will join I ."^O Arris alreatly on hand at F&B. Acquisitions and Mergers: Consolidati-il l-'ilin Industries, Mollv wood. h.is .icquired .\enic \ idcotape l.abi)r.it<irivs. giving CFI full capabilities in both tilm and tape image recording and reproduction. Repiihlie Corporation and (ilcn Glenn .Sound C(»mpan\. Hollywood, have agreed in principle on the acquisition b\ Republic of Cilcn Cilenn. Teelinieolor, Inc., Hollywood, and Moviclab, Inc., New York, have agreed in principle to merge. Camera Mart. Inc., New York, has acquired .Sta^e 54 \\cst, a large sound stage facility in the heart of New York's film production area. Fifty Producers at CFI Seminar An Advanced lechniques Film Seminar for non-theatrical film producers, the fifth in a series, attracted a lull house at Consolidated Film Industries just prior to the recent SMPTE Convention in Los Angeles. The seminar staff included such leading technical men as sound recording expert Loren Ryder, cinematographer Charles Ci. Clarke, producer Laurence Mascott. ei.liti>r Frederick W. Berger, music specialist Jack Meakin and ( Fl department heads Jerry McMinn. i:)ale Tate. Robert W. Casey, led Fogelman and president Sidney Solow. Openings will soon be announced for future Advanced Techniques Film Seminars. Audio-Visual Training School A new training school for Audio-Visual Technicians will be set up early this summer at Hutchinson Area Vocational Technic.d School. Hutchinson. Minn I he school, to lie .idmimsiereil b\ Douglas Hedin. formerlv of Hai court Brace Jovanovich. will offer a twoyear course preparing students for repair and maintenance of audio-visual equipment in industrial concerns and educational institutions. Fifty Million See Firestone Films in 1970 Ten Firestone 1 ire \ Riibl>er Co. fil reached fifty million viewers last yc This brings the total audience films in the past ten years to .175 n lion. The most popular film was f hvi-ry Wheel Thai Rolls with 78 telecasts and group showings. Short Takes: lloiivnood \alk-> I'Mm I.ahs is m a west coast representative for Vl uumate Film Protective Treatment a NO-EN Treatment . . . Anipcx Coi is delivering $40,000 worth of oi inch helical scan \'TR equipment Combined Insurance Co of .•Xmerii Chicago . . . Consolidated lilni Indi tries, Hollywood, and Bcbell Col I^bs. New York, are both now offt ing silver sound track service on Eki chrome Type 7.1S9 16mm release fii . . . Consolidated Video .Systems Y been established to produce equipmc employing thermal transfer duplicate of videotape. SI i Moves: .Modern lalklnc Picture Service h nH>ved Us general oft ices to 4 NeviM Drive. Lake Success. N.Y.. a N( York suburb. Executive and sales C fices will remain at 1212 Avenue the Americas. New York. The mc will provide space for expansion ai development of an on-line comput booking system for the entire countr Consolidated Film Industries h openeil oil ices .it .^40 Madison Avi New York, and at .1.1.1 North Mid gan. Chicago. KF.M Electronic Mechanic Coq ^^_ has moved to new spacious quartc ...' at 2.S.^ Park Ave.. South. New York .;. Manhattan Sound Studios h , opened ■ Uie Pad' at 17 1 asi 45th S ^^ New York, a mixing studio with mai ' interesting innovations, incliuling a sp cial slide and motion picture film cha permitting mixing from a large scre> TV set. Charles Fuller Productions, lamp I lot id. I. h.is cli'sed Its lixed b.ise stud ,ind moveil into .i 12-loot highw.iy bt with complete Kmim produciii>n fact ities incliuling sv n^: interliKk 1 he con panv also i>per.ites a videol.ipe mobi van. Both can be rolled up to tt client's door during proiliiciion o|>cr tions. BUSINESS SCREE!