Business screen magazine (1946)

meetings & seminars 1 NAVA — Cincinnati I'hc N.ilional Auilu>-Visii;il AssiKJalion drew a goiKl-si/.eil and active crowd of dealers, nianufaclurers, educational and industrial users, as usual. to its annual convention, this year in Cincinnati. Displays from over Z.SO companies almosi filled the exhibit area, although mans of the larger and more elaborate exhibits of previous years seemed to have diminished in size, reflecting a general tightening of the belt throughout the industry. Very little that was radically new was on display. In fact, drawing almost as much attention as the equipment in the exhibit hall was Fastman Kixiak's proioi\pc of a new Super 8 sound projector shown, supposedly still under wraps, in a Cincinnati hotel room. With a low profile and attractive wooden base, the portable cartridge-load projector will be sure to stir up a great deal of interest when it reaches the market, prob.iblv late in 1971 or early 1972. Dozens of new exhibits for programmers, faders. dissolves and multiprojector stands reflected the definite trend to increased utilization of multimedia equipment, by all phases of A-V users. Robert P. Abrams, Chairman, Industry & Busmess Council The regular meetings of the Industry and Business Council and the Audio-Visual .Systems Council were filleil to standing room capacity, indicating a growing awareness amongst dealers that their (ulure sales efforts must have a broader approach than just to the local schotil systems. Such leading industrial dealers as Hal (iusofsky of Colorado Visual Aids. Denver, and Douglas Nichols, of Newman Visual Education, Ciranil Rapids, Mich, aroused much interest by their accounts of the right way to reach and sell the industrial buyer. At a meeting of the NAVA Kquipment Manufacturers Council, it was apparent that some exhibitors will find It dilliculi to mount exhibits at the two conventions NAVA plans for the fiscal year I972-197.T (July '72 in Kans;is City and January '73 in Houston I, One manufacturer calculated his NAVA convention participation expense at over S2(),(MK). and warned that if two shows were planned in one fiscal year, something would have to give: smaller exhibits, or skip a show. However, the Association's budget is sorely pressed: 40 percent of its income comes from the Convention and 1-xhibit, so the two shows in a sixmonth proximity are considered to he .1 vital necessity. A new slate of officers was elected at the Convention, including Chairman of the Board. Alan P. Twyman, Dayton, Ohio; President, Boggs E, Huff, Nashville, Tenn,: First Vice President. Robert R. Hiller. Chicago; Second Vice President. Matt Dowling. Oklahoma City; Treasurer. Malcolm P. Lowing. Jackson. Miss.; and Secretary. W. James Orlh. Des Moines. SMPTE-MPL— Memphis One of the major audio-visual events in the South each year is the annual July meeting of the Nashville section of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, hosted hv Motion Picture Laboratories. Inc.. of Memphis, in co-sponsorship, this year, with the Audio-Visual Department of Memphis State University. Almost 200 industry, education and rV producers from all over the MidSouth gathered at the beautiful new Memphis State University Center Auditorium for a full day's schedule of talks and demonstrations by such authorities as Jack Behrend. of Behrend's Inc.. Chicago, on new production equipment; Bruce Jamieson. of Jamieson Film Company. Dallas, on new production techniques with reversal masters; Ed (iarrigues. Director of Cinematographs at South Carolina F,duc;itional Teles ision Netsvork. Columbia, on post-production fogging of I ktachrome; Sid O'Bcrry. Technical Director of Audio-Visual at Regional Medical Center, Nashville, on Super \f>: Peter Ildau of Arriflex on the new Arri camer;is. recorders and projectors; Alan Slensvold. HollywtxHl photographic ilireclor. on modern cinematogr.iphy; Torn Hope, of Hope Reports. RiK-hester. N.Y.. on visual comiiuinic.ilions statistics; and Stan Sobel. Nesv York free-lance svriter and Contributing Editor of Bisinpss St RF.i N, on the value of scripts in film preparation and production. Speaking lor the hosts and demonstrating new methinJs with new film stocks wcrt Frank McCieary, Blaine Baker ant Jim Solomon of MPI., vhiU Tom Hope's preliminars ligures ol his new Hope Reports for 797/ con J firmed that industrial films, had, inu deed, taken a beating in 1970. Accord^ ing to his figures, industrial filr production was off 10 percent, will in-plant production about even, wh independent producers' output fell percent, from 2800 titles in 1969 2000 last year. Other statistics mentioned by Hop I (svho gave a similar digest of his findj ings to NAVA's Industry and Busir Council a week previously) were tha the visual communications field as svhole was off one percent for thJ year — the first dip since 19.'!S. HopBi estimates 1970's volume for the A> industry at SI ,074.()00.()00 for bare svare and software, svith another : 000.000 for salaries and other adminii Irative expenses within the industr>\ Some significant gains were note hosveser: Super 8 projector sales werf up M) percent, svhile multi-media pre: gramming devices were up a svhoppin 47 percent. Videotape recorder equif ment sales dropped 24 percent, mc of svhich can be attributed to a d< cided fall-off in educational \i^ caused by stringent school budgets. Hope said that from his analysis the statistics, it liMks like the pendi lum svill nosv ssving strongis to greatl increased A-\' use by industry durir the coming decade — enough so thi he forecasts expenditures for educt tion and training by industry an government to reach a parity wil education in schools by 1980-amounting to something like S70 bi lion annualK. and .i lot of this wi go into meilia. Sony — New York I he hig nesss .it Sons Corporation America's Prc.vs Seminar. June .10 Nesv York, is that the company is day mass-prixlucing its color Vid 30 BUSINESS SORE