Business screen magazine (1946)

newsreel REPORTS ON CURRENT EVENTS AND TRENDS FCC OKs Motorola EVR llic Icilcriil C'onitnumc.nions Commissiun has grunicil .\tolori)la Systems, Inc. a waiver to resume shipment of the Motorola EVR Teleplayer units. After extensive testing, the commission staled that the Motorola unit meets technical radiancL interference standards proposed by the FCC. I.loyd Singer, vice president of Motorola, termed the FCC action "the last hurdle that needed to he cleareil before full-scale marketing." Motorola had initiated the dialogue with the FCC. "We have been working closely with the FCC for more than a year." Singer said, "and while suffering some delay in marketing as a result of being the first cassette TV manufacturer to formally request the FCC to establish parameters for cassette TV. we feel that we have helped bla/e the trail for the entire industry. The FCC has been most cooperative in their assessment of this totally new product." Lab X's Out "X" Films Skin tlicks arc out at Holl>wot)d Valley F-'ilm I.ab. The lab. which began handling "girlie" films about 20 years ago (which were quite tame by today's standards), announced recently that the new stuff was so bad th.it ii "could not continue processing such material and feel an\ sense i>f dignilv." The ban will result in an immediate one-third reduction in business volume. However, the firm expects to make up the loss through expanded volume in other areas such as educational and industrial films. New Assistants Join Directors Guild The Directors duild of America-Producers Training Program has graduated the first group of trainees into the (luild as motion picture film 2nd Assislani Directors. Harold Klein, Ailministraiivc Trustee, reports that nine applicants have completed a two year jt)b training and seminar program. The program came about as a result of a collective bargaining agreement negotiated three years ago between the film Producers Association of Njw York and the Directors (mild of America. Applicants to the program are siibjecl lo written and oral testing by the Princeton Associates for Human Resources, which determines the applicants qualified tor (raining. Suc cessful trainees are placed with television commercial, feature film, industrial film and documentary production ct>mpanies who pay them a weekly wage from SI 25 to $\75. At the conclusion of the program, the trainees are automatically accepted into the D.Ci.A. as 2nd Assistant Directors. In addition to the nine who have graduated, there are eleven trainees currently training in the program. Ross Steps Aside as Atnerican TV Festivals Director Wallace A. Ross, President of TTie American TV Commercials Festival, Inc.. has granted rights to operate the 1972 Clio Award competitions for Radio, Television, and Print advertising to William N. Evans, until recently Executive Vice President of the festival corporation. Evans will conduct the awards competitions as in the past twelve years. However, it will be independent of any participation by the festival's founder. WALLACE A. ROSS rhe transfer of management luKills Ross' intention of "stepping aside" as director of competitions, as announced by him in the awards journal that was distributeil at the last festival on June 7th at Philharmonic Hall, New York. A valedictory statement in the )ourn,il challenged the advertising uulustrv "to slop shillyshallv ing ,irouiul .ind get together in the sponsorship of one meaningful annual awards system." During the coming year, under the auspices of his International 'lA' Com ^ mercials Study Foundation and in conjunction with several of the organized advertising trade associations, Rost plans to concentrate on the educational roll that has been more and more a part of his personal activity during the past few years — speaking to advertising, civic, college and school groups, completing a third volume of "Best TV tV: Radio Commercials", and organizing seminars and workshops, with three specific workshops already planned for South America, Europe and the Far East. A column on TV commercials in one of thji major consumer magazines and activ^ participation in the advertising agency business are also under discussion this time. Getting Ready for Mao and Chou The East Is Red. national anthem of the Red Chinese, is among the complete collection of national anthems now available from Thomas J. Valentino, Inc. The new anthem collection and two additional hours of more contemporary material will be part of the growing library of music for films (75 hours now catalogued) at Valentino's expanded offices at l.^l West 46th Street. New York. EVS Color Center Discontinues Operations l{leciri>graphic C\>rporaiion has discontinued the operation of its EVS Color Center at 62nd Street, New York. According to William Fermin, Prc»» ident. the lab would have required a substantial investment in wet lab equipment to bring it up lo competitive standards. lilectrographic now intends to continue its expansion in the videotape finishing and distribution area Instavideo Pro-Production Engineering Delays .•\mpe\ Corporation has deferred pro duction on its Instavideo carlridg video recording system by sever months. In addition, the company assessing FCC regulations regardil||l radiation interference. Rich.ird J. I'lkus. Jr.. general man«j ager of the Ampex educational ar industrial products division, said th conipany now expects first producj tion deliveries in the spring of I*)?! eoniiniie on pane 1^ 12 BUSINESS SCREE