International projectionist (Jan 1963-June 1965)

LBJ Hosts As Kodak Receives Award For Foreign Success President Johnson presented Eastman Kodak Company with an Export "E" Award recently at the White House. W illiam S. Vaughn, president and chief executive officer of the cornpan), accepted the award in Washington at a special ceremony sponsored hy the Department of Commerce to mark the 500th "E" Ward presentation. Kodak received the award for "success in export markets." Principally due to higher export sales. Kodak has earned a total of almost $500 million in foreign exchange for the United States during the past five years, a report indicated. That sum represents the amount l>\ which Kodak receipts from abroad exceeded expenditures for imports, additional dollar investments in foreign subsidiary companies, and dividend and royaltv payments to foreigners. Sales to export dealers and to Kodak associate companies outside the United States during L963 totaled 1 1 10.2 million, about 1<> percent higher than those recorded in the preceding year. Exports accounted for about 13 percent of the company's total sales in L963, compared M itli 12 percent in L962. A report submitted l>\ the company at the request of the Department of Commerce indicates that Kodak's exports increased $45.7 million or 56 percent from 1957-62. In that same interval, total I*. S. exports of merchandise increased 6 percent and total U. S. gross national product rose 25 percent. iP Stodter Retires; SMPTE Names Bernhard to Post Lewis A. Bernhard. Jr.. has been named executive secretary of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers i SMPTE I. He succeeds Col. Charles S. Stodter. who is retiring after serving the Society since L956. Bernh a r d comes to SMPTE from the Society, of Plastics Engineers, where he had been administrative manager L955. During liis nine years the plastics society, Bernhard saw membership triple in number. Mr. Bernhard, in addition to membership promotion, was responsible for publications promotion, technical conference management and business affairs of the plastics group. A native and resident of Stamford, Conn.. Mr. Bernhard holds a degree in chemistry and business administration from r ordham University. Before entering Fordham. he served as a Nuv v petty officer first class during World War II. Mr. Bernhard was employed as laboratory chemist at St. Joseph's Hospital in Stamford and in the quality-control department of Mach American Theatre Bernhard since with Charles W. Wainvvright, Local -55, I.A.T.S.E., is shown threading up for the first show after the recent installation of new Strong Futura projection arc Limps at the American Theatre, Roanoke, Virginia. lett Laboratories. Springdale. Conn., before joining the Society of Plastics Engineers. The retiring SMPTE executive secretary. Col. Stodter, retired in 10.5 1 after a 30-year Army career, the last four years of which he served as chief of the Army Pictorial Service. Following his retirement from the Army. Col. Stodter was engaged in communications research at the University of Pennsylvania. SMPTE. founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, is a professional organization of engineers and executives in the fields of motion pictures, television, photoinstrumentation and high speed photography. iP The gallery features groupings of period furniture and authentic wall hangings. International Projectionist August, 1964 The brilliance of the Technikote screen is apparent in this view from the rear of the auditorium.