International projectionist (Jan 1963-June 1965)

H. H. Waggershauser, Kodak VP, Named To Director Post Herman H. Waggershauser. ar Eastman Kodak vice-president and general manager of the Apparatus & Optical Division, has been elected a director of the company. Waggershauser was elected at a meeting of the board of directors held today in Rochester, N. Y. He succeeds James E. McGhee, who i^ retiring from the board. The new director came to the company in 1933. For several years he was concerned with production and development work at the Camera Works in Rochester and later at Kodak A. G. in Stuttgart. Germany. He returned to the Camera Works in 1938 and from 1942 43 served as a process engineer in connection with military optical instruments produced by Kodak at the Hawk-Eye Works. He was appointed staff engineer at the Camera Works in 1943, assistant to the general superintendent of manufacturing in 1945. and superintendent of production engineering and tooling in 1948. In 1952 hebecame general superintendent of manufacturing at the Camera Works. When the Apparatus & Optical Division was formed in 1956. Waggershauser was named production manager. The Division includes three plants in Rochester — the Camera Works, the Hawk-Eye Works, and the Lincoln Plant. Waggershauser became assistant general manager of the A&O Division in 1958. In 1960 he was elected a vice-president of Eastman Kodak Company and appointed general manager of the A&O Division. He is president of the board of governors of Genesee Hospital, a director of the Rochester Y Athletic Club, a director of Eastman Savings and Loan Association, and a member of the executive committee of the Kodak Employees Asociation. He is also a member of the American Ordnance Association, the Photographic Society of America, and the Rochester Chamber of Com merce. Waggershauser received B. S. and M. S. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin. iP McGhee retired as vice-president in charge of U. S. sales and advertising in January 1, 1963. He had completed 42 years of Kodak service. He came to the company in 1920 and for the next six years served 12 with Kodak's medical sales division. He was transferred to the company's Chicago branch in 1927 and returned to the sales department in Rochester four years later. McGhee was appointed assistant general sales manager in 1935 and general sales manager of the company in 1937. He became an assis tant vice-president in 1943 and two years later was elected a vice-president. In 1954 he was placed in charge of U. S. sales and advertising. He was elected a director of Eastman Kodak Company in 1956 and in 1960 became a member of the r>ompany's executive committee, iP Todd-AO Announces New Licensing System A new licensing system for the use of TODD-AO, making it competitive with other 70mm processes, has been announced by Salah M. Hassanein. President of The Todd-AO Corpora tion. The institution of the policy per mitting the use of the Todd-AO system on a flat-fee basis marks the beginning of a new era for Todd-AO Todd-AO's perfection of quality and unlimited possibilities for realism and participation have been clearh established, demonstrated and universally accepted through many great motion pictures, including Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and South Pacific. Mike Todd's Around The World in 80 Days, and 20th Century Fox's Cleopatra araons others. In all of these films the process was licensed on a royalty basis. The process will now be available to those producers who have long desired Todd-AO quality at a competitive cost. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation is the first to take advantage of the new arrangement. Seymour Poe, Twentieth's Executive Vice President, has just signed a 5picture deal with Todd-AO which will include a multi-million dollar i'rray of motion pictures: The Sound of Music, The Agony & The Ecstacy, The Day Custer Fell , Magnificent Men & Their Flying Machines and Justine. iP New Mike For Motion Pictures, TV Shure Brothers, Inc., Evanston, 111., has announced a new unidirectional boom microphone especially ing. developed to uniquely satisfy the International Projectionist critical requirements of motion picture and television boom operation. The new microphone is available as the Model SM5A with an impedance of 50 ohms and the SM5B with an impedance of 150 ohms. It was especially developed by the Shure Professional Products Division to provide a new degree of reproduction quality and flexibility of application in television and motion picture studio and location work. Desk mounts are available as accessories for both SM5 models. This feature, plus the unit's unusual mechanical construction and performance characteristics, makes possible the SM5's use in many applications, such as coverage of outdoor sports and other difficult remote pickups, where boom operation is not practical. Demonstation of Dimension-150 Approximately 100 of Hollywood's top motion picture cameramen, members of The American Society of Cinematographers. participated in a full scale demonstration of the Dimension-150 filming and projection process at the D-150 theatre-laboratory in Santa Monica. The D-150 presentation at the company's Rosemary theatre-lab was arranged by Marshall Naify. president of D-150 Inc., and Roy Evans, sales manager, exclusively for A.S.C. members throuih that organization's president, Hal Mohr, and Walter Beyer, chairman of the Society's educational and scientific committee. Dr. Richard Vetter. executive vice president and co-developer of the Dimension-159 process, welcomed the group and briefly reviewed the background of the development and various technical aspects of the process. Also prior to the showing of the demonstration film Carl Williams, co-developer and vice president of D-150. spoke of his recently completed survey of theatres in more than 27 key cities in the U.S. Mr. Williams reported on his visit to the Dino De Laurentiis production locations shooting "The Bible" currently being filmed in D-150 in Rome under the direction of John Huston. The cinematographers expressed great interest and spoke enthusiastically about the demonstration. Many of those present participated in an intensive question and answer session following the demonstration screen iP November, 1964