International projectionist (Jan 1959-Dec 1960)

main contention being that they should not be penalized because of the methods employed to exploit "foreign" films of the Bridget Bardot type. • PERPETUITY: Morris J. Rotker, past-president of the 25-30 Club and retired member of New York Local 306, was re-elected treasurer of Masonic Lodge Samaritan No. 1035 for the 22nd consecutive year! Rotker now graces the upper echelon of legal circles in New York City, having been appointed confidential secretary to the Hon. James W. Donoghue, justice of the Municipal Court, Second District, Bronx, N. Y. • In an area designated Kings County (an area of N. Y. City approximating broadly Chicago's North Side) is a fellow named Harry Garfman who annually plays Santa Claus for the handicapped children patients of St. Giles, Beth-El and other hospitals in that borough. Of course, these endeavors are aided immeasurably by the all-out support of the Movie Social Club of Kings County, whose members are affiliated with New York Local 306. Garfman, incidentally, is the Local 306 business representative for both Kings and Queens counties. • George Friedl, well-known in the professional sound projection field by reason of his association some years back with General Precision Equipment Corp. (Simplex projectors and sound systems), is now a vice-president of Litton Industries, Beverly Hills, Calif., in charge of the Electronic Equipments Division. Litton recently acquired Westrex Corp. RCA has utilized a new device, Compressed Air Loudspeaker, to make what it calls world's loudest noise. Unit, now in developmental stage, will be used in testing vibration and sound — sensitive (both structurally and in performance) electronic parts for jet planes, missiles, rockets. CAL generates noise at 160 decibels (20,000 times louder than a TV set at top volume), may be able to throw human voice 10 miles or more. • • • Flash Photolysis will be employed in AEC — sponsored program at Illinois Institute of Technology to study basic processes by which light energy is transferred and used in liquids, solids. In experimental photolysis method, studied substances are irradiated with short light flash equivalent to 50 million watts to measure split-second changes in optical absorption spectra. Materials to be investigated are dyes which fluoresce when illuminated; certain inorganic crystals which color intensely when irradiated with Xrays. BalCOLO Reflectors Super Cinephor Projection Lenses CinemaScope Lenses Reverse CinemaScope Lenses SEE THE BIG DIFFERENCE! FREE DEMONSTRATION! MAIL COUPON TODAY! Academy of Motion Pictui Honorary Award for Optic ; Arts and Sciences j| Service to the Industry HERE'S THE WAY TO BEAT TV! . . . and only B&L gives you the complete system to do It! How to get people off their divans and into your theatre? Give them movie thrills they can never get, for free or for fee, on TV. Larger-thanlife pictures, so vivid, so easy to enjoy that your patrons can't be satisfied with anything less. That's where B&L image quality enters your profit picture. Because only B&L gives you a complete, balanced optical system— BalCOLD reflector, Super Cinephor lens, CinemaScope lens— all perfectly matched to fill the screen with today's clearest, sharpest pictures. Today, it's B&L all the way. Most of the movies you show are filmed with B&L lenses. To show them at their best, more and more indoor and drive-in theatres are standardizing on B&L projection optical systems. It'll pay you to find out why. BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. 61637 St. Paul Street, Rochester 2, N. Please demonstrate items checked Send literature on items checked □ BalCOLD □ SuperCinephor □ CinemaScope □ Reverse CinemaScope BAUSCH 6 LOMB Name Theatre, Address. City My Dealer is .Zone State. J INTERNATIONAL PROJECTIONIST JANUARY 1959 17