Business screen magazine (1938)

NEW PUBLICATIONS Copies of which may be obtained, without any obligation, simply by addressing the Screen Service Bureau of this magazine at 20 North Wocker Drive, Chicago and attaching your letterhead or card to a clipping of this column. REEL NEWS, a tabloid newsmagazine published by Wilding Picture Productions, 7635 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Michigan contains interesting informational material on films in production. PLEASE FORWARD THE ABOVE TO ME D INDUSTRIAL SERVICE LETTER, a monthly publication issued by the DeVry Corporation, 1111 West Armitoge Avenue in Chicago offers helpful personalized pointers on the use, distribution, etc. of your industrial films. Sent on request to executives. i — i PLEASE FORWARD THE ABOVE TO HE I I WE SECOND THE MOTION, is a wellillustrated 36-page book of "pointers and suggestions for those who produce their own business motion pictures" and is issued by Burton Holmes Films, Inc. at 7510 North Ashland Avenue, Chicago. Sent to interested firms and individuals upon written request. PLEASE FORWARD THE ABOVE TO ME I I VICTOR ANIMATOGRAPH COMPANY of Davenport, Iowa publishes an interesting catalog of modern 16mm. projection equipment which contains much helpful information. A film directory is also published annually by this well known equipment concern. Address them directly or write our Screen Service Bureau for equipment catalog material. PLEASE FORWARD THE ABOVE TO ME I I PROCEEDINGS of 8th SESSION, National Conference on Visual Education and Yearbook on Visual Education. An authoritative document containing the speeches and proceedings of the 1938 Conference in Chicago and a yearbook section containing valuable data on recent developments in the audiovisual education field. Circa 130 pages, bound in heavy cover stock and priced at 50c a copy. Address the National Conference of Visual Education at 1111 West Armitoge Ave., Chicago. i — i PLEASE FORWARD THE ABOVE TO ME I I EDUCATIONAL FILM CATALOG published by H. W. Wilson Company of New York with periodical supplements contains listings of pictures released for educational distribution. This splendid record contains accurate and fairly complete records of films in this field. Address the H. W. Wilson Company, 950 University Avenue, New York City. PLEASE FORWARD THE ABOVE TO ME I I Mail this with Card or Letterhead to SCREEN SERVICE BUREAU 20 NORTH WACKER DRIVE CHICAGO Close-ups and Long Shots ^THE NEWS REVUE OF THE BUSINESS FILM WORLD (Continued jrom Page 6) ♦ One of the significant statements of the month is contained in this excerpt from the recent report of President Hutchins of The University of Chicago, which under the heading of "New Developments" calls particular attention to the progressive work being done on the University's extensive fihn program. The statement is an ideal summing-up of the University's progress in this direction. "In 19.'52 the University entered upon tho production of educational sound pictures with Erpi Picture Consultants, a subsidiary of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Twenty-eight pictures have now been made; two more arc in production. They are used in schools and colleges all over the country, and are a regular part of the instruction in our own general courses. The University has made a valiudile contribution to the development of new methods of teaching and one which is certain to be more and more important as a complete film library is built up. The saving of time, money, and effort; the improvement in instruction which the pictures make possible; and their effectiveness as teaching devices all point to widespread use of this medium at all levels of education." i' i! ir ♦ The new $'250,000 plant of Cinecolor is now being built in Burbank. California near the Warner Brothers studio. The two story building will have '24.000 square feet of fioor .space and facilities to handle a million feet of film weekly. A. .J. McCormiek is president; Howard C. Brown, vice-president of the concern. ■& & * ♦ Ted Eshbaugh Studios, Inc.. ,S5 AYest ■i.5th Street, New York Citv. announce that William YDU may be the man we want . . . If you are a contact man of executive stomp and advertising account executive type, experienced in commercial motion pictures and slidefilm sales training programs — and capable of meeting on an equal footing executives of large companies, a letter telling WHY you are the man we wont may lead to on adequate straight-salaried position with a large producer. Appearance must convey impression of forceful maturity. Man of large stature preferred. Send photograph and complete details about yourself. Our organization knows of this ad. Box 23 Business Screen Magazine. Russell, N. B. C. baritone, has been engaged as narrator for a series of commercial animated cartoons for the Aetna Life Insurance Company and the National Carbon Company. i: ii i! ♦ Something new in commercial film production will be released shortly liy Caravel Films of New York. A world-famed troupe of puppets have been cast as the principal stars of a new film series for a national accoimt and some entirely fresh and original effects are the pleasing result. •ft * * ♦ A last-minute news release received from Electrical Research Products, Inc.. announces the perfection of a new 10mm. sound film recorder which is now ready for the industrial and educational film market. ♦ In its eighth session the National Conference on Visual Education and Film Exhibition drew a gathering of over (idO enrollees. Outstanding visual educators, motion picture executives, industrial film producers, and representatives of various commercial organizations using motion pictures met June ^20 to 23 inclusive, Chicago, to view the latest educational and commercial film releases. Among the films exhibited were: German North Sea Coast by Fred Semb of the German Railroads, Chicago; Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.'s Remember Jimmy; DeVry School Films; Social Security Board's Today's Frontiers: WPA's films Hands and TIV Work Again: International Harvester Co.'s Modern Education at Beaverton Consolidated Schools: BordcnWieland's The 80 Years: World's Peaceways, Thunder Over the Orient: Ford Motor Co.'s Making Safety Glass and Yellowstone Xational Park: and a large number of other films of the government documentary, advertising, training, and classroom study types. Sessions were devoted to open-forum discussions conducted by such authorities as Dr. I. E. Deer of the MPPDA on "Hunuin Relations Films"; A. P. Heflin of Lane Technical High School on "Movie School Protluctiou Problems"; Stuart Grant of Pure Oil Co. on "Laboratory Problems in Film Production"; L. W. Cochran of the State University of Iowa on "School Distrilmtion and School-made Films"; Wm. E. Morse. Co. Snpt. of Schools. ^lalad, Idaho ou "The County System of Film Distribution"; O. H. Coelln, Jr., editorial director of Business Screen on "The Correlation of Educational Films and Industrial Problems": and George Rilling, Supt. of Schools, .Vnna. Ohio ou "School Films". 46