Business screen magazine (1938)

PLA([ TO LIV[ In Ni'w Yiiik I'njny living at llic SavnyPlaza, iiM'iiiiiikiii^ f'l'nlnil Park, when' vwxy r,iiinri)rl, is i-U'vcriy I'dnlrived lo inaki' your visit a nii'miiraiili' success. Fine slinps, ihcalri's and suiiway lu World's Fair nrarby. Plan now to make the Savoy-Plaza your headquaiteis during your visit to the New York World's Fair. 1 939, Heniy A. Host, Managing Director George Suter, Resident Manager FIFTH AVE • 58th TO 59th STS . NEW YORK ^L FILM FORUM A PAGE OF LETTERS FROM OUR READERS iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii»iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM Educating for Business We ha\c been playing with the idea of using moving picture sales efforts for one of our clients, a large middle western commercial college. We are coming to you as absolute novices so far as this type of selling is concerned, with the request that you refer our inquiry to some of your advertisers who you think might have a solution for us. We would like to show these pictures at arranged meetings which would include high school students in the various cities in our territory. We feel that the pictures should show the romance of industry and particularly should carrj' a theme where some .\uung person or group of young persons take up commercial training and follow it through to show the type of concerns for which they work, the tj'jje of work thej' do there, and some of the home life and other advantages that they gain through taking up this kind of work. It may be that some of your advertisers have already developed some films covering this type of material in a general way, that could be used here al.so. As I said, we have no idea what the cost of producing such film might be, so if there is some canned material on the market, it would perhaps be better or at least more within the reach of our clients to use such a film. Will you please refer this letter to some such advertiser as I have mentioned or possibly you would prefer to give us some of their names so that we might make it by direct? R. W. McPhebson Christiaiiscn-McPherson Adv. Agcy. Lincoln. Nebraska Wants Training Films Can you give me any information as to where I may get any existing "selling" films, which we could use in our organization to aid our salesmen? Can you tell me if these films can be rented, or if they must be purchased outright? Any information you can give me will be appreciated. Phyllis L. Noble Lincoln Oil Company Boston, Massachusetts Offers Slide Film On page eight of voiir recent issue, Mr. W. R. Blackle'r, Bureau of Business Education, California State Department of liducation, requests information on sales training films. We have a sound slide film which was created for the purpose of training salesmen of automobile dealers on the importance of the upholstery in their cars and a specific version of this film was made for the Pontiac Division which they distributed themselves to their field force. t^nelosed is a booklet entitled They Alivays Open the Door First which also is the title of the film and if you believe Mr. Blackler woidd be interested in this film, we will be very glad to lend it to him if you will give us his address. H. J. Ross L. C. Chase & Company New York, New York Safety Films Requested We are interested in getting in touch with someone who can give us a list j. of a source of supply of sound slide film strips. We are in the lumber manufacturing business and would want a film with some definite bearing on the safety subject. We are contemplating the purchase of an lUustravox machine and have secured one on approval and have also secured a film strip from the National Safety Council which is very interesting. If you have a list of available film strips we would thank you very much to send this to us. We hold regular safety meetings and arc interested in this kind of a program. R. A. Damrell Temple Lumber Company Pineland. Te.ras Cites Reference Value You may be interested to know that wc are planning in this State to make use of sales and product training films in our classes and conferences for workers in distributive occupations. As you may know, this program of training under the George-Deen Act is a cooperative effort of federal and state governments to provide vocational training of practical nature for workers engaged in distribution and sale of commodities and services. In this connection, may I say that we have found "Business Scri'en" a valuable reference source and feel that it should be made known to supervisors and teachers of distributive education throughout the country. W. R. BL.\rKLER Rcsearcli in Distributive Education Berkeley. Calijornia ♦ Letters addressed to the Screen Service Bureau of Business Screen requesting information, etc. are not published on this page but will be promptly ansiecred by qualified deparfmrnt authorities.