Business screen magazine (1958)

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The high powered projector with 1200-watt capacity combined with the high powered auditorium sound unit produces large, brilliant pictures and fills any auditorium with .sound. Entire combination packs into two compact, attractive carrying cases. There's a DuKane sound slidefilm projector especially made to bring your message to any audience, from one to thousands! DuKane's top quality and rugged dependability give you sparkling pictures and bell-clear sound, now and for many years of hard use. Simple to operate, even by inexperienced personnel. For a demonstration in your own office, send in the coupon. CORPORATION DuKane Corporation, Dept. BS-llS. St. Charles, Illinois I am inlfroatod in Icarninj; moro about DuKanr sound .slidefiln' projectors, particularly □ thf Fliptop Q Ih'' MiiTomatu n the Auditorium Comljination NA ME CO.\fPANYADDRESS— CITY DUKANE products are sold and serviced by a nation-wide networl< of audio-visual experts Frederick K. Rockett Dies; A Pioneer in Business Films 'A Frederick K. Rockett. a pioneer producer of business films and for many years a leader in industry activities in the West Coast area. died of a heart attack October 1 at the age of 74 years. As president of Frederick K. Rockett Company, Hollywood, Mr. Rockett was approaching his thirty-fourth year in the business film field. Motion pictures produced under his supervision have won many outstanding awards, among them two First Awards at the Venice Film Festival and three First Awards at the Cleveland Film Festival. During his long career as a producer of business films, Mr. Rockett served many of the foremost industrial firms in the country as well as government agencies. Among the company's recent clients were Richtield Oil Corporation. Weirton Steel Company, Kaiser Steel Corporation, PhelpsDodge Corporation, American Automobile Association, U. S. Navy. U. S. Air Force, E. K. Williams Company, Stewart-Warner Corporation, Nesbit Fruit Products, Sinclair Oil Corporation, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, and American China Guild. Born in Bridgeport. Conn., on March 31. 1884. Mr. Rockett had been a resident of Los Angeles since 1918. Surviving him are his widow, Florence J.; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Hodges, and three grandsons. Funeral services were held October 4, with burial in Inglewood Park Cemetery. Mr. Rockett was a 32nd Degree Mason and an active member of Blue Lodge. Scottish Rite. San Fernando Valley Shrine Club and Beverly Hills Shrine Club. Activities of the Frederick K. Rockett Company in the business motion picture field will be continued along the same high standards that were set by its founder, under the direction of Alfred Higgins. » PARTHENON PICTURES Documentary Films for Business New Releases: •THREE FOR TOMORROW" — ; The pleasant romance of Mac ' Mackendall and wife Marty background the quest of three young college men for their "Tomorrow" in a young and growing industry with its future ahead of it — and which they find in the hundred-year-young oil industry. American Petroleum Institute. 29 min. 85mm and 16mm. "HORIZONS BEYOND" — "The world of the scientist, once mysterious and remote, is now coming close to the daily lives of all of us". . . as demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories' development of the transistor, and over-the-horizon microwave transmission of telephone and television. AT&T. Color. 12 minutes. .35 and 16mm. "FIRE AND THE WHEEL" — "We fuel the one and lubricate the other: you can't get much more basic than that." The pictorial study of oil, from drill to hose, worldwide. General Petroleum, Magnolia. Socony Mobil. Color. 25 minutes. "COLLECTORS' ITEM" — The surprisingly dramatic story of a group of public servants and their unsung role in the struggle against air pollution. International Harvester. Color. 32 minutes* * ^ TECH FILMS DIVISION "PACKAGED POWER" — A straightforward sales film presenting the personnel, facilities and industrial philosophy of a missile accessory contractor. Sundstrand Turbo. Ektachrome. 22 minutes. I Parthenon works for the following clients: Am. Petroleum Inst. Am. Tel. & Tel. Co. The Borden Company Connecticut General Life Convair (Gen. Dynamics) General Petroleum Corp. Hilton Hotels International Harvester Kaiser Aluminum Socony Mobil Oil Co. Western Electric Co. Sundstrand Machine Tool Parthenon makes no television commercials. The business film schedule is confined to those projects which can be handled personally and with quality by the key staff. PARTHENON PICTURES Charles Palnner, Eicecu+lve Producer 2625 Temple St. • Hollywood 26 BUSINESS SCREEN MAGAZINE