Business screen magazine (1959)

The TIROS Story: f^CONT'D FROM PAGE 27) engineers on proposed anTniation sequences. In early December, veteran producer Reid Ray brought camera and electrical crews to Princeton for location sequences in the RCA plant. Tests of TIROS components and assembly stages were photo.graphed; sounds of the weather satellite in orbit were recorded under actual test conditions. Each day. exposed film was rushed to Mo\iclah in Manhattan where the color negative was de\'eloped and printed; these tests were projected Is Your Film Scratched? Dirty? Brittle? Stained? Worn? Rainy? Damaged? Then why not try m m oocMr Specialists in the Science of FILM REJUVENATION RAPIDWELD Process for: • Scratch-Removal • Dirt • Abrasions • "Rain" rapid FILM TECHNIQUE 37-02A 27tli Street, Long Island City 1, N. Y. Fourded 1940 Send for Free Brochure. "Facta on Film Care" New Life For Old Film Long Life For New Film BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Audio-Visual Sales Manager Experienced in selling promotion-training programs to companies. \our responsibility includes formation and supervision of Audio-Visual Department. Remuneration open. Confidential. Send resume or letter In: William N. Kirshner, President W. Kirshner & Associates, Inc. Suite 4032, Board of Trade Bid. Chicago 4, Illinois on the following days in a nearby Heightstown theatre. Careful screening of the rush prints was essential since the film was to be used for 3.'imm widescreen theatre distribution; TV broadcasting and in 16mm. Composition of each scene had to be compatible to all three screen ratios. During the rest of December and well into January, work in the .-Vnimation Department at the Ray studios in St. Paul made steady progress. The picture was rough edited and the script finalized for recording under the direction of Barton Kreuzer and Morris Staton of the RCA engineering staff at Princeton. These two men were in charge of the TIROS project. On March 14 the actual launching date of TIROS was made known. Then work on the film had to be rushed to meet this advanced date. On March 24, editing by film editor Robert Winter under the supervision of Mr. Ray and RCA's Morris Staton cut the film to 16 minutes. A final cut to the required 14-minute length was made when Byron Morgan, film supervisor for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (for whom RCA made the film) came to St. Paul for a final approval session. With final length "frozen," music and sound effects were added and the final recording ■'mix" was made. On Sunday, March 27. editor Winter took the negative and sound track material under his arm and planed to New York to deliver the film to Movielab for an answer print. 72 hours later a 3.'imm color print was screened, in addition a black and white negative had been made from the color negative and 1 1 16mm prints were processed. These 1 6mm prints were locked in a lab vault, waiting word that the launch was a success. The 35mm color print was screened for approval by RCA officials at the Johnny Victor theatre in New York. When the success of the launch was announced early Friday, April 1 . . . the waiting prints were delivered to the waiting news services and commentators. Seventy-five additional 16mm color prints were then processed and delivered to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and RCA for further distribution. A similar effort, awaiting another major satellite launch, is currently being undertaken by American Telephone & Telegraph film producer LeRoy Vanderford, at presstime for Project Echo. R" "In Your Hands" for Southern Railway System When you have o story to tell, let Campus Films tell it — skillfully, dramatically, persuasively. Call br wrife Nat Campus, President — Campus Film Productions, inc. 20 East 46th Street • New York 17, N. Y. • Phone: MUrray Hill 2-8735 QUEENSWAY FILM STUDIOS 1640 THE QUEENSWAY TORONTO CANADA A DIVISION OF S. W. CALDWELL LTD^ J NUMBER 2 • VOLUME 21 19 6 0 4f