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WEST CENTRAL STATES REGION
ILLINOIS
THE VENARD ORGANIZATION
1 113 Northeast .Madison Ave., Peoria, HI. I Phone: 674-2490
j Studio: Hijjhview Road. East Peoria, III. Phone: H99-4437
Date of Organization: 1917
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Venard
Services: Ag-ricultural specialists; personal attention to all production details, including research and scriptwriting. Distribution service on national or restricted basis. Facilities: Studio with 3200 sq. ft. sound stage; cameras, sound and editing equipment; camera car.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS AND SPONSORS
; Motion Pictures: Agri-Search \eics (AsbestosCement Products Assn.); Four Star Farmers -t I'.uiO (Keystone Steel & Wire Co.). (Only 1960 production references submitted.)
KANSAS
CENTRON CORPORATION, INC.
West Ninth at Avalon Road, Lawrence,
Kansas Phone: Viking 3-0400
Date of Organization: 1947
Arthur H. Wolf, President and Exec. Prod. Russell Mosser, Executive Vice-President
and Treasurer Charles Lacey, Vice-President & Secretary,
Director of Production Norman Stuewe. Vice-President and
Director of Photography Harold Harvey, Director Margaret Travis. Script Jerry Drake, Writer-Director Peter Schnitzler, Writer-Director Dan Palmquist, Editing Don Jessup, Sound Robert Rose. Photography Oscar Rojas, Art Director Alan Stewart, Manager, Agency & Public
Relations Division
Services: Motion pictures and slidefilms for ■ public relations, sales, training, education and 1 television, sales meetings. Subcontracting. Spe' cialized sports photography. Specialized color I and or black and white still assignments. AniI mation and recording service. Facilities: Newstudio and office facilities include 60' x 100' x 27' ^I'Lind stage, voice studios, editing rooms, sound iiiiims. etc.; Mitchell, Arriflex and Cine Special cameras; complete lighting and sound equipment f"i studio and location.
;RECENT PRODUCTIONS AND SPONSORS
Motion Picttres: .4 Case for Understanding ( American Hospital Assn.) ; // You Ask Me: X< ir Trop-Artic; Xeic FUte-Fuel; On the Drive^•-'t!i. and others (Phillips Petroleum Co.); S/'iiughoard (Fellowship of Christian Athletes): T I'-rlrc Month Summer (American Dehydrators A --;n.) ; Children of the Wagon Train ; From f'"irrr Plant to Home; The Compass, and others (McGraw-Hill Book Co.) ; Story of Light (United World Films). SLIDEFILMS: Quality Spelled With av E (Kansas State Teachers Assn.). Sales Meetings: National Sales Meeting— 1960 (Phil; lips Petroleum Co.).
For the BEST in Film Production Sources — Refer to These Review Pages in 1961
MINN ESOTA
THOS. COUNTRYMAN FILM PRODUCTIONS
15 North Ninth Street, Minneapolis 3, Minn. Phone: FFZderal 2-2539
Date of Organization: October, 1956 Date of Incorporation: March, 1959
Thomas C. Countryman, President & Producer Floyd A. Klang, Producer-Director Robert L. Edwards, Art Director
Services: Producers of industrial, educational. TV and religious motion pictures and filmstrips. 16mm or 35mm. Facilities: Sound stage, animation, Arriflex equipment; complete recording with four recorders, mixing, interlock projection, IGmm or 35mm; music library.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS AND SPONSORS
Motion Pictures; The Scarabs (Peter Hand Brewing); Chun King Divider Pak salesfilm (Chun King); Jet Engine Anti-Icing Test (General Electric) ; Carrier Launch (Winzen Research); Meadowdale (D. W. Onan & Sons, Inc.); Foley Tri-Moicer (Foley Mfg. Co.); Xational Truck Roadeo (Allstate Insurance). Slidefilms: Sorenco sales film; Out of Darkness; Voice of Authority; Safer Roads Now; Sign Maintenance (Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co.) ; Highway Department (State of Minnesota); Red Owl sales film; Safety Signs (Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co.. International Division). TV Commercials: for Larson Watercraft; Chun King; Dusharme; Doughboy Industries; Midland Cooperatives; Farmers' Union Cooperative; National Cooperatives; Hilex; Shaper Plastic Games; Javex Co. Ltd.; Montana-Dakota Utilities; Blue Cross-MII; Montgomery Ward Co.; Knipco; Old Dutch Potato Chips.
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EMPIRE PHOTOSOUND INCORPORATED
1920 Lyndale Ave. South, Minneapolis 5,
Minnesota Phone: FRanklin 4-5040
Date of Incorporation: October, 1945 William S. Yale, President
Richard N. Jamieson, Vice-President
& Production Director John Raddatz, Director of Cinematography
& Slidefilm Photography Arthur J. Nicol, Director of Technical
Services Gwen R. Wohlfeil, Director of Production
Services Frank Punchard, Manager, Editing Dept. Richard Singsaas, Roger Gruenke,
Sound Department
Services: Completely equipped production facilities for motion pictures, sound slidefilms, television commercials and sales meeting presentations. Time-lapse, slow motion equipment. Editing, and interlock projection. Tape and magnetic film recording, disc and tape music libraries. Process screen and arc rear projection. Facilities: Ifimm Maurer and Arriflex cameras; 16mm Eastman arc projector; Strong Arc projector for 3>4" X 4" slides and filmstrips; 8' x 10' x 20', 12' X 30' and 20' x 20' projection sci'eens, available for conventions, sales meetings, etc. Animation, sound recording studio; 40' x 60' sound stage; high fidelity public address system. RECENT PRODUCTIONS AND SPONSORS Motion Pictures: Progress in Esterhazy; Putting Sales i)i Orbit; What's In It For You; Phosphate — the Living Mineral, English & Spanish versions; Louis Ware 25th Anniversary
EMPIRE PHOTOSOUND: CONT'D. Commemorative Dinner (International Minerals & Chemical Corp.). Slidefilms: A Xew World of Living; Spotting Sales (Marquette Corp.) ; Magnesium, Major Plant Food; IMC Ambassadors European Holiday (International Minerals & Chemical Corp.). TV Programs: Alaska— The Neiv Frontier, series of 6 (National Education Television). Meetings: Management and Stockholders meeting programs (International Minerals & Chemical Corp.).
ANTHONY LANE FILM STUDIOS, INC.
7401 Wayzata Blvd., Minneapolis. .Minn. Phone: Liberty .i-2.il8
Date of Organization: 1946
Branch Oflices: 11 Broadway, New York, X. Y. Neill McCaffery. 11608 National Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. Paul A. Wurtzel. Manager.
Anthony Lane, President
William Heideman, Vice-Pres., Gen. Mgr.
Blaine Harstead. Secretary-Treasurer
H. O. Johnson, Recording
Linus Maurer, Art Director
Ernie Willette, Sales Manager
Services: Production of 16mm and 3.5mm industrial, TV, hunting & fishing entertainment films, sound slidefilms, audio visual presentations, sales meetings, recording, art services, animation. Facilities : Complete 16mm and 3.5mm production facilities, sound recording, complete still photographic studios and laboratories, music and sound effect libraries; animation and art departments; sound slidefilm production.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS AND SPONSORS
Motion Pictures: Black Ducks Along the Border; Walleye Wonderland; Better Boating; Wings on Your Feet (Park Lane Enterprises) ; The Forgotten River (Minnesota River Rec. Development Assn.) ; Power for Tomorrote (Atomic Energy Commission) ; United Giving Makes Sense (United Fund). Slidefilms: How to Cut Overhead Underfoot (Advance Machine Co.) ; 18 untitled sales promotion (Minnesota Mining & Mfg.). TV Commercials: for Schaper Plastic Games (Mullen & Assoc, Adv.); Variety Supply Co.
PROMOTIONAL FILMS, INC.
1313 Cambridge St., Hopkins, Minn. Phone: WE .i-2777 (Minneapolis)
Date of incorporation: 1955
Alfred K. Peterson, President &
Production Manager Cliff R. Sakry, Sales Manager & Creative
Director Cap Lund, Production Assistant
Services: Producers of business, industrial, travel, agricultural, public relations, outdoor, animation, color and b&w motion pictures and slidefilms; TV commercials; original musical TV iingles and film music composition. Facilities: Scripting, photography, art, animation, sound and still cameras, film and sound editing, film music library, original musical effects and film underscores, complete sound recording, mixing, conforming and interlock.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS AND SPONSORS
Motion Pictures: A School of Bass (Theo. Hamm Brewing Co.); Aqiia Folly (Red Wing Shoe Co.); GRACO's Big Cleanup; GRACO Helps a Railroad (The Gray Co.); Raking in the Profits (The Farmhand Co.). Slidefilms: GRACO Hydra-Cat; Operation Cleanup (The Gray Co.); Believing Is Seeing (Minneapolis Society for the Blind). TV Commercials & Animatio.n : for various clients.
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