Business screen magazine (1961)

t:WS OF CHAPTER ACTIVITIES tRTHERN CALIFORNIA Ittend First Meeting at ejo: Hear Talk by Kerr he first regular meeting of the hern California chapter was t at Terry's Restaurant in Ipjo. February 8th. Fifty menit and guests attended the meet!at which new officers were i.ed. The 1962-63 officers are: i.rnian. Mitchell S. Rose. ujet-General Corp.; SecretaryBsurer. Ed Carroll. Southern Ik: Program Chairman. Ray3p Jaeger. University of Califia Lawrence Radiation Lattery; and Member-at-Large. i;"hatcher. United Airlines, lilt Kerr. Creative Director. don Picture Division, Moulin OS. San Francisco was guest er. His subject was "The l[i Drawn Look in Animation."" screened several examples of ijpean animated commercials. ^11 as the filmed sloryboard he buced during the development t animated film titled. Smell oj r Stanford Film Procluetion Milities for .\pril .Meeting he April meeting of the NorthnCalifornia Chapter consisted Jtour of film production facili:sat Stanford University, conictd by Matt Lehmann. Refreshsjs were provided by Cinexlrie Laboratories. Palo Alto. nree speakers also highlighted ejvening program. Dr. Nathan atoby spoke on "'The Motion tire as a Tool in Behavorial ifce Research."" A review and Mssion of student film work at a ord was presented by Henry rarose. Ernest Rose concluded eprogram with a paper titled. "Film as an Instrument of Propaganda'" which featured a screening of German World War II propaganda films. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Chapter Meets at Glen Glenn; Sid Solow Talks on Color * Members of the Southern California chapter gathered at Glen Glen Sound Company facilities for their April meeting. Sidney Solow presented clips from the new Eastman Color Negative ( 725 1 ) and described methods for arriving at color projection prints from this new stock. Joseph Bluth and Dick Peck arranged a demonstration of a color television camera chain with video tape playback, part of the equipment featured in the selfcontained video tape crusiers operated by Glenn-Armistead Co. Also. Ersatz, an AcademyAward nomination cartoon was screened. See Herseliensohn's New Film ■it The Southern California chapter held its March meeting at Birns and Sawyer in Hollywood. Featured speaker of the evening was Bruce Herschensohn who presented his recently completed documentary on India. Karma. Herchensohn described his production problems and personal experiences on this assignment. Frank Chow. Director of Photographic Operations for the International Communications Foundation which sponsored the film, told of the purpose of the film and its intended audiences. As an added attraction, the new Sylvania Professional Sun Gun was demonstrated for the chapter. et Mitre Corp.'s Film Services people. L to r: Jack Smith, Supervisor, i[; Arthur Thiesen, ESD Pictorial Services Officer; Eugene Knight, writer; iiiDeMello, editor; Paul Snyder, writer-director; George Blackington, niraman; Louise Dyer, Claudia Sobczok, office staffers. I'' Dr. Raymond Fielding, Notional President of the Industry Film Producers Association i A Progress Report to the Membership With this issue of Business Screen we begin a new publications association designed to better serve the needs of our growing LF.P.A. membership. Henceforth, each issue of Business Screen will include an LF.P.A. section presenting both feature articles and news items of interest to association members. This new section, together with the already widely acclaimed general business-film coverage of the magazine, will provide LF.P.A. members with the finest and most complete coverage available of production activity throughout the entire industrial film field. More than six years have passed since a handful of Southern California in-plant film makers first began assembling for monthly meetings at which mutual problems could be discussed and the state of the industrial film profession examined. From these early meetings came the conviction that some sort of permanent national organization was needed to serve the distinct needs of in-plant producers — those professional film makers employed by corporations whose end products were not motion pictures but which have come to depend increasingly upon film as a solution to their complex internal and external communication problems. In 1957 the Industry Film Producers Association was founded, designed as an educational force, a professional forum, and a channel c( communication of American in-plant film makers. Since then the occupational specializations and the geographical areas served by the association have grown as rapidly as its mem'oership. Today, five regional chapters serve the needs of the association"s 400 widely-scattered members — in Southern California. Northern California. Florida. Georgia, and in the Delaware Valley states, and new chapters are being organized regularly to serve members-at-large in other parts of the country. The Industry Film Producers Association, a non-profit corporation, welcomes applications for Active. Associate, and Sustaining memberships from individuals and commercial organizations with a professional interest in the improvement of the industrial motion picture and its applications in American business and industry. We look forward to greeting both old and new members at our forthcoming 3rd Annual Conference, the one occasion of the year on which members from all LF.P.A. chapters come together to appraise the state of the profession, to honor the award-winning industrial film productions of the past year. and to hazard a glance at the shape of in-plant film production to come. 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