American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1963)

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Complete . $124.50 Lowel-L:ghts, model K5, five Lowel-Light, with gaffer tape and case $ 34.50 Gaffer tape, 12-yard roll $ 1.95 Gaffer tape, 30-yard roll . $ 3.95 Lowel Barndoors $ 5.75 NEW GTC-59 LENS CLEANER & PROTECTOR • Anti-Fog • Anti-Static Ideal for lenses, cameras, condensors, reflectors, optical equipment, etc. 6 oz. can with Spray Applicator $1.65 each Case of 12/ $1.00 each INDUSTRY NEWS Continued from Page 504 which will put MGM back in the car¬ toon field for the first time since it shuttered its shorts department in 1957. Walter Bien, it was learned, has been signed to produce top-budgeted “Tom and Jerry” shorts on a one-amonth basis. As an indie producer. Bien will produce films off the Metro lot. with the studio financing and dis¬ tributing. Bien, heretofore active only in com¬ mercial and industrial film fields, has set director Chuck Jones, long asso¬ ciated with V arners cartoon produc¬ tion before studio closed its shorts department in January, to helm films. Jones will bring bulk of crew he has worked with in past which will in¬ clude writer Mike Maltese. Productions will be in “full anima¬ tion” as opposed to the “limited ani¬ mation” common to tv. Illustrating dif¬ ference. Jones declares that average weekly output for the “limited” ani¬ mator is equal to from 150 to 200 feet of completed film whereas in “full” animation artist usually accounts for no more than 30 feet. Foreign income derived from ani¬ mated shorts has long gone largely unnoticed, according to Cartoonists rep Kilty. He asserts that recent reap¬ praisal by Warners of this factor has sparked recurrent rumors that studio is also propping a return to cartoon production. o Movietone Heads For Featurette News Format The Movietone News division of 20th Century-Fox. both domestic and foreign, is to undergo change in for¬ mat. Latter will have emphasis on top¬ ical featurettes instead of spot news. At same time Movietone will step up its overseas newsreel activities. The company supplies newsreel coverage lor theatrical distribution. United Press International, inci¬ dentally. which for 12 years has had an arrangement w ith Movietone where¬ by the latter provided newsfilm for TV. will go into production and syndi¬ cation on its own October 1st. Aid To Projectionists Formation of an engineering com¬ mittee to disseminate information on new developments in motion-picture projection was announced recently by I. A. International Vice President George Flaherty, who is also president of Studio Projectionists’ Local 165. Cha irman of the committee is Don kloepfel. projection supervisor for Gen¬ eral Film Laboratories. The committee will work to familiarize projectionists with new equipment and developments, to standardize projection rooms and up¬ grade projection quality, and to pro¬ vide employers with current informa¬ tion on the selection and use of equip¬ ment. o Charles Rosher Revisits Hollywood Charles E. Rosher who achieved the dream of most Hollywood cinematog¬ raphers a few years ago by retiring to a tropical hideaway in Jamaica, revisited Hollywood last month. One of the founders of the American So¬ ciety of Cinematographers, Rosher Charles Rosher, ASC was for many years one of M-G-M's top directors of photography. A twotime Academy Award winner — for "Sunrise’ (1928) and “The Year¬ ling’ (1946) — he also earned nu¬ merous Academy Award nominations for his cinematography. V hile in Hollywood, he conferred with Sol Lesser, President of the Hol¬ lywood Motion Picture and TV Mu¬ seum, regarding subject material planned for exhibition there when the Museum is completed next year. • TRADE NOTES: Jack Pill has launched his own camera equipment business in Hollywood, at 6510 Santa Monica Blvd. . . . W alter Druker, formerly with Camera Service Center, has joined Camera Mart’s rental and sales de¬ partment . . . Calvin Productions, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., announces forma¬ tion of Calvin-De Frenes Corporation in Philadelphia. Company will offer Calvin-type services to east coast film makers . . . William P. Howard, has been named sales manager of Movielab, Inc. . . . Florman & Babb has opened branch in Montreal, Canada, at 1263 Dorchester St., West. Manager is Kenneth Jones . . . Louis M. Jennis has been appointed marketing man¬ ager for Ansco’s Motion Picture and industrial products . . . Triad Corpn., Encino. has re-established its east coast office at 3702 Munsie St., Wheaton, Maryland. Vince Koenig manages. ■ SOj AME.TI )AN CINEVIATOJRAPHEt, SEPTEMBER. 1363