Business screen magazine (1944)

RCA DESIGNS AND BUILDS FIRST 16MM MOBILE SOUND FILM RECORDING UNIT FOR CORONET stilii ixcuitn'c, (licil.s u-iili hului visitor. A. 1. Putcl. Patel. Ampio Agent for India, elites Pioduit Demand There ♦ ■liuli.i i^ I ntfiiii,!; into a ntu CKiiioniic and iniUisiiial iiawliuli will acTclcialc tin drniaiid lor products ol the western world. " Thai is the statement made bv A. |. rKiii, Ampro Corporation's (lisirilnitoi lor India ami Cexlon. while \isitinu .Xmpro's plant on a recent Imsiness trip Irom Boniba\. Ml Patel. who heads ?\\v.l. l\iii\. Lri)., feels that prospects lor sales of photographic and 16 mm. projection equipment in India are exceedingly bright, .\nieiican productive capacity and ingenuity, he stated, are without doulil ihc best in the woi-ld. * * # Screen .\tiette Executives .\re Named in Staff .Announcement ♦ Sales peisonnel for West Coast operations of The Screen .Adette Equipment Corp. ha\e been announced b\ Mt.RRIMA.N H. HOLTZ, pifsident of that organization. .\RiHt-R HtRBtiRT is General Manager in Los .Angeles, assisted by Georof Jord.^n. In the San Joa(|uim \'alle\. Llovd Tingley is in cliarge. Oregon, Washington and Northern fdaho is co\ered from I'orlfand by Will.ard S.\nzenKACHKR. Manager, assisted by HenR\ )().\(:as. while Northern California is managed by Fred K. KisLiiNGBi'RV and Leonard Stone. ,MoBn.E Service Unit was delivcri'd h\ Bell ir Howell President }. H. McXabb (right) to Wayne Xewinan, seii'ice tnanager jor Deseret Book Co.. Salt Lake City. 4 1 he In si loinplete mobile re(ording unit lo be developed espeii.dh loi IliiMMi sound libii riiording li.is bun designed .mil custom i)iiill b\ llu RCA 1-ibii Recording l)e|)artment in Holhwood lor the Coronet Instruclional lilm C(imp;nn, ol (ilen\ iew. Illinois. I he imil tonsists ol a complete him and dis( recording channel insudled in a < ustom built tjodx wliiili is niounietl on a I i/i ton n u(lv I bass is. f be recoiding cbanncl is ol the Holhwootl studio i\l)e and has all the features norui.db louud necessary for the operations III major studios. 1 he opiiLd s\slem and film p.uh ol the si.nidard RC.\ Model I'R !.';( film Recorder installed in ihe mobile unit was specialh modified to permit recording ol direct positive as well as negative variable area sound track. The Idm reiorder also includes a photographic slater and a synchroni/ation marking s\stein. For "Uxation" recording, the chaniul can be operated entirely bv batteries which have sufhcient capaiilv lor approximaleh -II hours of normal operation. Special windings on the motors of the camera and recorder permit RESEARCH IS A NOSEY BUSINESS Our motion picture research department spends more time than we think it should, studying your problems and how they may best be solved by the visual medium. They seem to think they should know all about your business before turning in the "signals" for scripting. Maybe they're right . . . our clients are satisfied. PHOTO & SOUND, INC INDUSTRIAL EDUCATIONAL Creators of TRAINING . . . MERCHANDISING ...SALES MOTION PICTURES Also AI-IDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT SALES. RENTAL S. REPAIR BELL & HOWELL SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE 141 NEW MONTGOMERY STREET • SAN FRANCISCO 5 • EXbrook 2103 interlock operation from either a y6-volt battery source or a 220 volt three-phase .-VC supply. The from compartment of this "recording studio on wheels " contains the disi and film recording machines, film loading labinet. power supply balteiies. and a number of storage compartments. The amplifier, power control panel, Seleniuni-ty|)e (barging unit, dynamolor and filter are located in a bulk-head which runs crosswise ol the truck. Ihe rear c (imparl mc'iil ccmtains two large cable reels, lamp batteries, and a cable .storage compartment. Three large doors in the rear of the iiuik provide easy access to all storage space and ecitiipment. while the rear side of the power panel and amplifier racks are c(|ually accessible through hinged doors, immediately behind the amplifier and power panels. These panels serve to keep the equipmeiu free from dirt and dust normally encountered in "location" work. The addition ol llli^ mobile recording unit for lljnim sound lilm recording is in line with the expanded program which Coronet is planning in the production of instructional films. S. G. Rose, Victor Executive, Tours Mexico and West Coast ♦ S. G. Rose, top-ranking executive of Victor Animatograph Corporation. Davenport, Iowa, has been in Mexico on a personal survey of tlie Mexican business potential. On completion of the survey. Mr. Rose is visiting key distributors of Victor products on the Pacific Coast. Robert H. Kulka, Victor's Latin .American Manager, is alsfj on an extended business trip throughout Mexico. Regarding the Latin .American market, Mr. Kulka expressed enthusiastic oplimism: "There are many forward-looking persons in these countries who are advocating the use of 16mm motion pictures as a profitable tool in industry as well as being of great value to the educational svstcni. We are doing our best to help these friends of ours obtain not only the right equipment for sliowing Kimm sound motion pictures, but to furnish them sources of the best films, whether they be entertainment, educational, religious or industrial." # * # ♦ Ihe next issue of Business Screen will be a Review Number. 48 BUSINESS SCREEN MAGAZINE m