Business screen magazine (1946)

EVERYTHING FOR EASTERN PRODUCTION LIGHTING EQUIPMENT GRIP EQUIPMENT Incandescent Equipment H. I. Arc Equipment Choke Coils Dimmer Equipment Cables Boxes and Boards DifFusers Bulbs Generator Sets TV Scoops Reflectors Ladders and Steps Parallels Dollies Microphone Booms Scrim Flags Block Flags Dots Stands PROPS Catalogs upon request INC. 333 West 52nd Street • New York 19, N.Y. Circle 6-5470 Pimpli! Maki! ]\uws Name Dunn, Racusin to New Posts at RCA Custom Records ♦ Twii niajcii a(liiiini>lr;iliM i liariges ill the KCA Viclor Kecortl Division have been aiinouiircd. Emmett Dunn. Conlroller for the record company since 1951, has been nained Manager. Custom Records Administration, a newly created post. James P. Davis will continue as manager. Custom Record Division. Norman Racusin. formerly Manager. Financial Operations, has been appointed (^(jntroller to succeed Mr. Dunn. Mr. Dunn, a graduate of Temple University and a Certified Public Accountant, joined RCA Victor in 1941 as an accountant. Mr. Racusin was graduated from Penn .State in 1941 and later attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He came to RCA Victor in 19.S0 as a budget analyst. Eastman Kodak's Henry Hood Honored by Standards Assn. ♦ Hem V J. Hood. Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester. N. Y.. was honored by the American Standards Association recently in recognition of his accomplishments in the development of American Standards. He represents the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers on the Standards Council, responsible for the technical program of the ASA. The Council works to assure that all standards projects are national in scope and representative of all groups concerned. Hood is one of some 80 representatives of national technical societies, trade associations and consumer groups holding membership on the council. His citation read: "The American Standards Association presents this certificate in recognition of contributions to the establishment of voluntary standards and in appreciation of sound advice and devotion of energy to the furtherance of the standards movement as a means of advancing the national economy." f^ * :< Buckeye A-V Dealers Elect Officers at Columbus Meet ♦Mablo,, Marliii ..f tlic M. H. Martin Company, Massillon. Ohio, was elected president of the Buckeye Audio-Visual Dealers Association at its meeting in ('ohnnbus, Ohio, January 7. the National AudioVisual Association has aimounced. Other officers elected by the Buckeye group include Vernon Birdsell, Birdsell .'\udio-Visual Co.. Cincinnati, vice-president ; and Vera Smith of Vere .Smith's AudioVisual Service, Athens, secretary. Some 18 a-v dealers from the State of Ohio have membership in the Buckeye Audio-Visual Dealers Association, which meets regularly every other month. Activities of the two-year-old group include joint advertising, audio-visual service standards and cooperation with the state audio-visual program. ♦ tt • Chrysler Appoints Howard Back Supervisor of Television News ♦ Appointment of Howard K. Back as Supervisor of Television News for the Public Relations Department of Chrysler Corporation was announced recently by James Cope. Vice-President in charge of Public Relations. Mr. Back, former news editor of Telenews in New York, will have the responsibility of serving the needs of television network news programs and theatre newsreels. He will work under the direction of Thomas P. Marker, manager of the corporations Motion Picture Section. In his Telenews post, Mr. Back for four years had charge of plan Howard K. Back ning national newsfilm coverage by 300 staff and free-lance cameramen. Previously, he held reporting, editing and broadcasting positions with WERC, Erie, Pa.; WOHI, East Liverpool, Ohio; WBNS-TV, Columbus. Ohio, and the Erie. Pa., Dispatch. A native of Orange, New Jersey. Mr. Back was born December 21. 1927. He is a graduate of Pennsyl vania State University and received a master's degree in journalism from Ohio State University. He is a member of the Radio-Newsreel-Telcvision Working Press Association of New York; Sigma Delta Chi. na tional journalism fraternity, and thi National Press Photographer's Association. » • « Extra Copies of Production Review Now Available ♦ Additional copies of the 6th An nual Production Review may be obtained, while the supply lasts, al $2.00 each, postpaid. Order from BusiMiss ScRKEN, 7064 Sheridan Road, Chicago 26, Illinois. USINESS SCREEN MAGAZINE