Business screen magazine (1946)

!iiyht and Suuuil u[ tliu Hews . . . begins new career of service Conger Reynolds Made Chief/ U.S. Office, Private Cooperation ■♦< CoiiL'i-r Ki'xniilcls. vi'teran nil industry puhlic relations executive. has begun a new career as Chief of the United States Information Agency's Office of Private Cooperation. His appointment was announced bv Theodore C. Streibert, Agency director. Reynolds, director of public relations for Standard Oil Company (Indiana I for 26 years, moved to his new post on February 1. He retired from Standard Oil a fewmonths ahead of schedule to begin his new career of public service, Dr. Robert E. Wilson. Standard's chairman, disclosed. Reynolds succeeded Herbert A. Dingwall. New York publishing executive, who held the lnforniatio]i Agency post for over a year and who resigned to return to private business. The Agency's Office of Private Cooperation, which Reynolds heads, encourages private American groups, business firms, labor organizations, communities, civic associations, nonprofit groups and individuals in acti\ities that further international understanding and goodwill. These projects include letterwriting. overseas advertising, mail inserts, exhibits, town affiliations, tourist orientation, and the collection of books and magazines for overseas distribution. In announcing the new appointment. Streibert said: "We are more than gratified that the Information Agency is to have the services of a man with such long experience and broad contacts in the business field. His background and standing will. 1 am sure, prove most valuable in stimulating increased cooperation between private organizations and the government in support of the United States overseas informational program. ' Reynolds is a founder of the journalism department of the Uni versifv of Iowa and began his career as a newspaperman in Des Moines. He served as a press officer with the AEF in W orld War I. was managing editor of the Paris Edition of The Chicago Tribune in 1921). and later worked on New ^ ork newspapers. From 1922 to 1929. he was a career U.S. Foreign .Service officer at Halifax. Nova Scotia, and Stuttgart. Germany. He joined Standard Oil in 1929. In 1948, Reynolds received the national award of the predecessor organization of the Public Relations Societv of .America, of which he is a director in the Chicago chapter. He was chairman of the national Oil Industrv Information Connnittee in 1949. and received the degree of doctor of laws and letters from Carthage College in 19.52. & « * » Ford Slidefilm Wins Award from Suggestion Systems Assn. ♦ Ford Motor Company and E. 1. du Pont de Nemours Corporation each earned a top award from the National Association of Suggestion Systems at the recent NASS Convention in Cincinnati. The awards were made in recognition of the excellence of the Ford ■•25TH YEAR OF SERVICE TO THE USER OF MOTION PICTURES' reelS cans Shipping cases ■motion pictube equipment rejuvenation OF FILM COMPREHENSIVE SERVICE CORPORATION 245 WEST 55' STREET, NEW YORK 19. NY COlumBUS S-6767 DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLE; •THIS IS MANS HIGHEST END: TO OTHERS' SERVICE ALL HIS POWERS BEND "... SOPHOCLES and du Pont suggesliuii s\slciii pmmotional canipaigns. The Assislant Siifn'ri i.sitr. it sound slidefilm |iri)iluii(! In tinFord Suggestion Programs Section and the trainitig diparlment of the Industrial Hi'lalions slalT. vmhi iIhaward for Ford. The award-winning slidefilm i~ in use throughout the Ford Company as super\isorv training material. ■ Modern Moves Midw^estern Film Booking and TV Offices ♦The Midwesl ngiiMiul >alis oliici of Modern Talking Picture Service. Inc., national distributors of business-sponsored and television films, has moved to Chicago's new Prudential Building. Client contact and ser\ ice will lie handled out of the new office by Richard M. Hough and Arthur R. Bach. The Midwest regional office address is: Prudential Plaza. Chicago 1. Illinois. The telephone number is: DElaware 7-32.52. rhe Chicago Division also has announced that Modern s regional (Chicago I 16mm film library has moved to 216 East Superior Street. Chicago 11. Illinois. The telephone number is: SUperior 7-0588. Modern's Television Division branch remains at 420 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 11. Illinois. The telephone number is: DElaware 7-3761. The regional film library distributes sponsored films to schooLand 16mm audiences of all types. The television branch is Modern's Midwest hub for tv films, trafficking contact and service to advertising agencies. Theodore H. Markovic Named Manager of NBC Film Exchange ->< Theodore H. Markii\ii has been named manager of the NBC Film Exchange Services. Frank C. Lepore. NBC Film Division's manager of film and kinescope operations aniiiiunced recently. Markovic will manage the newly (iimpleled NBC Film Exchange, in Englewood (Cliffs. New Jersey, embracing distribution, storage and inspection of t\ film and kinescope prints. The normal traffic at the NB(" Film Exchange now is upwards of 1.2110 prints a week — including NBC Film Division syndicated programs, kinescopes of live NBC television network film shows. \ former film editor for Fox Movietone News and film manager for WPI.X. Markoxic joined NBC in 1953. I nder his supervision, the NBC Film Library was developed 111 its present stature as the "largest l\ film lihrarx in the industrv, " 10 BUSINESS SCREEN MAGAZINE