Business screen magazine (1946)

Canadian Camera: Hews & PreviEws Studio Operations and Film Production Activity North of the Border Associated Screen News, Ltd. Announces Staff Promotions ♦Se\eial ^lalf change* at Assucialed Screen News Limited. MoiiIreal. Quebec. Canada, have been announced by Murray Briskin. executive assistant to the president. Newly appointed as laboratory superintendent is A. D. Nicholson, formerly Quebec District sales manager. He replaces T. O. Bailey who has resigned. T. M. Abranis has been named Quebec District TV Commercials sales manager and he will also carry on as advertising and public relations director. \X illiam Conway, former 35mm Laboratory coordinator, has become assistant laboratorv superintendent. George Ramsev. formerlv film inspector, has replaced Conway as .3.Smm Lab coordinator. Q" Caldwell Opens Montreal Office * Establishment of a sales office and screening room in Montreal. Quebec. Canada, has been announced b> S. W. Caldwell. Ltd.. Toronto. Ontario. The new office is in suite 319 in the Castle Building. UIO Stanley St.. Montreal. Managing the Montreal office is J. R. DeBow. well known in Canadian radio and television circles. For several years DeBow was a sales representative for radio station CKOC in Hamilton. Ontario. With the development of television he moved to the Inited States where he became manager of a group of radio and television stations in the Midwest. Q' Below: the Shoe Information Bureau "Walk In Health" shown during produ James A. Cowan James Cowan Named to Board of Directors of S. W. Caldwell ♦ James A. Cowan has been appointed to the board of directors of S. W. Caldwell. Ltd.. Toronto. r)ntario. Canada. Cowan has had extensive experience in the film industry and for the past three years he has been president of the Canadian Film Institute, a national organization concerned with the nontheatrical uses of film. Cowan's appointment is timed with expanding operations at S. W. Caldwell which recently purchased Batten Film Studio, originally equipped and operated by the J. Arthur Rank Organization. One of Canada's leading public relations consultants. Cowan has handled clients in industry and government. Through the years he has utilized motion pictures as a regular public relations activity. Q' of Canada is sponsoring the new film ction by Crawley Films. Film, TV Course Initiated by Associated Screen News, Ltd. "♦t A ?emi-prufes?.ioiial course in e\ery phase of motion picture and television production is being initiated this fall for McGill Lniversity students and interested persons in the advertising and business fields by Associated Screen News. Ltd.. Montreal. (Quebec. Canada. 1"he seven-month initial course is designed to develop a new source of creative and technical personnel for Canada's motion picture and tv industry and to provide a-v users with a practical knowledge of creative and technical phases. The present curriculum calls for extensive evening study each week, graduating from theory into actual planning, writing, animation, shooting, lighting, set design and construction, recording, acting, laboratory practice. Special features include lecturers from Canada and the L nited States, students' cooperative projects in planning and producing their own pilot films and tv commercials and field trips. Examinations and graduation certificates complete the course. An effort will be made to provide summer employment with Canadian producers for those desiring a career in the industry. Tuition for the course is -S.SO.OO. all inclusive. Textbooks are provided throughout the course. Directing the a-\' course is \^ illiam Hodapp. director of television with Harold F. Stanfield, Ltd. Hodapp. a native of Louisville. Kentucky, was very active in network radio and television in the L nited States, working as a script-writer and producer for NBC and CBS. He was radio-tv winner of the 19.53 Howard Blakeslee Medical Award. ^ * * « Rose Joins Lawrence Production ♦ Kiilicrl Hcpsc has joined Robert Law rence Productions I Canada i Ltd. in Toronto as production director. Rose terminated the operation of his own company to take this new position an<l will now devote his full time t() dire<'tii>n. He has previously worked with the National Film Board. Caldwell. Ltd. and Graphic Films Ltd. in Toronto. The Law rence firm in Canada has recently completed commercials for such firms as .Moirs Chocolates. Troitor & (;amble. McCoU-Frontenac. Heinz and Colgate-Palmolive. ^ and Commerce i ■ Films' produce i| ne for "A Nevjl Above: The Right Honoroble C. D. Howe Conodo's Minister of Trade and Commerce being directed by Crowley Sally MacDonold in o see Future Lies North. " Canada's Industrial Growth Depicted in Sponsored Film ♦ i \ru Futuri' Lies \iirth. a new 20-minute color motion picture portra\ing the economic growth anc potential of Canada, is being madf available to .American audiences b\ Vance. Sanders & Company. Canada, according to the film's photo-story, is neither a land of icE and snow nor merely a picture postcard paradise of fishermen and Mounties. Canada is a major industrial power, a wealthy country with one of the highest standards of living in the world. The film includes an interview with the Right Honor-! able C. D. Howe. Canada's American-born Minister of Trade and Commerce. Produced b\ Crawle\' Films. Limited. Ottawa. A Sew Future Lies .\orlli tells Canada's industrial story with scenes of oil in the west, iron in the east, hydro-electric power, minerals, wheat, aluminum, pulp and paper. The film explains how Canada's population has shifted from the farm to the city, changing; the land from "the breadbasket of the world " to a booming industrial nation. Physical aspects which made Canada's growth possible are de ■ picled: the formation of the Lauren i tial Shield with its mineral wealth, the formation of oil deposits from i plant and animal life in Canada I millions of years ago. The film ex1 plains why Canada's untapped 1 water power is equal to 30 Niagara j Falls. I The film was seen b\ in\estment t dealers from all o\er America at : the eighth annual Mutual Funds i Sales Convention in Chicago on .September 22nd. A .\ew future Lies Xorth is available from Vance. Sanders & Com . pany. Ill Devonshire St. Boston. ^ * « • New Canadian Assn. Headq'rs ' ♦ The \sso( ialiuii i.f M..ticpii Pic j ture Producers and Laboratories of I Canada has moved to new head • quarters at 2121 Knightsbridge Road. Ottawa. Ontario. Sf !' I 74 BUSINESS SCREEN MAGAZINE I