Business screen magazine (1957)

it. TRANSFILM, INCORPORATED 35 West 4oth Street, New York 36, N.Y. Phone: JUdson 2-1400 Date of Organization : 1941 William Miesegaes, President Walter Lowendahl, Executive Vice-Pres. Robert H. Klaeger. Vice-Pres. Chg. Motion Picture Production William Burnham, Vice-Pres. Chg. of Sales Pud Lane, Vice-Pres. Chg. of SUdefilms Michael A. Palma. Secretary-Treasurer John Fenton, Vice-Pres., Motion Picture Completion George Ottino. Manager. Animation Dept. Albert Boyars, Public Relations Dir. Steve Kambourian, Superi'ising Film Editor Joop Geesink, Co-Producer, Dollywood Studios, Amstei-dam, Holland Services: Live action, animated, stop-motion films for business, theatrical and television use. Sound slidefilms and still photography. Specialists in films for public relations, sales training and attitude motivation. Create and execute entire audio-visual programs for industry. TV commercials. Complete editorial and recording services. Stafl" public relations service for trade and consumer film exploitation. Facilities: Air-conditioned sound stage and screening rooms. Animation art department: two animation camera stands, optical printer, extensive editing facilities and sound slidefilm studio. Complete prop and .scenic departments plus fully equipped shop. Still photography studio and laboratory. Equipped for 16 and 3.5mm photography and tape recording; optical and tape interlock projection. Print service dept. for inspection and shipping. Film advisory counselling service, research and script writing. Approx. 100 permanent staff. Administrative offices and facilities under one ronf in Transfilm Building (N.Y. i. RECENT PRODUCTIONS AND SPONSORS Motion Pictures: Profits Preferred i U.S. Plywood Corp.l : The Pitch: Your Brother's House (Greater New York Fundi: Opportunities Unlimited (Life Magazine) ; Through the Looking Glass (General Electric Co.); The Story of Oil Marketing (Shell Oil Co.) ; Build for Profit (E. L du Pont de Nemours). Slidefilms: To Your Good Health i Life Magazine & National Wholesale Druggists Assn.) ; Complaints Are Opportunities in Disguise (E. I. du Pont de Nemours) ; Walter Reed & the Conquest of Yellow Fever (Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.) ; Your Heating Opportunities in 19.56 (Crane Co.) ; A Flight Plan for Your Future (Republic Aviation) ; Distributor Sales Development Program — 6 slidefilms (General Electric Company). TV CoMMERCi.ALs: For Minute Maid ( Ted Bates') ; Noxon Polish; Bankers Trust Co. (Rose-Martin I ; Old Gold ( Lennen & Newell i : Old Spice (Wesley Associates!; Pontiac: Saran Wi'ap: Scotch Brand Cellophane Tape. Cadillac: Dow Chemical Products (MacManus, -John & Adams I : Platex; Rheingold Beer; Spry: Imperial Margarine fFoote, Cone & Belding i ; Prestone; Winstons; Ballantine Beer; Camels; Cavalier Cigarettes; Coca-Cola: Salems (William Esteyi; RCA Victor Records: Exquisite Form Brassieres; 5-Day Deodorant; Gruen Watch: Hoffman Mixers (Grey Advertising); RCA Victor TV Sets (Kenyon & Eckhardt) : Tide; Gaines Dog Food (Benton & Bowles): Speidel Watchbands (Norman, Craig & Kum mel) : Betty Crocker Cake Mixes: DuPont products (B. B. D. & O.'i ; GE Radios & Televivision Sets; Gillette (Maxon); and others. TRIDENT FILMS, INC. 510 Madison Avenue, New York 22, N.Y. Phone: PLaza 9-3580 Date of Organization : March. 1947 Charles F. Schwep, President Guy K. Benson, Vice-President Dorothy E. Schuster, Secretary Services: Program development from original research to finished film. Institutional, commercial, documentai\v and training films; specializing in public attitude films for general TV and special audiences. Also marionettes. Facilities: 16mm and 35mm cameras, dollies, lighting equipment, standard editing rooms, screening. Storage, camera and equipment truck. Permanent creative, directorial and editing staff. RECENT PRODUCTIONS AND SPONSORS Motion Pictures: HO.JA Series — IV (United States Information Agency i ; Program Pilot (Volunteers of America). TV Commercials (and service films i for: Fry-Cadbury Chocolate Co. : Breck Shampoo ( Canada ) ; Revlon International (Canada); Ogilvie Flour Mills: Wash 'n Dri; Macdonald Tobacco Co. 7r UNIFILMS, INC. 329 East 47th Street, New York 17, N.Y. Phone: MUrray Hill 8-9325, 8-9326 Date of Organization; 1949 Charles E. Gallagher, President Arline Garson, Secretary Clarence Smit, Treasurer Richard Maury, Senior Writer Robert Stringer, Senior Director Leonard Hirschfield, Senior Cameraman Newton Avrutis, Senior Engineer Services: Business and Television films; 16 and 35mm Slidefilms and filmographs. Live art and cartoon. Specialty: The Nan-ative Drama. Facilities: Staff of seventeen, and 8,000 square feet in Midtown Manhattan. 90 foot sound stage. Permanent kitchen ; 10 channels of tape; Art department; dressing rooms; Kodachrome printer; vault; Editing rooms; 50,000 watts of studio lighting. Animation stand. Music library. RECENT PRODUCTIONS AND SPONSORS Motion Pictures: .-ill Of a Sudden ( Socony Mobil Oil Co.) ; Trains, Tracks and Safety Facts (Pennsylvania Railroad); Picnic at the Proving Grounds I Pontiac); Steady Work. Steady Pay ( National Assn. of Manufacturers) ; Blueprint for Progress ( Servel, Inc.); Loaded Wires (Federal Pacific Electric Co.) ; Lubricated Pltig Valves (Walworth Co.). Slidefilms: Cash Comeback (Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. i ; Seven Golden Benefits I Federal Pacific Electric Co.). Television Films: Six programs for American Medical .Association. ll-if C3iM-4^ CJ NEW YORK iL UNITED STATES PRODUCTIONS, INC. 5 East 57th Street, New York 22, N.Y. Production Center: 108 E. 56th St., N.Y.C. Phone: PLaza 1-1710 Date of Organization: 1955 Branch Office : 4000 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C; John Holman, in chg. Francis C. Thayer, President Thomas H. Wolf, Vice-Pres., Creative Dir. Rene Bras, Vice-Pres., Creative Services Carroll Bagley, Vice-President, Sales Ellis Sard, Associate Producer Arthur Zegart, Associate Producer John L. Thayer, Service Manager Robert W. Asman, Production Manager Services: Production of theatrical, television and indu.strial motion pictures, sound slidefilms, filmstrips and TV commercials. Facilities: Complete facilities for 35mm or 16mm live or animated motion pictures and sound slidefilms. INFORMATION PRODUCTIONS (Division of U.S. Productions, Inc.) RECENT PRODUCTIONS AND SPONSORS Motion Pictures: Change at Haverstraw: Someone Is Watchi7ig (New York State Department of Health) ; No Less Precious (National Association for Retarded Children) ; Secrets of the Reef (Marine Studios, Inc.) ; Atoms for Peace — Scientific Advancement ( United States Information Agency) ; Everyone Can Write; There's a Book for Everyone; Planning Together ( McGraw-Hill Book Co.) ; The Big Fi.r (CBS-Hytron) ; Air Pou-er — film services (CBS Television). TV Commercials: For Upjohn Company; National Assn. for Retarded Children: Democratic National Committee; Pan American World Airways. SCIENCE PICTURES, INC. (Division of U.S. Productions. Inc.) RECENT PRODUCTIONS AND SPONSORS IhrnoN Pictures: Cities Service Camera Tour (Cities Service Oil Co.) ; Principles of Respiratory .Mechanics — Parts III and IV (National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis') : .4 Study of Seven Publications ( Re.ader's Digest) ; Flexin (McNeil Laboratories) : .Annual Report ( Pitney-Bowes, Inc.); The F-27 Story (Fairchild Engine & Aircraft Corp.); Madeline's Christmas (McCall's Magazine^ ; Boontonware (Boonton Molding Company). Slidefilm: .4 Cor Is Born (Western Printing & Lithographing Co."). TV Commercials for Bethlehem Steel Co.; Triple S Stamps: Swanee Paper Products; Red-L Frozen Foods: FFV Cookies; Cities Service Oil Company. UPA Pictures, Inc. 60 East 56th Street. New York 22, N.Y. Phone : PLaza 8-1405 Charles D. McCormick, Vice-President, in charge (See complete listing under Los Angeles area) Qualified Specialists in Business and Television Film Production ■K Experienceii users of visual communicatiuns of a competent film producer. Only companies in business, industry and government look to supplying minimum client reference data ai-e the Annual Production Review listing pages given unqualified listing in these pages. Look for basic reference data, carefully collated and to Business Screen for the best buyer's guide complete as a primary step in the selection reference data in 1957. S' 7TH ANNUAL PRODUCTION REVIEW 113