Business Screen Magazine (1963-1964)

In^triimeiil Society Proiluee§ Film on Automatic Control <T The application advantages of automatic control to a process in a small chemical plant are shown in Automatic Process Control, a 16mm sound and color film now available from the Instrument Society of America. This 33 minute film, intended principally for career guidance, is aimed at the instrumentation newcomer and answers the questions: What is automatic control? What does it mean? What are its application advantages to industry? What are the modes of control commonly used? Step by step, the film discusses the four modes of control — on off. proportional, proportional with reset, and proportional with reset and rate action — and illustrates how a typical company's product quality and economic returns improve with the addition of each mode. The film also touches on how the relation of system analysis, centralized panels and computer control can assist in bringing about optimum process conditions at maximum output with minimum costs. The film was planned and produced by a task force composed of members of the ISA Rochester Section under the auspices of the Society's Education Division. Rental rates for the film are: S25 to companies; $5 to schools and other societies. Prints may be purchased for $400. For further information contact: Publications Department, Instrument Society of America, Penn-Sheraton Hotel, ."iOO William Penn Place, Pittsburgh 24. Pa. 5f' Inland Vialerway Network Is Pictured in "Forever Free" '.X Transportation on America's network of free inland waterways, the problems and operations, are presented in Forever Free, a 27'/2 minute sound and color film produced for American Waterways Operators, Inc., by The Jam Handy Organization. Historical antecedents of this country's 29,000 miles of inland waterways are shown. Highlighted are the efforts of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln to keep water routes free and useable. Raw materials and finished products from home and abroad are pictured in transit. Towboats as long as the Queen Mary move cargos to factories and ports along our nation's rivers and canals. Association Films is the distributor.O" The Wide World of Sponsored Pictures Republic Steel Offers Famed '"Order Makers'''" Film Library I C Motion Pictures used in widely-successful sales development programs of the Republic Steel Corporation are being shared with other companies who may find good use for two series originally produced by Wilding, Inc. for this steel maker and fabricator. They are now available on free loan via regional sales office of Republic. Eight of the films are on steel and plastic pipe products, their application and basic sales principles involved in selling. Seven pictures (all in color) deal with stainless steel products and fabrication. All 1 .^ pictures were key elements of Republic's famed Order Makers' institute (OMI) sales training program. The $3 million operation was widely applied among dealers and distributors and has been described as one of the most successful sales stimulators in this decade. The first group of eight films is of special interest to petroleum and utility companies, but is now being offered to other organizations. The titles are; Arteries of a Nation, Wliut You IVouUI Like to Know, Let's Look Deeper, Pipelines to the Future, Tlie Uncommon Carrier, WItere the Line Begins, Quality You Can Measure, The Weevil Takes a Bride. Republic's stainless steel fabrication films are designed for architects, engineers, designers, fabricators, machinists, metallurgists and teachers. The films represent a compilation of the most practical knowledge available on fabricating and maintaining stainless steel. Titles in the fabrication series are; Tlie New World of Stainle.ts Steel, The Simpers of Stainless Steel. Not Difficult — Just Different, Fonnint' ami Bending of Stainless Steel, Deep Drawing of Stainless Steel, Finishing Stainless Steel in the Shop, The Care and Maintenaiwe of Stainless Steel. All of the films are available for use by firms in the United States on a free loan basis. Contact the Republic Steel sales office in your locality to obtain prints. S= Petroleum Itcsearcli Goals Pictured liy Standard of Calif. = Produced for showing to visitors at the Standard Oil Company of California's major centers of operation, The Goal of Petroleum Research, illustrates the methods and goals of research in the petroleum industry, and points up their significance to the consumer and the general economy. The 14-niinute color film traces the development of a single petroleum chemical — a raw material widely used in the manufacture of paints and plastics — through laboratory research and pilot plant testing to the marketing of the finished product. From that point it shows the abundance of products in everyday use which are derived from petroleum, products made possible, or greatly improved, through research. Motion Picture Service Company, San Francisco, produced the film. It was written and directed by Terry Brickley and photographed by Chuck Eyman. Art work was done by Standard Oil Company's own artist, Larry Weber. Copies are available for showing by schools and other organizations in the west, and prints may be borrowed without charge from the company's 10 film loan libraries, or by writing the Public Relations Dept., Standard Oil Company of California, 225 Bush Street. San Francisco 20, Calif. S" Skill of Billiards Champion W illie Mosconi in Slidefilm The game of billiards has undergone a transformation. Now it has become a family game as the "pool" parlor of another era has eiven wav to adults and youngsters alike. To aid those who want to master skills in this field, the Brunswick Corporation is sponsoring sound slidefilms featuring champion Willie Mosconi in fine points of the game. The subjects are being produced bv Gil Altschul Productions. 54 BUSINESS SCREEN MAGAZINE