Business Screen Magazine (1963-1964)

Capitol Library Service Has New "Production Music Series" il A new background library for film and broadcast use, the Production Music Series (PiMS) has been announced by Capitol Library Services, Hollywood. PMS offers music classified by category. rather than by the usual system of individual titling. All of the subjects were especially written and arranged for the Service. PMS is set up in the following categorical selections: sports and metro; sports and news; news and industrial; fast activities; show bus The ^'i ide World of Sponsored Pictures Radio personality Jack Wagner is pictured using the Capitol Production Music series for his syndicated program. iness; documentary marches; scenics; light and happy; comedy and cartoon; kiddie show ; fashion show melodies; "important" melodies (documentary); plain melodies; production melodies; dramatic music; short title music (open and close); percussion effects; dramatic statements, etc. The new Capitol service is offered on 14 LP, 33 1/3 doublefaced discs, containing 254 different selections and is priced at $85. There are no leasing fees. The basic series will be added to periodically to maintain a flow of new and timely melodies. Write Capitol Library Services, Hollywood & Vine. Hollywood 28. California for details, mentioning Business Screen. 3* * * * A/F Libraries to Distribute 30 Fire Underwriters' Films ■it Association Films. Inc., has been named distributor of the National Board of Fire Underwriters' film library of more than 30 subjects. These films have become a Fire Prevention Week staple with thousands of schools, industrial plants, businesses, TV stations and fire departments, as well as performing outstanding work in fire prevention consciousness during the other 51 weeks of the year. They focus attention on a vital sector of interest. ^ Sterling staff in their new soundproo Sharon Grubler, Lorraine Patterson, Sterling Movies U, S. .4. Opens New Television Booking Center •k Sterling Movies U. S. A. has established a new Television Booking Center in a soundproof communications office 36 floors above Park Avenue in New York. Here, communications office are (I to r): Betty Van Bergen, Marie Burgess. constant long-distance contact is maintained with the country's more than 600 TV stations by Sharon Grubler, Lorraine Patterson, Betty Van Bergen and Marie Burgess. Each girl maintains a record of IF YOU OWN A BERTHIOT ZOOM LENS, YOU WILL NEED THIS F&B TAKES THE WIGGLE OUT OF ZOOMS WITH THE BEELAND ELECTRIC ZOOM CONTROL Here 1$ a fugged yet light weight conltol that assures you of smooth zoom action from start to fmish of each shot. Mounts directly on the lens barrel, no camera attachments are required. Interchangeable mounting clamps allow the same control to be used for the l7mm to 70mm. and 17mm to 85mm lenses tor 16mm cameras. and the 38mm to 150mm iens for 35mm cameras The camerman can control the picture size by eye or can pre-set the zoom range by quick-set limit stops on the quadrant, A silicon loaded slip clutch and mechanical limit stops provide precise control of the zoom ange. The control box is equipped with instant contact pushbuttons for easy finger-tip operation of zoom-in or zoom-out. The box mounts on a tripod handle, or directly on the camera for handheld operation. It also may be held and operated by an assistant. Speed range is rheostat controlled and adjustable from pproximately 2i/2 seconds to 10 seconds of zoom time. A special feature is the very efficient motor which operates for hundreds of moves on one set of 5 type "C" flashlight batteries. Two models are available: Regular, where noise is not a problem. Super-quiet, where whisper-quiet operation is needed for sound recording. Serving the World's Fiiwst Film Makers FI^ORACA.N & Bi^SB, INC. 68W.45thSt.,N.Y.36 MU 2-2928 • Smooth, quiet zoom action . Easy lioger-tip operation • Precise zoom range control . Zoom speeds from 2' 2 to 10 seconds . Interchangeable-lor 16mm and 35mm cameras. . Mounts directly on lens barrel .Uses type •C" flash light batteries the free-film preferences and current programming habits of each station they service. The records are used as an immediate source of reference during telephone conversations. ^ ^^^ INaiiie "Cast" for Dream Picture ^ in a "Sereeninf; Kooni" Prize! i< The story goes something lii^e this: one evening after a tough day of Rheingold commercials shooting, Don Franz of J. Waher Thompson and Dave Monahan of MPO were having dinner. They were trv'ing to relax but they just couldn't get their minds off film. Out of that conversation came a list of an "ideal" cast and crew of a dream film Franz and Monahan were working on. It contained names like Morrie Ziduals, the virile leading man; Dolly Inn. the ingenue; 'Arry Flex, an English comic; Otto Focus, the Director of Photography; Marcus Feet, a Shakespearean character actor; Onlo Kayshun, an inarticulate male model; and Otto Sink. the sound man. There are more, but Franz and Monahan asked for help. So Don Greene, editor of MPO's house publication. The Screening Room. decided to run a contest of sorts. Business Screen readers are invited to take part by suggesting film names that will be selected for the final crew and cast. Winners are promised some kind of a prize — maybe a reel of the worst of last-year's out-takes. We'll publish the full winning list of printable names when the contest is over. The totally biased judge is the editor of The Screening Room. All his decisions are final unless his wife overrules him. He'll send everyone who enters a souvenir. No official entry forms — write it on the back of an old script, if you have to. Send your entries to The Screening Room. MPO, 222 East 44th Street, New York 17. Contest closes about October 10. ^ * * * ^'BinP^ .Stone l{ea<ls .Allserviee Film Lal>4»ratory in IVew York •k Allservice Film Laboratories, Inc., specializing in black & white processing, has been established at 35 West 45th Street in New York City. Burton "Bud" Stone is president. The new lab will offer 35mm and 16mm black & white service lor TV and industrial producers and distributors. Dailies, sound tracks, opticals, negatives and release prints are being processed on a round-the-clock basis. ^ 60 BUSINESS SCREEN MAGAZINE