Business Screen Magazine (1965-1966)

MOTION PICTURES SLIDE FILMS FLIP CHARTS • SLIDES SEYMOUR ZWEIBEL PRODUCTIONS Convenient Studio Facilities for all types of production • I. New York City gotham fi I IIIM productions ^inc. ELEVEN EAST 44th STREET NEW YORK Murray Hill 2-4450 1 1 EAST 44th STREET . NEW YORK 1 7 Murray Hill 2-4450 ^ Trends iii ihc BUSINESS of Audiovisull Eastman Kodak Earnings Up l8''o; Company's "Besl Year to Date" ■sir A sales and earnings report for 1966 that put it aniont; America's top growth companies has been issued by the Eastman Kodak Company. Albert K. Chapman, chairman and William S. Vaughn, president, reported consolidated sales of the company U.S. units for 1965 at $1,463,485,000 — 18 per cent above the 1964 figure and the highest percentage increase in 14 years. Eastman Kodak's 1965 net earnings were reported at $247,625.000 based on the 80,602,708 shares outstanding at the year end. There were 18,500 more shareholders in '65 than in the previous year. Summing up the glowing report. Chapman and Vaughn stated "against a background of general economic expansion, the company's sales and earnings rose to new high levels in 1965. It was Kodak's best year to date. Amateur photographic products set the pace. There was good progress also in commercial and professional markets." According to the latest Kodak report, the film's commercial, professional and industrial photographic sales have grown at an average rate of 9 per cent. The 1965 sales rise in this area was set at 1 1 per cent. • m * * United Shareowners to Honor Moviclab's "Excellent Relations" ■ft Moviclab, Inc. will receive the 1 965-66 Management-Shareowner Award of the United Shareowners of America, Inc. for "excellent relations" with shareowners, it was announced by Daniel Eisenberg. Vice President-Finance of the film laboratory. United Shareowners of America. Inc., the nationwide association which fosters and develops better understanding between management and shareowners. will present the award at Moviclab's annual meeting scheduled to be held at the Moviclab Ruilding in New York City on May lOtli. In a letter received from Benjamin Javits, USA Inc. president, and Charles E. Wilson, chairman of USA's National Advisory Committee, announcing the award, Moviclab's president Saul Jeffee was told "this award serves as our acknowledgement of your contribution to the basic and proper erowlh of the national cconomv. 88 A cross section of American sarc4 owners also recognizes thisfacti ... We are justly proud ofioiid efforts in this direction." • MPO Vidcotronies, Inc. Rep i. Higher Sales, Earnings for l> ■;■■ The annual report of Videotronics, Inc. for the year ended October 31, shows sales for the year at ord high of $14,641,611. pared with sales of $12,2" for the previous year, a 19 i increase. Earnings after taxes in were $476,098, which was lual to $1.02 per share (combed Class A and Class B shares la the preceding fiscal year r come after taxes was S25 or $.54 per share, which in 19c' per share resulting fri'i , sale of a capital asset. MPO Videotronics, one othe nation's largest producers of ;l^ vision commercials and sponMjed films for training, sales p: tion, and education, is nov^ ducing a first full-length feun for theatrical and TV rele;^ i" cooperation with ABC MPO also manufactures an^ kets an 8mm sound rcpeatin tion picture projector for ;lc> and training use. Shares are tricii on the American Stock Exch.ic * * ♦ Motion Picture. Consumer Plo Gains Noted by Tcehnicolor.pc ■ft Technicolor, Inc. rcvc;i net sales for 1965 were $9( 000 and net income was S 000 — a drop from the prc\>u: vear. The Motion Picture Divot and the Consumer Photocr.iw Division led ail other division' n! significant gains. Sales of T color's cartridge-loading pi' for commercial and cdui use were considerably higher ai in 1964. Eversharp, Inc. has dc\ a new Super-8mm half-houi .■• ridge loading sound itrojccloro Technicolor, Inc. Plans call introduction in 1966. * ♦ * Modern Learning Aids to Hall Avalon Daggett's Teaching \i^ •;■ Avalon Daggett ProductiM Baton Rouge, La. prodiu educational and industrial pictures has appointed "^ learning Aids, a division > ern Talking Pictures Servi. as the distributor of its cdut.ui" releases to the nation's school' BUSINESS SCREEN •