Business Screen Magazine (1965-1966)

"Accelcraicd Service" Offered by Acme Film & Videotape Labs ■A Requests lor "crash" delivery schedules on many of its services have brought a new "Accelerated Service" program at Acme Film & \idcotape Laboratories, Hollywood. The service provides for undivided and uninterrupted attention from inception of an "Accelerated" order to delivery time. Examples of the extra-expedited service on transfers, dupes and 16nmi prints show that it can cut as much as days off normal lab delivery time. A 60-second tapeto-film black & white commercial on which Acme requires a full day for its regular service may be cut to four hours on the "Accelerated" basis. 50 high-band 60-second videotape color dubs, requiring three days, take only eight hours when service is expedited; "A" and B" color original for answer print, a three-day Acme regular operation, is cut to two days on this special service program. • * « * Perfects New System to Make Optical Effects at Lower Cost •,'.' What is called "a revolutionary method for making optical effects through A&B printing" has been perfected by Bob Richard, film editor for Don Fedderson Productions and is presently available in 35mm Eastman color but said to be adaptable to 16mm. A patent is being sought to cover the development. A&B printing has been able to create lap dissolves and fades in TV color prints without the use of dupes but has been limited to these two types of effects. The new system, recently introduced by Richard, incorporates the use of black-and-white traveling mattes and is said to make possible all kinds of trick effects at small additional cost. Richard credits Darrcll Anderson of the Howard A. Anderson Companv and Joseph Ice of Consolidated Film Industries on the project's development. "Without their help, cooperation and encouragement," he says, "this development would have taken infinitely longer." • * * * Colburn Associates Consolidates Facilities at New Wilmelle Base •'. Effective May 31, John Colburn Associates, Inc., Wilmettc, 111. film and audiovisual materials producer, has relocated at 1215 Washington Avenue in that town, consolidating all their offices. • Men and Evenl.s Along Prod ik lion Line.> Architect's sketcli of new Crandi ij-Mills' studio Iiiiildiii<;. in BnrUngame. Grandey, Mills Share New Studio Near San Francisco's Inl'l Airport ■. • Roy Grandey Productions, established in 1949, and Mills Animation, a recent development of veteran Bob Mills' activities, now share new facilities at 1881 Rollins Road. Burlingamc, Calif., a few minutes from the San Francisco International Airport. Occupying a separate building ill a lively industrial park, the two organizations have what may well be the largest studio in the Bay Area. The arched-ceiling, drive-in structure provides a total of 7,000 square feet of floor space. Included in the modern concrete building are a pillar-free staging area of more than 3,000 square feet; sound-recording and insert studio with interlock projection; screen IN-WALL LENSCREEN Rear Projeciion Screens by POLACOAT SHARP DISTINCT PICTURES IN ROOM LIGHT /•■(('(' part iniillii>lr-scn(n system at Redstone Arsenal, lliintseille, Al(d>ama. Designed and inslalletl l>y TelePro. m^:^ciH^J^^:i is ideal for: Briefing, Training, Di.splay of Data and Information, Tracking System.s, High Speed Film Analysis, and for l''xhihit.s. Displays, Sales Presentations. Hj.^M^.-HJ.^I is ;ivail;ilil< in t;l:iss, plfxlRJa.s — lor in-wall iii.stnllati<iii aiul other plaslics — for |)()rtal>lc display. All maU'rials may be ordered by the .s(|uare foot. Use of rear screen conceals projector, eliminates distractions, speeds understanding and learning. For full information about screen materials, permanent in-wall screens, rear screen uses write today. ing room; animation studioiqi ped for both cartoon and an animation from concept ti:d camera, plus both animatn j live action effects; other xji mixing, camera test and on areas; office areas for ri;ai writing and business affair Grandey. who foundc' C Public Affairs, Hollywoo \ manager of Gene K. Walk P ductions, San Francisco, wl Roy Grandey Productioi i ceedcd. Clients served id Standard Oil Company c C fornia, Folgcr Coffee Di\ on Procter & Gamble, The Pe Corporation, The FrougcQ oration. United States St 1 ; others. Mills has been engagedn ( mation for over 20 year a ing entertainment and T a mercial needs, as well as rod ing films for business. He 'as sociated for a number c yi with TV Cartoon Procctii was a founder of Imanat Inc., selling his interest toitat Animation Graphics, no ^ Animation. His clients, un\ them award-winners, ncl Standard Oil Company ( fornia, Ortho Division of he^ Chemical Company, Wcl-F; Bank, Pacific Telephone, arr Club. Sunbeam Bread. Whether the finished ir. involves still photograjM filmstrip, animation or tion or a combination ol a motion picture, both ni i staff capabilities which sirt concept and carry throughoc pletion. Send for \oiir HIEK LENSCREEN kit lixlay! POLACOAT, INC. 972S Cenklln Rd., Blu« A*h, O. 45242 Modern Sets Up "No-En" H Facility at Los Angeles O X v: The No-En film treatn signed by the Vacuumate M ation of New York City vide trouble-free projecfio »f tinuous loop and cartridg films, is now available Coast producers, laboratc rs film users as Modern Tal ture Service, Inc. and V£ have jointly announced at national distributor's Fos in| office at 2400 West 7th S 'd been equipped to serve Pa Coast accounts. The move is of spccia nt to the Smm and 16mm c tri load film user as the inclstr that Western area now hi d local access to the "know-how" and trained ; required for this special i mcnt service, noted a-^ i trouble-free machine ojici ichi niTCiiviircc cr'oi.'E'Kl