Business Screen Magazine (1965-1966)

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Look 10 Mecca lormeiesr io 10 mm & 35 mm :>^ i- Hl For over a quarter-centuiy film people eve^ere have come to depend on icca for the best in quality and sen/ice. b MECCA FILM LABORATOK S CORPORATION FILM CENTER BLDG., 630 NINTH AVE., NEW YORK. N.Y. 10036 • CO 5-7676 10 SMn i: Observes lis Look Io Future aiitl Past at Fii TV Goi DEN Years of free exchange of technical knowledge between members of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers covering a broad range of scicntilic and technical progress in the arts and science of communication were observed October 2-7, 1966, as 1,200 members of the Society gathered at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles for their 100th Technical Conference. Meetings are held on a semi-annual basis. The 1966 Progress Medal of SMPTE was awarded to Dr. Wesley T. Hanson, assistant director of Kodak Research Laboratories, in recognition of his work on the concept of color couplers, chemicals incorporated in film to produce colored dyes in the final image. Dr. Hanson's work has led to new types of couplers resulting in signiticant improvements in the quality of color positives for motit)n picture and television use. Look to Photography's Future Technical papers presented at the Conference looked to the future as much as the past. There were details about pictures that can now be taken at the rate of \5 million frames per second; flash bulbs with a flare speed in the billionth of a second. Members heard about the potential use of laser beams for large screen theater and home television application and of a new space camera for unmanned space flight. Standards to improve color television transmission and reception without switching and tuning were discussed. "It's ditlicult for the layman to realize the fantastic development in photography since the tirst crude images," said SMPTF. president Ethan Stifle. "For instance, the aerial photograph today captures 100 times as much information on a negative as was possible at the end of World War H. And the achievement in photography of Surveyor 1 with its jiictures of the Moon exceed thai b\ far." ASC Film: a Pictiin of Trotrrcss The historic past was observed on this 50tli ,\nniversary program by such events as an American Society of Cinematographcrs' film review of advances in photography, research, engineering and production as they contributed ti> the art of motion pictures. The hour and a half-long lilm includes scenes from the earlv films of l-klison and Golden Aniii\er.'-n lOOth Terhniral (litnfena Edwin Porter, continuing t|| the tirst sound and talkin; color up to today's wide stereo sound 70mm film "special" included both e recent examples of procei tography, special effects, shots and traveling b( quences. The keynote of the Am Conference was sounded a| together luncheon at whic! cnce L. A. Wynd of kodak talked on "A and One Nightmares." * * * Industrial Audio-Visual Exi Hold Fall Meeting ai Tapoc v: The annual fall meetinu Industrial Audio-Visual . tion. held October 3-6 Tapoco Lodge in North ( was highlighted by the gi pearance of Dr. James Lie director of the U. S. Publii Service Audio-Visual Faci lanta, Ga. Dr. Lieberma on "A-V: Solution to a C which he discussed the vi of audio-visuals in mcetin; health problems. Other guest speakers on gram arranged by the South gion members of I.WA w E. T. Egger. professor of ment at Georgia State Coll lanta; and Dr. Cabot JafTi vcrsity of Tennessee educai spoke on the "Empirical tions of Audio-Visuals." Co-chairmen of the fall were Martin Broadwell. 5 Bell Telephone Co. and L. Morton, Alcoa. Memb guests at Tapoco Lodge « comed by Lawrence B. \V Link-Belt Company, pre^ the association. CINE in New Washington V: New offices for The on International Nonlh Events (CINE) have been in Washington. D.C. at I? Street. N.W. The mail adi mains the same as it has the past eight years: I teenth St., N.W.,'Washingti 20036. ClNE's telephone num remains the same; (202! I 136. In charge of the .lames M. Culver, managii lor and treasurer. ♦ * * • ■ In our next: a 1967 Guide to Film Production BUSINESS SCREEP ,,