Business Screen Magazine (1965-1966)

I ILM iM<()i)i c:krs ASSOCIIATION, INC. \ \ I lON.M, OMICLHS 1966 1967 President Cfiie Martiis llnngiMi.s GeniTiil DxTiamics/ Pomona Chaplcni N'icc-Prcsident \lkh.w\ J. Ri-fse Rcfse Ciiu-nia Scmces Financial Vice-President Halph Hall Ralph Hall FrodiicHons o 0 e Fditorial \ icc-Prcsidiiit Roy L. Deets Roy L. Dt-ets & Associates P;ist President l)r. Harold (J. Djniilorth • • • Recording Secretary Elaine M. Dolnicic Official Publication Business Sckt tn Magazine NATIONAL CHAPTERS I^s Angeles Chapter .S(t)ft Robertson, Chairman Northern California Chapter I.arr> I'llhy. Cliairuuin .San DieKoCliapter Stan Follis, Cliairnuiu The Eighth Animal IFP\ rONFFRFNCE and 10th Anniversary June 1-2-3, 1967 Miiarnar Hotel, Santa Monica O O • For Information, Write Industry Film Prods. Assn. Post Office Rox 1.395 I lidiisand Oaks, flalifonn'a (CONTINllED FROM PAGE 51) craman from 1*^28 to 1940. when he cnlisicd in the Army Air Corps. While serving as a combat photographer in the European theater, he earned a eombat conmiission in 1943. Landing at Hiroshima less than a month after the atomic bomb drop, McGovern (then a motion picture producer), filmed documentaries of the elTccts of the bombing on the Japanese people there and in Nagasaki. L-aier assignments included those of Photo Project Otliccr for the Atomic Energy Connnission"s test programs in Nevada and the Marshall Islands. He also headed the Documentary Photo Element for Joint Task Force Sevens atomic tests in the Pacific. In 1958 he was sent to Vandenberg Air Force Base to organize a specialized technical photo facility for instrumentation and documentary photography of ballistic missiles, space systems launchings and tests. He retired with the rank of Lt. Colonel in September. 1961, after 2 1 years of active military service, all in the field of photography. McGovern is a member of live professional photographic societies and resides, with his family, at Northridge, C"alif. Gene Lemon has been named as new chief of the photography branch at Edwards AFB. • Meet IFPA's First Presidciil: Dan Downer IN This Tenth Anniversary year of the Industry Film Producers Association, the spotlight is appropriately turned on the man who won the approval of our founding members to become IFPA"s first president: Daniel B. Downer. Although it wasn't easy to get Dan to divulge many of those "vital statistics'" we do know that he attended Bowdoin College and was graduated from Pomona College in 1941 with a B.A. degree. Answering the call to military service in World War II, he soon found himself stationed at Ladd Field in Fairbanks, Alaska. Dan Disc<)\ ers a New \\'orld Did a career in the film business begin here? As Dan tells the story, while conducting information-education programs on the base, he got ""hooked" on the smell of film stock and decided that here was a great potential for the civilian world. He was only slightly chagrined when he realized later that a good many people had made the same discovery a lew decades before. In 1446, on his return to Los Angeles, Dan Downer determined to get a solid grounding in the film business. He tackled nearly every phase: salesman, grip, writer, gaffer, truck driver, production management, direction and even set decoration, separately and concurrently. He was usually able to make a full-time living in the process. Joins Northrop Missile Division following posts with F-rederick k kockelt (one of the industry's H.il pioneers) and Masien Pictures • • Hollywood. Dan joined the au> visual section of Northrop Air1.1 s Missile Division and was If P.\ pioiii-ci : Daniel Downer later transferred to that company's motion picture activity. Late in 1953. he moved to the AerojetGeneral Corporation facilities in Azuza to head the motion picture program. It was during this active period in the defense industry that the need for an association of "in|ilant" production people became obvious to many of its a-v principals. First exploratory "get-togethers" were held at the Palms Restaurant on HollywiH>d Boulevard. We're not sure whether those long hours of discussion with minimal food checks led to the Palms' e\entual tleinise but that was the birthplace of IFPA! 'I'hosr \\ ho Shared the \ision Recalling thi>se early days, Dan Downer remembers many of the people who took place in those formative sessions: the late Jay Gordon of Autonetics; Bob Guniher of North American Aviation; Ralph Hall and Eugene Keefer of Convair; Julian l-ly of Lockheed: Gene Burson. then with Hughes Aircraft; Bob Scott, William Gibson and Jack Gabrielson, of Douglas; Jack Smith of Ramo-Wool 52 dridge; Betty Jane William'Ki Brown. Phil Carpenter, rv Ashe, and many, many ha whose names have a| through the years in these J( pages. This talent-loaded, outsi dn group of people were the piTn tors of IFPA. They choDowner to lead them throu first trying year of orgui and planning for the future Now Heads Own Film Con In 1959, Dan left Aeroi eral to form an independi company in partnership wi ,, late Dick Bisbee. For thcp three years, he has headed i Hollywood company for it duction of business films. I ahead to the future of IFPAU. says : "With the expanding inw and activities of IFPA in thca ous facets of the film indust.i perhaps we'd better call i I 'comnumications industr%''. r newed interest has been gc: in this organization. I>ooks (o W orldwide Ties ■'1 anticipate that within thiK 10 vears, IFPA could bee solidlv-based international < ation. There are many usci nificant functions and servi>.wi. organization can provide to ae ly-increased number of filters throughout the world, the overall advancement olR craft." Well be looking to Dan D(i« for help in realizing those (B tives during the conn'ng decat * * * "New Paths lo Learning" Si* Systems Approach lo Aid Con ■'" A 15-minutc coUn film \K describes a ""svstems approac i higher education has been reli< by Litton Industries. The ■ New Paths to I. earning;. s« how this approach is beine * at a newlv-established MicU college and points out that il • designed to gain maximum sti^ and teacher time at a lower' per pupil. Bv 1970. more than half od V. S. population will be be^fl IS and 28, notes the film. An*" that year, applications for co' admission arc expected to inci ' by more than 50 per cent, R o f> k i n g s can be arra ' throueh the Motion Picture J" ices Department. 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