Business screen magazine (1967)

P^VR rilENON yy IMCTURES lun.l.^" wool) The Parthenon staff, as it embarks on t)ie making of new types of commnnication product, to be utih'zed in new and more effective wavs, wislies to express its sincere and heartfelt thanks to the men and women in our sponsors" organizations who ha\e worked with us o\er the >ears in making |jictures to wliich we can all look back with honest satisfaction: AMERICAN MEDICAL P.A.C. W'vatt lor Congress How to Stand Up and NOT Be C:ounted How llif Opinion Maker Makes Opinions AMERICAN OIL COMPANY LoN'e That Car Holiday lor Bands Schooled in Safety Shr Pnrrs Like a Kitten Happ)' Holidays . . . . . . Along the Potomac . . . Anwhere in Michigan ... In the Land of Lincoln AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE Three for Tomorrow AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY The Extra Step Slips and Falls Horizons Beyond May 1 Help Yon? Tools of Telephony An Answer for Linda Television in Education BANK OF AMERICA The File on Henry Rovall THE BORDEN COMPANY Hail the Heartv CARNATION COMPANY The Case of the Bewildered Bride MUTUAL AND UNITED OF OMAHA Two Cheers for Charlie NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RETAIL DRUGGISTS Bartlett and Son THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION Fair Chance The C^ostlv Crowd CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Outside That Envelope FORD MARKETING INSTITUTE Heavy (loing The Hardesty Case Love Thv Customer GENERAL DYNAMICS Locked On GENERAL TELEPHONE & ELECTRONICS CORP. In Touch With the Future HILTON HOTELS A Hotel Is Born INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY Collectors' Item Headline for Harper Man With a Thousand Hands KAISER ALUMINUM COMPANY The Ne.xt Ten Modern liasic Refractories MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE. FENNER & SMITH Good Old Sam MOBIL OIL Fire and the Wheel STANDARD OIL OF INDIANA This Is Standard Oil U.S. INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION The Independent Everyhody Has Two Jobs THE UPJOHN COMPANY With CJare and Concern The Research Environment in Industry PARTHENON PICTURES Cap Palmer, Executive Producer 2625 Temple Street, Los Angeles 90026 (Area 213) 385-3911 right off the newsreel: New York Film Producers Hold Grand Ball: Greet New Officers TVI hW Ol-FICIKS AND DiRtC lOUS -^ of the Film Producers Association of New York were announced at the association's first Grand Ball, held at the Plaza Hotel in New York on March 1 1. Elected for the 1967-S term were Thomas J. Dunford ( Pelican Films, Inc.), president; John Babb (F&B/Ceco, Inc.) vice-president; Lee Bobker (Vision Associates, Inc.). secretary; and Morris Behrend (WCD. Inc.). re-elected as treasurer. Mayor Receives FPA Plaque New York's Mayor John \' Lindsay received the FPA's Film Award from outgoing president Lou Mucciolo for "his magnificent efforts toward making New York an outstanding center for film production." A tumultous ovation greeted Lindsay from the capacity crowd of over 500 attending the ball as he accepted the handsome, hand-wrought bronze plaque. It was the first of its kind ever extended any individual or association by the FPA. The award will now become an annual event. The Mayor was cited, according to executive director Harold Klein, for creating a one-stop location shooting permit procedure which provides greater availability of city buildings, schools, parks, etc. and for the agreement reached with local craft organizations which permits production of complete features under West Coast contract provisions. * * * Meet the FPA's New President Thomas J. Dunford. new president of the FPA, is president of Pelican Films, Inc., a leading producer of TV commercials and industrial films, with offices in New York. Detroit and Hollywood. He has played an important role in industry activities for many years. Joe Dunford first c;mie under the spell of the photographic process while an undergraduate at Dartmouth. As a member of the staff of the Life-format Dartmouth Pictorial, and its editor in his senior year, he found himself so much interested in visual I communications that he deterj mined to make it his career. Dunford joined The Jam Handy ! Organization in Detroit in 1940, shortly after graduation, as a mo Mayor Lindsay receives FPA award from pant president Lou Mucciolo at ceremonies during Grand Ball. tion picture script writer. He continued in this post, generally branching into production work, on films for the Navy wartime training program until 1943. Active service in the Navy, still in the training film program, followed, until 1946, when he joined Transfilm, Inc.. in New York, as production manager of the slidefilm department. By 1 95 1, he was general production manager. Organized Pelican in 19.54 From 1951 to 1954, he was executive vice-president of Depicto Films, Inc., and then, with Jack Zander, organized Pelican Films, Inc., as an animation studio, in 1954. In 1960. the company opened live action studios, and has been active in almost every phase of audio-visual communications ever since. Outside of the office, Joe Dunford lives in Manhattan, and spends as many spare hours as he can get sailing and skiing. He was a member of the Dartmouth ski team, along with Olympic champion, Dick Durrance. Durrance preceded him by one year as editor of the Dartmouth Pictorial, is also a film producer, and both have cooperated on joint film projects in recent years. Dunford has two sons, one with the State Department in Ecuador, Below: President-elect Joe Dunford i,s eon^ratidated by FPA's executive director Harold Klein. BUSINESS SCREEN • 1967