Business screen magazine (1967)

SCREEN EXECUTIVE Fletcher to Direct Marketing for Technicolor's C&E Division ■sV Douglas S. Fletcher is now manager of marketing for the Commercial and Educational Division of Technicolor. Inc. Fletcher joined the company earlier this year as assistant to Division vice-president and general manager Robert T. Kreiman. He will be responsible for marketing of audiovisual equipment, commercial products and retail sales of the Division. • * * « Studio City, Inc., North Miami Names Four to Top Exec Posts ^ Major realignment of executive posts at Studio City, Inc., motion picture production complex in North Miami. Florida, has been announced by board chairman David L. Brady. New president of Studio City is Arnold O. Leeds, former producerdirector at MPO-Videotronics. Inc.; Paul L. Jacobson. formerly of Jalor Productions in New York, is now executive vice-president in charge of productions. He will headquarter at Studio City's new ofiBces in Manhattan. Costel B. Grozea will direct the newly-created special effects department at Studio City. One of the leading special effects specialists in the industry. Grozea created effects for such major films as War and Peace. A Farewell to Arms, The Battle of Austerlitz. and other productions. Robert Demme has also been appointed public relations director for the center in North Miami. • * * * Kushnick Heads Eastern Sales of Fairchild 8mm A-V Systems it Donald Kushnick is now a regional sales manager according to Nat C. Myers. Jr.. group manager of educational and audiovisual systems, Fairchild Industrial Products. He will be responsible for East Coast sales, sales promotion and dealer-manufacturer liaison for that company's line of 8mm audiovisual systems. • * * * Vacho Appointed Vice-President of Storck Productions, St, Louis ir Pierre Vacho has been appointed vice-president of Shelby Storck & Co., of St. Louis. Previously associated with Guggenheim Productions. Norwood Studios and John Sutherland Productions, Vacho is a graduate of the Motion Picture Division of UCLA. 68 g-v equipment trade fair NEW PRODUCTS & ACCESSORIES FOR PRODUCTION AND PROJECTION New Videotape Camera System is Developed by F&B Ceco Engineer >'<. A new videotape camera system permitting both recording on videotape and instant TV monitoring of the actual through-thelens image as it is being filmed has been developed by F&B; Ceco. Inc., New York. Specifically designed by F&B/ Ceco Chief Engineer. Ray Emeritz, for Selmur Productions' upcoming feature film. Charlie, the new system utilizes a Sony video camera, a four-inch swivel-mounted moni ColorTran's LQFlO-50 "Supertor on a Mitchell BNC with Reflex Beam" "1000", new lensless fixture. Conversion bv F&B Ceco. a nine A Brighter LQFIO Lensless Light Fixture Latest from ColorTran X A new lensless light fixture approaching the intensity range of a standard 2K Fresnel unit has been introduced by ColorTran Industries, Inc. The model LQF 10-50 Super-Beam "1000" permits smooth and accurate focusing from spot to flood with a ratio of II to 1 . Using the new 1000-watt ( 3200-degrees K) tungsten-halogen "quartz" single-ended frosted lamp, the fixture operates directly from 120 volts. AC or DC, without boosting. The Super-Beam "1000" produces 50 to 560 footcandles at 20 feet from flood to spot focus positions. Two and four-leaf barndoors rotate 360 degrees and fold flat. Write: ColorTran Industries. Inc., 1015 Chestnut St.. Burbank, Calif. 91502 for descriptive brochure. • * * * Reeves "Airmobile-Video System" Available for Worldwide Rental ■: A portable color videotape production system with cameras, effects, controls and monitors all packed into standard jet air-freight containers was demonstrated to producers and sponsors on October 3 at the Americana Hotel. New York, by Reeves Sound Studios. The Airmobile-Video System is designed to be able to reach any jet port in the world within a 24hour shipping period. On arrival, the packages fit into any van-type rental trucks available world-wide. Thus, producers can use videotape at locations unreachable by trailertruck units. The System has three basic types of modules: camera units, switching and monitoring units and video tape recorder units. These basic modules go together F&B 'Ceco videotape camera system inch monitor by the videotape recorder, and a 23-inch auxihary monitor for both actual shooting and playback viewing. Emeritz notes that "this is the first time a BNC Reflex has been converted for VTR, with full lens interchangeability." He explained that "the entire system is completely flickerless, since the F&B/ Ceco BNC Reflex features a beam-splitter rather than a mirror shutter. Previous systems using an adjacent VTR camera were not capable of recording zoom shots as our new through-the-lens system does." In addition to the \'TR, this same BNC Reflex was also converted for Techniscope — another "first" for the eni;ineering skills of F&B Ceco's 35-man camera modification shop. The special VTR-BNC Reflex camera system is now available for rental to all F&B /Ceco customers. • * * • Pro-Gramo UN100 Adds Taped Sound to Filmstrips, Slides " A new tape cartridge system. Pro-Gramo UN100. for use with any filmstrip or slide projection (with provision for remote control operation ) has been introduced by Ehrenreich Photo-Optical Industries, Inc. of New York. • in a "building block" technique t give any combination of 1-6 can eras and 0-2 tape recorders. Eac combination is complete with a necessary generators, cables, mike tripods, air conditioning, etc. fi full plug-together convenience. General specifications of the tem include Norelco Plumbico color cameras with Taylor-Hobsc 21-210 mm zoom lenses; Anipc VR2000 recorders; Nagra aud, recorders; extensive switchin audio and video control mechai isms; Onan 15 KW power gene ators; and combination air cond tioning and heating units. The AirmobileVideo System available from Reeves Sound Sti dios in New York on a rental baM nglj GE's axial Quartzline pro/ei lamp puts 4 elements in one GE Photo-Lamp Announces SingI Unit Projection Light System * A new projection light sy^ combining lamp. condenser-reliL tor, lampholder, and socket in single unit was introduced ' month by the General Ele^ Photo Lamp Department. The i axial Quartzline lighting sy-i fits within a two-inch cube ai , features a powerful quartz Ian | the size of a jelly bean. Six low-voltage models a available; except for a 24-\o 200-watt unit designed to projc films in airliners, all are 21-vt 150-watt systems. According Lester W. Dettman. general ma ager of the Photo Lamp Depai ment. the new long-life, hig brightness units "offer a wi scope of potential applications, i eluding I6mni and 8mm projc tors. " Model EJV is already bei used in the Technicolor "lOOi 8mm cartridge sound projectc model EJS is used in the Java 8mm cartridge rear-screen soui projector. BUYERS LOOK TO BUSINESS SCRE FOR THE FINEST IN A-V PRODUC BUSINESS SCREE