Business screen magazine (1947)

bv ABC midwest affiliates in bioadcasting Elgin-American's eastern network Holiday Star Revue on Thanksgiving Day. Since 19J 1 ... Proven Experience in Motion Picture Production Sam Orleans AND ASSOCIATES, INC. Studios at Memphis & Knoxville Specializing in BUSINESS & TELEVISION FILMS write Knoxville '211 W. Cumberland Avenue TENNESSEE PRECISION OPTICAL PRINTING Complete Optical Printing Service by expert technicians with years of Major Studio Experience. COLOR B&W 16mm 35mm BLOW-UPS REDUCTIONS • 35mm Ansco Color theatre prints from 16mm Kodachrome. • Kodachrome Printing Masters complete with all special Optical Effects, and corrections. • 35mm blow-up work prints from 16mm originals. • Special printer for handling old and shrunken film. • Television film service. • Separation negatives for any color process. Our Optical Printer can solve many of your editorial and photographic probUmB, by the use of such mediums as frame sequence alteration, optical zooms, quality and color correction, blow-ups, etc. FILMEFFECTS of Hollywood 1153 N. Highland Avenue, Hollywood 38, California Equipped with the Academy-Award-winniug ACME-DUNN 35-16 Optical Printer Large Screen Rear Projection Idea Widely Used for Video Shows ♦ The latest development to have the tcle\ ision industry agog is the adaptation of large screen rear projection for televized shows. This technicjuc, widely used in Hollywood, puts a limitless \ariety of still or mo\ing backgrounds and special effects at ihe Imger ii]>s ol ihe director. Many EFrrcTs Are Possible At a saving of thousands of dollars and countless man-hours television can now portray, for example, a pilot flying across New York's skyline, traffic flowing along Times Square; a passing landscape as seen from a moving vehicle; in short, all of the action and backgrounds available to a Hollywood director. \ three dimensional effect is achieved by having the television camera photograph the action which takes place in front of a scieen onto which the desired background is projected. For moving backgrouirds the projector must be perfectly synchronized by an interlocking motor. S.O.S. Si'FPi.iES BoDDE Screens "Hollywood's method," says ). .\. Tanney. head of S.O.S. Cinema Supply Corp., which is making this system available, "makes use of throws up to 20(1 ft., but video studios are cramped for space. I hereforc we had to overcome the problem with special wide angle optics. " S.O.S. furnishes a seamless, tough, flameproof translucent plastic screen which eliminates the "hot spot" at the center of the picture and keeps the halltones so important for televising. Crystals imbedded in the material create a "polarized effect" which balances the preponderant foreground lighting without "washing out" the picture or diminishing its clarity. The lighting engineer (mds the Boddc screen quite easy to balance with the rest of his lighting. Rentals Sales and Repairs Mitchell Bell & Howell Eyemo Akeley Wall Cameras "Debloopers" : John Clemens Erwin Harwood , National Cine Equipment ; 20 West 22nd St., New York 10 ; Designing Manufacturing Lens Mountings 16 and 35 mm. Baltar Lenses Photometric *'f" Scaling P<fiHt .% 1 NEW SPROCKET INTERMITTENT MOVEMENT No Torn Films 2, SUPERIOR SOUND Unbelievably Lifelike 3^ COOLER & QUIETER Hoar the Film Not the Protector 4 GUARANTEED FOR LIFE * AGAINST DEFECTIVE MATERIALS & WORKMANSHIP BETTER PROJECTOR The 1949 KOLOGRAPH projector brings you a superiority unmatched outside a theatre. With the sprocket intermittent that is kind to your films — only a 3 oi. pull — and a new gear train that can't wear out, it is the very finest obtainable in projectors. A new lamp house provides greater illumination with cooler opera Ition. The amplifier is designed to eliminate "booming" which has the inevitable tendency to spoil the illusion that the person on the screen is tolking or singing. The 1949 KOLOGRAPH projector is unconditionally guaranteed for one year, and guaranteed for life against defective materials and workmanship (lamp and tube replacement excepted). The 1949 KOLOGRAPH is built to give lifetime service without repair. To hear or to try one is to be convincedl for 16mm sound or silent film projection, you can't get a finer projector than the 1949 KOLOGRAPH. Write for full information and compare it at your dealer. The name "Kolograph" is not new in 16mm projectori, the original unit having appeared mony years ago. With the new sprocket intermittent that eliminates the cruef cfaw-oncfdrag principle and substitutes a rolling-continuous-contact film flow device ^an exclusive patent^ that is kind to your films, the 1949 KOLOGRAPH is truly the peer of the 16mm Sound Projectors. Do not fail to hear it — NOW! Compare it — Comporison will provel KOLOGRAPH CORPORATION Cine Special Repairs, Modifications Animation Stands • Motors • Magic Eye Cameras SALis orncts: 6651 N. CLARK STREET CHICAGO 26, ILLINOIS Mcrouy. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA NUMBER 8 VOLUME 9 41