Business screen magazine (1946)

We were naturally a bit puffed up when the first film we ever produced,* back in 1948, won a top Award at the Cleveland Film Festival. * "HIGH-WAY TO HAWAII" for Vniled Air Lines Since then, awards have been coming with increasing frequency, until in 1952, Gate & McGlone films were honored at nearly every important film competition in the United States and Europe. Here's the list. . . NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON FILMS FOR SAFETY "Day in Court" (International Harvester Company) BOSTON FILM FESTIVAL "United 6534" (United Air lines) "Day in Court" EDINBURGH FILM FESTIVAL "United 6534" VENICE FILM FESTIVAL "United 6534" PORTLAND FILM FESTIVAL "United 6534" TOLEDO BUSINESS FILM FESTIVAL "Day in Court" And now the latest! by the National Visual Presentation Association and the Sales Executives Club of New York, for the best sales presentation on film in 1952 . . . "KING of the COWBOYS" (Roy Rogers Enterprises) Maybe ire can help you produce an award-ivinning film in 19.'y3 GATE & McGLONE Films lor Industry 1521 CROSS ROADS OF THE WORLD • HOLLYWOOD 28, CALIFOR NIA Studio Reports Transfilm Opens Air-Condilioned Studio Floor in NY Building ♦ A iii]Ti|)lctcl\ air-<iiii(litiiiiii-il motiuii picture sound studio covering an entire floor of the Tran.sfilm Building at 35 West 45th Street has just been opened for production. The studio will be a major factor in increased television film production at Transfilm Incorporated, and affirms the Company's faith in New York film production. The decision to turn an entire floor of a Fifth Avenue office building into a studio is in line with Transfilms policy of keeping all production and executive facilities under one roof. Acquisition and development of the studio spreads Transfilm's tenancy of the building to five floors. The studio, which incorporates many of the most modern design features for motion picture production also boasts a built-in, building-width "cyclorama," a twowalled, double-traveler track allowing free positioning of curtains, a fully mechanized machine shop equipped with power tools for scenery construction and a completely cross-indexed prop storage from which Company boasts it can select any prop available in less than three minutes. Grids and built in "gang boxes" in the ceiling facilitate overhead lighting from any angle. Suspended cable in the ceiling minimizes necessity for floor cable, thus providing more efficient working conditions. The studio also features conventional spider boxes for standard lighting. Marc Asch Joins Von Praag * As a further step in current expansion of his company. William Van Praag, president of Van Praag Productions, has announced the appointment of Marc S. Asch as a vice-president and producer in the industrial and TV film division. Before joining Van Praag, Mr. Asch was civilian chief of film production for the U. S. Air Force and responsible for production and direction of training films, documentaries and TV productions. Mr. Asch is co-holder of several Academy Awards and revolutionized the editing field with his invention of the first film editing chart, the basic source of all subsequent similar devices. He served in the Army Signal Corps Photo Center in New York as a Major, and upon his release joined United World Films, a subsidiary of Universal Fii lures. While Associate Producer and Chief Film Editor of United World, Mr. Asch made, among iiiany other films, a series of track and field shorts in lollaboration with the AAU and the Olvmpic rnrnniiltcc. Princeton Completes 52 for TV ♦ The Princeton Film Center, Inc. of Princeton, N. J. and New \ ork City, has completed fifty-two Norman Brohcnshire, The Handyman, programs, a five minute television series produced in cooperation with David Lown. A total of 260 subjects are planned. The series, featuring Norman Brokenshire. has been sponsored by Royal Bedding Company. Black & Decker Company and The Stanley Works and United Artists Television Corporation, who handles the sales, reports that additional markets have been sold subject to time clearance. Expand AAinneapolis Production As Empire Moves to Larger Quarters ♦ Empire Photo.solnd Inc. has announced the completion of its firm's moving from its former building to its greatly expanded plant at 1920 Lyndale Avenue. Minneapolis. Bill Yale, president of Empire, pointed out that in only seven years' time, the firm has completely outgrown its former facilities. Empire's new building houses a 3,500 foot sound stage, recording studios and control rooms, a preview" screening room, modern offices and production quarters, editing rooms, studios for artwork and soundslide film studios, plus a variety of other facilities to serve the Twin Cities and the Upper Midwest of the United States. MOVIOLA FILM EDITING EQUIPMENT 16MM-35MM . PICTURE I SOUND Photo and . SYNCHRONIZERS . REWINDERS BUSINESS SCREEN MAGAZINE