Business screen magazine (1946)

FEATURING 35mm THREE CHANNEL INTERLOCK PROJECTION MOVIELAB FILM LABORATORIES, INC. 619 West 54th Street, Hew York 19, H. Y. JUdson 6-0360 Executive Notes Ellis W. D'Arcy Is Appointed Vice-President of DeVry Corp. ♦ \V. C. DkVky. presidiTit of the DkVky Cokporation, motion picture projection equipment manufacturers, has announced the appointment of Ellis Wellington D'Arcy as vice-president of the firm. D'Arcy, who joined DeVry in 1940 as a development engineer, was named chief engineer in 1945 and served in that capacity until his present promotion. During his 13 years with the DeVry Corporation, D'Arcy played a major role in developing the DeVry JAN (joint Army-Navy approval) 16mm sound motion picture projector, a unit that today serves as the Armed Forces standard 16mm projection equipment. His more recent assignments included developing 16mm magnetic sound equipment and perfecting a foreign language sound conversion unit for extending the uses of American films in other countries. Jam Handy Appoints Del Gardner to Technical Writing Staff ♦ John Faricy. head of the Editorial Department of The Jam Handy Organization, has announced the appointment of Del C. Gardner to the technical writing staff. Mr. Gardner originally joined the Editorial Department in 1942. After three vears he left to write educational materials on industrial electronics, and in 1946 he became dean of men at the Electronics Institute of Detroit. His duties there included writing a curriculum of electronics and supervising the school's television shows. Mr. Gardner is a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers and The Engineering Society of Detroit. Robinson Becomes Animation Head at Louis Kellman Productions ♦ Keith Robinson, formerly with U.P.A. and Walt Disney Productions, has been named director of animation for Louis W. Kellman Productions. Philadelphia, a division of News Reel Laboratory. Mr. Robinson will lead a special staff of animation experts offering a complete animation service for industrial and business films and television commercials. In announcing th"" appointment. Louis W. Kellman. president, also told of plans for acquiring new animation equipment lo round-out the department's technical facilities. International Film Foundation Moves to N. Y. Carnegie Center ♦ International Film Foundation. Inc. has moved its offices to MS East 46th Street, New York, the new Carnegie Endowment International Center, according to an announcement by Julien Bryan, executive director. The International Center, located next to United Nations Headquarters, is a non-profit building financed by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, one of 11 trusts founded by Andrew Carnegie. It was constructed for the use of non-governmental organizations dedicated to purposes similar to those of the Carnegie Endowment. Ben Fox New Roland Reed V.P. ♦ M. Bernard (Ben) Fox has been named vice-president of Roland Reed Productions, Inc. Mr. Fox affiliated with the Reed Company two months ago for the production and sale of two new TV series that he created: WalerfronJ, starring Preston Foster, and Men oj Justice, starring Gene Lockhart. Kling Studios Names Cunningham Head of Film and TV Production ♦ The appointment of Richard J. "Joe" Cunningham as director of motion picture and television production for Kling Studios, Inc. has been announced by Fred A. NiLES, vice-president. Mr. Cunningham was formerly a production executive with John Sutherland Productions. Before that time he was director of motion picture production, then manager of broadcast operations for Foote, Cone and Belding. During World War II, as chief of the Air Technical Intelligence Photographic Division, he supervised the photography of some of the initial atom bomb tests. Velazco Service Studio Adds New Sound Units in Renovation ♦ New developments are going on at Emil Velazco. Inc.. in NewYork. Coincident with the producer's service organization's plans for a completely new studio, which is in the offing for fall, Velazco has added a new Western Electric variable area 200 mil push-pull direct positive and standard negative recorder, as well as a custom-built eight-position re-recording console being estimated by Cinema Engineering Corp. Velazco is planning to add further to the company's present battery of photographic, magnetic and disc recording facilities in Mid-Manhattan. "9 BUSINESS SCREEN MAGAZINE