Business screen magazine (1946)

but you'll rarely find him filling this chair. Right now — as usual — he's out . . . fitting film to a client's needs, right down to that last very important frame. He's a TRANSFILM Account Executive selected for his broad business and sales background and his ability to translate ideas onto film. This work often fakes him out into the field. That's where he is now . . . and the shiny swivel chair has been left to fend for itself. That's one good reason TRANSFILM Productions do the job for which they were ordered. Because they are produced by active businessmen who con "double in celluloid" and by film producers who know their business. At TRANSFILM, better films for business are produced by men who demand perfection, of themselves, of each other, of everyone who participates in the making of a motion picture. 35 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK 36, N. Y. JUdson 2-1400 Dr. Wetzel Will Receive SMPTE Award for Magnetic Tape Work ♦ Dr. W. W. Wetzel of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company will receive the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers' Samuel L. Warner Award foi 1953 for his contributions to development of magnetic tapes and films for sound recording. The selection was made by the Society's board of directors. The award is presented annually as a memorial to the late Mr. Warner, who with his brothers, Harry M., Albert and Jack L. Warner, pioneered in the field of talking pictures a generation ago. Presentation of the award will take place on the opening day of the 74th semi-annual convention of the Society, October 5-9, at the Hotel Statler in New York. Keynote address, at the opening luncheon meeting, will be delivered by Henry J. Taylor, radio commentator and author. All phases of the current changes and new developments in motion pictures and television will be discussed at the sessions and meetings of the convention. Because of the unusual interest in new techniques at this time, the Society has announced that the convention will be open to every branch of the financial and entertainment management of American show busi Biological Photographic Group Elects Warren Sturgis President Warren Sturgis, president of Sturgis-Grant Productions, Inc., has been elected president of the Biological Photographic Association for 1954, and has been made a Fellow of the Association. Mr. Sturgis has been a director of the B.P.A. since 1950, and its vicepresident in 1952 and 1953. Mr. Sturgis said there is increasing interest at this time in the professional work carried on by biological and medical photographers, in which motion pictures play a large part. During the next year he plans an expansion of the ser\'ices to members of the B.P.A., and a drive to make these services better known to the members' potential professional and commercial clients. Columbia Will Produce Picture with Grant from Republic Fund ♦ Part of a grant from the Fund for the Republic will be used by Columbia University to produce a motion picture on its Bicentennial theme, "Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof." The announcement was made by Dr. Grayson Kirk, president of the university. Besides the film, recordings for radio broadcast and several pamphlets will be financed by the $40,000 grant. A second grant of $4,500 is for a two-day conference sponsored by Columbia and the American Foreign Law Association to take place in 1954. The Fund for the Republic was created by the Ford Foundation which endowed it with $15 million last February. It is independent of the Foundation and exists to strengthen the basic rights of the Con stitution, and to "support activities directed toward the elimination of restrictions on freedom of thought inquiry and expression in the United States. Elwood M. Russey, Photography Director at Byron, Dies Aug. 26 ♦ Byro.n, Inc. has announced the death, on August 26, of Elwood M. Russey, director of photography. An officer and on the board of directors, Mr. Russey has been with the organization since its incorporation in 1938. Producers from many parts of the world have worked with Mr. Russey. called "Russ," and many will remember him for his effective assistance and wide technical knowledge of the motion picture industry. Mr. Russey, 46, is survived by his wife and two children. 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