Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

Trade News George Marenzana, manager, and Miss Sonia Sperduti, secretary oi the service dept., are checking in the "ten oldest." New Victors for Old The hunt for the ten oldest Victor sound projectors, conducted by the Victor Animatography Company, brought to light ten Model 1 2's, made in 1933, all of them still in use. The oldest. Serial number 12005, is the fifth such machine made. New Model 65/10 Victor Assembly Projectors, in exchange for the intage machines, go to: Dale W. DeArmond, Wichita, Kans.; Morristown National Historical Park, Morristown, N. J.; Joseph Thielmass, Los Angeles, Calif.; William Stuckel, Berwyn, III.; C, Leslie Thompson, Director of Studies, Kingston Clinic, Edinburgh, Scotland; William A. Ransom, Westfield, N. J.; Melrose Park Bible Church, Melrose Park, III.; Joseph Pavone, Providence, R. I.; Harold Ambrosch, Clendale, Calif. Course Leaders For NAVA Soles Institute Institute chairman Al Hunecke announces the appointment of course leaders and faculty coordinators for the 1 1th Annual Audio-Visual Sales Training Institute to be held at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, July 19-23. Preparation and Use of Audio-Visual Materials— Russ Yankie, Cliff Squibb, with Ed Richardson as university coordinator. Sales and Business Management — Ken Lilley, Mrs. Ann Vath; Robert Campbell. Salesmanship — Howard Holt, Guy Lam; Dr. Earl Tregilgus, Robert Cameron. Applied Selling — Howard F. Kalbfus, Miss George Allen; Marvin Dawson. Final staffing and presentation matters were left to the Board of Governors meeting in Chicago, Feb. 27-28. Technifox Opens Washington Branch A new sales branch and diazotype demonstration center has been built by Technifax Corporation at 6200 Kansas Ave., NE., Washington, DC. It features a 100-seat auditorium equipped to conduct visual communication programs similar in scope to the 3-day workshops conducted semi-annually at the Holyoke, Mass., main plant. Industry-Education Interlock An interesting example of the interlocking interests of business, education, and medical and engineering science was provided in the recent sponsorship by the Michigan Bell Telephone Company, of a (Giantview) large screen closed circuit telecast, using a ITV-6 camera attached to the overhead operating room light of Beaumont Hospital with no other illumination. The operation involved a new surgical procedure in which Dr. Michael Nadarino, of Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, repaired the bones of a shattered leg with a quick-hardening plastic foam. An audience of some 80 surgeons viewed the operation on the large screen and on two monitors in adjoining rooms. Another low budget big screen demonstration by Giantview, at the Detroit SMPTE meeting, featured a presentation on "Closed Circuit TV in Education Today," by C. M. Braun, of the Joint Council on Educational Television, picked up on an RCA TK-201 industrial type vidicon camera and projected on a 1 2' x 15' screen. Quality Equipment Sound Investment "Within the next ten years alone our schools will be called upon to ?ccommodate a student body that will have expanded by 12,000,000," is the forecast made at the recent AASA meeting at Atlantic City, by J. J. Stefan, president of the school equipment division of The Brunswicke-Balke-Collender Co. About 68,500 classrooms, in 10,500 schools, will be built this year, but if we are to catch up with the needs resulting from population growth and obsolescence of existing plant and equipment, "the schools must adopt industry's philosophy of capital outlay as an expenditure that must be equally justifiable in the future as in the present," according to Mr. Stefan. This calls for "quality equipment as well as quality construction," truly modern equipment "so that teaching methods are enhanced and advanced." Westinqhouse Promises Sealed-Beam Projector Lamps The sealed-beam principle of the auto headlamps is soon to be applied to projector lamps, according to a Westinghouse announcement. Much greater light output, low wattage, elimination of stray light and of the conventional reflector and condenser lens resulting in more compact projector design are some of the benefits promised — a year or more hence. Photo Scientists — Chicago, October The 1959 national conference of the Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers will meet October 26-30 at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel. Kodak's Charles E. Ives is papers chairman. A-V Exhibit at World Christian Education Meeting Sixteen camera manufacturers in Japan joined forces in presenting an audiovisual exhibit In connection with the 14th World Christian Education Meeting, in Tokyo, attended by 3,000 delegates from 69 countries. Da-Lite Observes 50th Anniversary Da-Lite Screen Co. is celebrating its Golden Anniversary — it started manufacture of screens in a Chicago plant in 1909. Chester C. Ccoley, president, has been with the firm for 34 years. Reeves Licenses Cousino Tope Cartridge The Cousino loop cartridge for tape recorders has been licensed by Reeves Soundcraft, tape manufacturers. The cartridge permits repetition of a continuous loop of tape without rewinding or threading into the recorder. Among the applications thus far made public are telephone answering service, sleep-learning experimentation, and multpile hearing tests. It is claimed that the recording of President Eisenhower's voice, broadcast from outer space via the Atlas, was accomplished by this type of loop cartridge. Alpex combination projector Movie Slide Combination Projector One of the oldest ideas in projector design is revived in the new "Alpex" 8mm motion picture projector which, by insertion of a slide unit into the back of its lamphouse, doubles as a slide projector as well. The Edison Kinetoscope sought to accomplish this by racking over the mechanism; the Acme elevated its entire lamphouse into alignment with a standard slide carrier; an Ampro silent 16mm projector once had a slide take-off from the side of its lamphouse. The new ALPEX -500 -Combination weighs 8 '/2 pounds, has a 500 watt lamp, 17mm f:1.4 lens, retails at $69.95 with case; the slide attachment (which can accommodate the Airequipt changers) $24.95. Allied Impex Corp., 300 4th Ave., N.Y.C. Radiant Expands AV Department In a move to give support of its audiovisual dealers. Radiant Manufacturing Corp. is increasing its AV personnel, and promises greater advertising and promotional activity. One of the sales tools provided for its dealers in a "Split-Panel" screen, one half the Radiant "Optiglow" lenticular surface, the other the conventional beaded. Veteran in Two New Firms Stanley Bowmar, one of the founders and for many years treasurer of the Metropolitan New York Visual Education Association, now a DAVI affiliate, has broadened his commercial activities to include a new filmstrip production venture involving two new firms — AudioVisual Creators, Inc., for production, and Stanbow Productions, Inc., for distribution. National Film Board of Canada and United Nations filmstrips are included in the current catalog. Prints available on 1 0-day approval. EdScreen & AV Guide — June, 1959 313