The Film Daily (1943)

Building Remodeling vbvsSS Equipment Maintenance • • • • NEW YORK. FRIDAY, MAY 7. 1943 * * * * -WAR IMPROVEMENT PLAN SETBY FPCC New Method Assures Old Films' Restoration Gregory Unveils Process At SMPE Meet; It Means 1895-1912 Pix Rebirth That earliest motion pictures, creasured in the National Archives and never before available to public ^iew, can now be restored and shown jn the modern screen through a new method perfected by Carl L. GregDiy, motion picture engineer of the Archives. He revealed this method on Wednesday at the locally held semi-annual meeting of SMPE, and demonstrated his findings via projection of three reels of resurrected ilm, — a short made by Thomas Edi<son; the funeral of President McKinley; and a Fatty Arbuckle-Mabel \Tormand comedy. The early film companies, between 1895 and 1912, sent photographic (Continued on Page 8) Scientist Develops Fluorescent Material Dr. W. A. Weyl, professor of glass technology in the ceramics department at the Pennsylvania State Colego has discovered a new fluorescent material which gives off a warm yellow light when exposed to ultraviolet rays instead of the glaring white or bluish-white color charac (Continucd on Page 8) And the Southwest Is Plain Country! Chalk up another triumph for filmland resourcefulness! Into the busy local biz offices of S.O.S. Cinema Suppy Corp. on the week-end came the following urgent query from an itinerant tent showman somewhere in the Southwest: "Please tell me if you have progetion gloves of 1 toulson's wot's of scoo in the bottom." President J. A. Tanney and his aids, to whom S.O.S. service amounts to a commercial religion, put on their thinking caps, and evolved the translation of the puzzling message: "Please tell me if you have projection globes (lamps) 1000 watt with screw base." Equipment Field Notes Announcement this week of the merging of Bludworth, Inc., into National Theatre Supply Co., and the consequent change of corporate title of the new setup to National-Simplex-Bludworth, Inc., evoked high interest within the trade. The step is unanimously regarded by industry observers as one not only simplifying a corporate structure, but appreciably strengthens and broadens the field of NTS activities, giving the company and its associated arms both a better functional alignment wherewith to serve the nation during these war days, but also in the era after hostilities cease. * * * Work on the Harris Grand Theater in Bloomington, III., is progressing rapidly in repair of fire damage of last Summer. Roy Howard, stand's manager, says delays in getting parts has held up the work. Of salient interest in the repairs to the theater is the new gypsum-slab roof, selected to overcome priorities on other roofing materials. Seating capacity is being cut somewhat, and the stage undergoing reduction in height. * * * Fire damage to theaters continues apace. One of the latest outlets to suffer is the Nevada Theater in Prescott, Ark. Conflagration apparently originated in the heating room. Damage is estimated at $1,000. Miss Addys Brown is owner. * * * Chicago dispatches aver that Bell & Howell has contributed $5,000 to the Red Cross War Fund, and that more than 100 of the company's employes have donated their blood to the Red Cross Plasma Bank. B & H, Motio graph, DeVry Corp. and other factories in the Windy City busy with war work are declared to be advertising for more help, as the labor turnover in Chi plants is very rapid these days. * * * President Eugene F. MacDonald, Jr., of Zenith Radio Corp., has started a campaign for science and commerce to use the word Radionics, instead of Electronics, to designate the American way of radio communication, et al. * * * The Electric Eye Equipment Co., Danville, III., is working on electric eye equipment that can be used by film theaters. S. C. Hurley, Jr., is hi charge of the special department. * * # C. Wesley Kent, inspector in the New York District of Altec Service, is the proud daddy of another son, Gary Winston Kent. * * * A new theater, the Cassidy, owned and managed by A. J. Cole, has opened in Webb, Miss. * * * Up in Syracuse, a post-war planning forum, under the aegis of Carrier Corp., got under way yesterday and will conclude today. M. C. Williamson, of Bausch & Lomb, is among the representatives of some 20 leading companies participating in the meeting. Sam Reichblum, owner of the Columbia Theater, East Liverpool, O., is installing a new U. S. Air Conditioning System. * * * Ensign Stanley Levine, formerly of the Stanley Equipment Co., is in Chicago on a visit. E. Wagner Cites Sign Status Metal Backlog OK; Praises Plastic Letters Motiograph's New Era Starts on PostWar Note Chicago — Motiograph has formally surrendered its corporate charter to the Secretary of State's Office at Springfield, and will henceforth operate as a general partnership em(Continued on Page 8) Chicago — Wagner Sign Service, Inc., of this city, has an ample supply of fabricated parts made of stainless steel for company's attraction frames to last for several years, and since these were fabricated several years ago, the organization is permitted to use them by the War (Continued on Page 8) Circuit Will Initiate Remodeling, Buy Equip., And Harness Television Toronto — That Famous Players Canadian Corp. has been pointing up a definite program whereby transition from a wartime basis of theater operation will be quickly and efficiently made as soon as the present struggle ends, is revealed in the wake of organization's annual meeting here. Firm's president, J. J. Fitzgibbons, asserts that a salient feature of post-war planning, already delineated and approved, will be launching of reconstruction and equipment projects to support new industrial activity. While details of this proposal are not announced, it (Continued on Page 8) St. Louis Laws Won't Burden Pic Stands St. Louis — As anticipated, two bills requiring additional safety provisions in places of public assembly have just been introduced at session of the local Board of Aldermen. Measures were presented by Alderman Richard Nichols (R.)" of the Ninth Ward, at request of Building Commissioner A. H. Baum and City Counselor Joseph F. Holland. One of the bills makes it unlawful for any person to smoke in the auditorium of a film theater, and simply (Continued on Page 8) Theaters Get Cloehs — ''Second Hand9 Type Rochester, N. H. — Colonial and Scenic Theaters, without clocks since remodeling several years ago, decided to re-install timepieces when many patrons, now coming by bus due to motoring restrictions, kept houses' attendants busy informing them the time toward end of the night shows. Unable to purchase new clocks, what with manufacturers engaged in Government precision work, Manager William Stanton located two advertising clocks, stripped them of their ad matter, and placed them in the theaters.