The Film Daily (1945)

Building Remodeling THE' Hiii^ Equipment Maintenance NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1945 * • • • WORLD TRADE PARLEY DEFERRED TO 1946 Fourth Quarter Carpet Outlook Is Encouraging Output May Commence Climbing in September; Maybe Not Till January Growing stockpiles of wool plus belief that Government requirements of jute will slacken as more manila becomes available are encouraging the carpet and rug industry. Spokesmen declare that they were looking forward to the fourth quarter with (Continued on Page 8) PLAIN TALK ABOUT EQUIPMENT Booth Standards Olcay in State Code While hard and tedious work is continuing for film industry representatives on the committee which is drafting the new York State Building Code's provisions affecting tne(Continued on Page 8) License to Greenhouse For Manila Equipment West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Dan Greenhouse, dialogue director at Republic and formerly in charge of distribution for RKO-Radio in the Philippines, has (Continued on Page 8) Engle Back in Chi. Chicago — H. B. Engle, sales manager of DeVry Corp., has returned to the home office from his business swing through the South. Research Under Way To Benefit Pic Biz Chicago — Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturers Ass'n declares that engineers are now working on the problem of designs and systems to be installed on the zoning principle, so that any amour.l of cool air can be delivered to any part of a Holiywcod sound stage at a given time, and the researcn may well bring similar benefits to theaters. On enclosed sound stages the heat of stage lights is intense and must be offset by cool air. IF our industry is to remain rugged, and capable of surmounting, let alone meeting, the rigors of post-war competition, it will need all the strength it can get from Science, which is to say Engineering. A new era is beginning for filmland, and this is no idle chatter. It is an era no less revclutionary than sound s advent. The "One World" of the late Wendell L. Willkie is here. There are only two courses open to us, — namely, to recognize it, gird for it, participate in it to economic fullness, or, to underestimate its implications and potentialities, and, like Rip Van Winkle, snooze until opportunity and vigor have gone. QCIENCE is what we need now more than ^ ever. We need it in the growing, inseparable fields of motion pictures and television. Specifically, we need the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, the individual talents of its membership and its genius as a collective body. In turn, what SMPE needs is the full and unqualified support of our industry's rank and file. It should be given militant, unified aid. It shculd and must be accorded financial assistance in such amount as to assure thorough functioning, freedom from want and freedom from fear, in the years which lie ahead. THERE are many reasons why this must be ' done. Firstly, the progress of films and television (and it is fatal to separate the two in any sound thinking) depends fundamentally upon Science. During most of the half-century since the birth of movies, our own trade-folk have, by and large, been far more conscious of the Art and Commerce aspects of the business than in its scientific sphere! The latter has been taken care of primarily by what we have come to term "related branches" of the industry, — manufacturers and other bodies who have been looked upon as seme sort of distant cousins. It's a cockeyed attitude, and a dangerous one. Secondly, every rational nation is now out to get what it considers to be its deserved share of world film markets, and whatever fruits there may come from tele. Fortunately, we are "odds on ' favorities in this race, but this very circumstance puts upon us the burden of maintaining and expanding the position. THIRDLY,— and we may as well face the ' music, — future scientific standards and posts governing them on the world economic and political scene will be largely controlled by those responsible for scientific progress. In a world of invention and development, this is inevitable. If we fail to fortify our film and tele position through allout support of science, regret may well be our lot. If this sounds a little vague, we recommend less reflection on past glories and a little, quite a little, more communion with what is happening in the world. A S examples, we might note Britain's ne** cessity of boosting her trade at least 50 per cent over pre-war if she is to retain solvency; Russia's earmarking of $1,000,000,000 in gold for her film business, with a like amount tagged for tele; Sweden's expressed intention to recapture her former film trade glories; the strong accent which France is placing on her future film setup; India's mushrooming native industry; and the eagerness of Latin-America to take her place firmly in the cinematic sun; etc., etc. Hollywood should endow SMPE, not merely grant it hand-to-mouth "subsidy." The quicker we arrange such endowment, the better. The time has come for action. The time has gene when we can afford the luxury of locking barn doors after horses have been stolen. I O.K. Theaters Has Two New Houses Going Up New RCA Tube Division's Organization Announced Houston, Tex. — Two new neighborhood houses will be constructed here by Oskar Korn's 0. K. Theaters. WPB priorities have been obtained and construction is under way. The Avalon will be built in the Magnolia addition and will be a deluxe house (Continued on Page 9) Organization of Radio Corp. of America Tube Division to embrace all electron tube activities of the company with L. W. Teegarden as general manager was announced this week. Plans call for transfer of the division's headquarters from Camden to Harrison, N. J. More Time Seen Needed To Make Possible An Agreement With Britain Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — International postwar status of motion picture equipment, along with other goods and commodities, will not be deteraiined with any degree of finality until sometime in 1946, as result of the (Continued on Page 9) New Mid-West Tlieat. et By Nkl( Biicos Gary, Ind. — A new theater, costing from $75,000 to $100,000, will be built in the central district of Gary by the Nick Bikos Theater Com(Continued on Page 9) WE Names Zint to Head Operations in Mexico. Karl E. Zint, until recently special engineering advisor to the 21st Bomber Command in the Pacific, has (Continued on Page 9) Peterson Announces Pacts D. A. Peterson, Altec's Philadelphia district manager, announces renewing service agreements with Hamid's Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City; Castor Theater, Philadelphia; and Clifford, Flynn & Co.'s chain of houses in Montrose, Mifflinburg and White Haven, Pa. Altec Loudspeaher Equip. Ready Soon Aitec Lansing expects to be able to ship its new line of theater loudspea;se' equipment on or about Oct 1, A. A. Ward, organization's vicepresident, announces. It far surpasses in presence and realistic production anything heretofore available, he said. The equipment will be available to manufacturers for incorporation in their theater sound systems, and also for step-by-step modernization through appointed dealers.