The Film Daily (1945)

14 • EQUIPMENT NEWS ml DAILY Friday, July 13, ISl A Section of THE FILM DAILY comprehensively covering the equipment field, published every second week by Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc.. 1501 Broadway, New York City. John W. Alicoate, Publisher ; Donald M. Mersereau, General Manager; Chester B. Bahn, Editor; George H. Morris, Equipment Editor; West Coast Bureau, 6425 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Cal., Ralph Wilk, Bureau Chief. Orders Backlog to Be Filled by Eastman (Confinued from Page 13) company officials emphasized yesterday commenting: on reports that Eastman planned a line of professional 16 mm. cameras and projectors. Plans for any immediate manufacture of such equipment were denied. Company has placed in production a limited quantity of projectors under WPB limitation order L-267, to meet a small part of the increasingly heavy demand from industrial plants and educational institutions which are steadily expanding visual training programs. Demands for this projector have been consistently high from the armed services since the beginning of the war, a spokesman stated, and large quantities of the sound Kodascope FS-IO-N, produced before the war, have been sold to both the Army and Navy for training purposes. Two New Houses Planned By Minnesota Amusement (Continued from Page 13) site at Larpenter and Snelling Avenues, St. Paul, and has announced a theater to be built as soon as materials are available. Minot project will be at 306 Main St. S., on a 75 by 144 foot plot. Circuit already operates the State, Orpheum and Strand Theaters in Minot. Former Grand Theater, St. Cloud, has been reopened under the name of Hays, in honor of the late Theodore Hays, dean of Minnesota exhibs. House had been closed for five months and is reopened as a first-run. Ebei'son Supervising 3, Planning 5 for D. of C. (ConMnued from Page 13) soon as possible. Three theaters, already under construction, are being supervised by the Eberson organization, and plans for the additional five are in preparation. No Extra Booth Equipment Foreseen (Continued from Page 13) other units — which has been the quartei'ly quota foi' civilian use for more than a year — will probably represent the entire production for the third quarter. A new regulation issued over the week-end will aid manufacturers who are able to get most materials for additional production but lack only one or two items. This I'egulation is designed to aid in the procurement of "bottleneck items," lack of which is holding up production of goods for the civilian market. It calls upon WPB regional offices to aid manufacturers to obtain those items on application, but in practice it will be invoked only where the major portion of the materials and parts for the unit is already available. Another qualification is that the manufacturer must prove hardship if he is unable to get these items. It can be applied to raw materials, so that if a manufacturer is able to get his electronic components and other parts but needs simply steel or aluminum for casing, for instance, he can receive special assistance. Aside from the bottleneck items, however, no priority assistance is provided to enable manufacturers to turn out more than the quarterly schedule. A noticeable rise in production of booth equipment is to be looked for late in the year or in the Spring, when the military cut-backs and other factors are expected to mean greater supplies of raw materials — particularly metals — and electronic components. For prompt service for parts for all makes of seats, write: Chicago Used Chair Mart, 844 So. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. THEATRE PROJECTORS AND SOUND SYSTEMS . . . built to specifications that far exceed generally accepted commercial standards. . . . Learn how you get so much for so little when you buy DeVRY Write DeVRY CORP., 1111 Armitage Avenue, Chicago 14, Illinois. 5-TIME WINNER! DeVRY has earned five consecutive Army Navy "E's" for excellence in pro luction of Motion Pictun MOTION PICTURE SOUND EQUIPMENT Indians Seek Relp in Making Raw Stock Washington Bur., THE FILM DAILY Washingtcn — Efforts to interest a U. S. or European raw stock manufacturer in establishing a manufacturing plant in India is a post-war possibility, it is revealed by a survey by the motion picture unit of the Department of Commerce. Indian producers seek less expensive raw stock and it is their hope that even if the market for negative film is insufficient to warrant local production, consumption of positive should be sufficient to make production in India practical. British Unveil Hew Recording Metliods (Continued from Page 13) controllable directional characteristics maintained over the entire frequency range, was also brought from the experimental to the practical stage for the recordings, B. C. Sewell, supervisor of the project, revealed. According to Sewell, the sound recorder, also an entirely new design, exhibited good "flutter" characteristics. Manufacturers Seek I Fabric for Seats (Continued from Page 13) market for seating is huge tod! and it is hoped that at least seve seating makers will be back in p; duction for the civilian market September. ! The war contracts these firms haj had are being cancelled, or runni] out, in many cases, it was report yesterday at WPB, with faciliti thus being freed for production f the nation's theaters. Lumber nearly as short in supply as textil — with seasoned lumber almost ii| possible to obtain. Steel is mo plentiful, however, and there is eve: indication that chair frames ai; springs will be in production th Fall in large numbers. Question of upholstery is one which there is much confusion i WPB. In some quarters it is b lieved that a fair quantity of fabr can be provided, while other officia are grimly definite that there will \ none. In the meantime, the seatin firms are themselves reported e: perimenting to find some sort of sul stitute material to use — possib' even a new treatment to make lightt fabrics not usually used for upho stery serve the purpose. see NATIONAL fiiULliiHlill'liJlMI for essential JANITORIAL SUPPLIES 'I 'ij s^xoi Man