The Film Daily (1945)

Building Rebiodeling Equipment Maintenance • • • NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1945 EQUIP. MAKERS EXPECT FUTURE BOTTLENECK Trade Opportunities In PostWar India Loom Big b Serious Barrier Is anticipated for Items lonufactured in U. S. Equipment Field Notes Items Will Gain, Then Drop Off, Before Trade Is "Out of the Woods" ashington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY \ Washington — American film equiplent manufacturers can look to idia for a market for about 1,200 ew projectors and sound systems in le five years after the war, accordig to a survey of the pix equipment ituation there released by the lotion picture unit of the Departlent of Commerce. Only substantial (Continued on Page 8) ieilings Up for 16 mm. Projectors Lifting by OPA of ceilings for ome 16 mm. and 8 mm. projectors lears up a situation which has been lenalizing certain manufacturers and reating friction within the trade, ■quipment channels pointed out yeserday as they expressed gratifica(Continued on Page 8l Device Would Eliminate Projection Lamp Blacking Washington— Patent No. 2,379,058, for a device to improve the lumen maintenance of incandescent projection lamps has been awarded to Waldemar E. Anderson, Montclair, N. J., and assigned to Western Electric Corp., E. Pittsburgh. Device is a method of treating a metal blackening collector with solutions of strontium chloride and sodium phosphate so that the lamps will not become black. Sees iVeuj Tele Sets Quickly Outmoded Stockholders of Zenith Radio Corp. were told by Eugene F. McDonald, Jr., firm's president, at yearly meeting this week that tele sets produced in early post-war years will be obsolete in a short time, and also declared that there isn't enough room in the 50 megacycle band for tele, pointing out that tele is more subject to interference. IjNITED CENTURY THEATERS CO., ^ headed by Nat Taylor, has reduced seating capacity of the Belsize Theater, Toronto, which it recently took over from Famous Players Canadian Corp. The equipment trade sees the step as indicative of the course which several thousand theaters will have to take if comfort is to be accented in post-war remodeling. House had 968 seats, and now 749. Berk & Krumgold, theatrical real estate brokers in the local Paramount Bldg., have sold the four-story Eagle Theater property, Third Ave., Alanhattan, between 102nd and 103rd Sts. for the Manhattan Savings Bank. Purchaser is Williarn O'Donnell, who plans immediate rehabilitation of the entire theater, including tele and air conditioning equipment. As soon as conditions permit, Floyd Theaters, Jacksonville, Fla., will build a 700seater in Wauchula, Fla. The new Urban Theater, replacing the one that burned a year ago, has opened in suburban Dallas, under man\ agement of Albert Cameron. j For 10th consecutive year, RCA sound service has been contracted by National Theaters Amusement Co.. Inc., it is announced by W. L. Jones, vice-president of RCA Service Co., Inc. More than 300 theaters are involved. hee Bell has been granted priorities j by WPB to rebuild his Cozy Theater, Clarendon, Tex., destroyed by fire several months ago. Construction has already started. R. D. Evans, formerly district service supervisor of the Atlantic District, with headquarters in Philadelphia, has been appcinted sales manager of the Product Service Division of General Electric's Appliance and Merchandise Dept., and he will be located in Bridgeport. first new theater to open since the war in Naugatuck, Conn., is the 911seat Salem. Debut audience included film exchange representatives from New Haven, and State and city officials. Two New Outlets et for Nortliwest Seattle — Fred W. Mercy, owner and operator of theaters in Eastern Washington, who was in Seattle to attend a reception given for Cecil B. DeMille, announced plans for construction of two more theaters to be built as soon as materials are available. At Selah, Wash., Mercy will (Continued on Page 8) Zenith Radio Corp. is behind current I Chicago— A bottleneck which may movie campaign to popularize hearing aids. ' extend over several months m acute The Bergman film, "Spellbound," boasts I ^^^ge, and even longer from the hearing aids, while the Claudette Colbert ! standpoint of any normal volume feature, "Tomorrow the World," shows her i ^ow, is being anticipated by equipwearing such an aid. i "^ent manufacturers here during the ! evolution of re-conversion. As a con I sequence, considerable "squawking" William Larkin will rebuild the is expected to be heard some time Roosevelt, destroyed some time ago in after the war's end from consumer New Bremen, O. (Continued on Page 8) The Ticket Register Co., Chicago, of which D. H. Finke is president, reports it has bought 150 coin changers of all types and will rebuild the equipment, and will then be sold to theaters as long as the supply lasts. The coin changers, Finke says, will be covered by a guarantee. Alpine Southern Theaters, Cincinnati, announces full WPB authorization for construction of a 400-seater at Co wen, W. Va. Work starts immediately so that the house can open in the Autumn. Fox Theaters has purchased the Stadium Theater Building, Caldwell, Ida., and will build a new theater on the site. House, formerly owned by J, T. Bales, will be torn down. New stand will be christened the Ritz. Raytheon Mfg. Co., Chicago, has been granted construction permit by FCC for a high frequency broadcasting station with a blanket coverage of more than 10,000 miles. j All new booth equipment has been installed in Charles Barker's Frost Theater, Frost, Tex., by National Theatre Supply Co. Included in remodeling plans of FoxEvergreen circteit in Spokane, Wash., is enlargement of new ground floor offices. Following the recent announcement that Jack O'Ccnnell, of Toledo, plans to build an amusement project in Maumee, 0., to include 3 1,400-seat motion picture theater, Rufus Young, owner of the Strand Theater, Maumee, states that he is preparing plans to build a 1,700-seat house. Gardner Joins Staff of Chicago Theater Supply Chicago — Robert S. Gardner has I joined the Chicago Theater Supply [ Co., here. He was formerly with Claude Ruben's Publix Great States, and for past three years assistant chief engineer for George A. Fuller, builder of defense plants. Lantp License Pact Dropped by Consent Pittsburgh — Westinghouse announces cancellation of its lamp license agreements with General Electric, effective next Wednesday. Termination, it was stressed, is by mutual agreement. Under terms of dissolution, each co.npany granted the ether a non exclusive and unrestricted license entitling each to use lamp patents owned and controlled by the other up to and including Aug. 1, 1945. ■e^i