The Film Daily (1948)

Building Remodeling Equipment Maintenance '■?* * • • NEW YORK. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 27. 1948 Page 3 BISCORD EXHIBITS BT TESmH-TCDPft SHOUI Huge Equip. Export Market Waits on Dollars Golden Sees $100,000,000 j Market in 3-4 Years if i Currency Were Available Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Foreign sales by American equipment makers would easily top $100 million in the next three or four years if the would-be buyers could get their fingers on that much hard currency, Department of Commerce pix chieftain Nathan D. Golden said yesterday. "There is no question at all about the market being there — the only difficulty is in getting paid," Golden said. Golden estimated that there is need today for about $25 million (Continued on Page 12) RBOUT THE TRADE 100 Attending RCA SI. Louis Sates Meet ! St. Louis — The theater equipment [section of the RCA Engineering J: products department will conduct k sales sessions for all sales repre1{ sentatives of RCA theater equipJstment at the Jefferson Hotel this -H week in conjunction with the annual i TESMA-TEDPA convention. More than 100 RCA theater supply (Continued on Page 12) "Seeing is Believing" Century Display Theme St. Louis — Century Projector Corp.'s display at the TESMA trade show here this week has as its theme, "Seeing Is Believing." Demonstration equipment is slow (Continued on Page 12) ST. LOUIS WHAT PROMISES to be a unique display of the 1949 model in-car speaker, and an announcement of major importance to the Drive-In field, are promised for TESMA-TEDPA conventioneers by DeVry Corp. Company delegation is Headed by President W.C. "Bill" DeVry; Bob Engel, general sales manager; Ira Fleming, chief of the field service engineering division, and Bill Dute, company's Midwest factory rep. Also on display at the DeVry exhibit will be the "12000 Series" 35 mm. theater projectors and amplifiers, and the company's new 16 mm. lightweight sound projectors, the "Super 16" and the "Bantam." • • KOLLMORGEN OPTICAL CO. will display its f/1.9 Super-Snaplite projection lens, the fastest lens avaHaHe. at Booth 74 at the TESMA-TEDPA (Continued on Page 4) DEVRY IVewJ Speaker-Heater Combo tor Drive-ins St. Louis — David Sandler, general manager of Theatercraft Manufacturing Co., of Cleveland, manufacturers of Molbiltone in-car speakers, will premiere his new in-car combination speaker and heater at the TESMA convention. This built-in heater system, guaranteed to maintain an average 70-degree car temperature, is designed to extend DriveIn season. Edwards or Kaimann MayHeadMo.MPTO St. Louis — Principal problem facing delegates to the MPTO of St. Louis, Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois convention is the selec(Continued on Page 4) 100 Leading Film Equipment Firms Display Latest Advances in Field; Boards Meeting Today; MPTO Meeting Swells Huge Turnout By ROBERT J. BARRETT FILM DAILY Staif Correspondent St. Louis — Display of motion picture equipment and supplies at the TESMA-TEDPA show will surpass anything that has taken place at other joint meetings of the equipment associa — ' tions, Ray C. Colvin, president of CimaVlAy FlAffrif TEDPA, and Oscar Neu, president of Showing New Units St. Louis — The Superior Electric Co., of Bristol, Conn., which has a three-booth exhibit at the TESMA Trade Show, to present, besides its regular line of theater dimmers, several new units, on exhibit to the industry for the first time. J. S. Couden, SE's sales manager, is in charge. One of these units is a convenient, compact, "packaged" Powerstat theater dimmer for small theaters. This unit, known as the DBR6-850, consists of six 850 watt auto-transformer type dimmers mounted in an attractively finished, portable case. Operating from 115 volts, 50 or 60 (Continued on Page 14) NEU COLVIN RCA's "Dunking Speaker" In TESMA-TEDPA Debut St. Louis— "The Dunking Speaker," a new and unusual demonstration unit dramatizing the high weather resistance of RCA In-Car Speakers for drive-in theaters, will be shown for the first time at the annual joint (Continued on Page 12) Ballantyne Co. Adds to Line Unveiling Six Innovations at TESMA '$ Show New Rectifier, Lamp Introduced by Forest Newark, N. J.— Forest Electric is adding to its line of rectifiers a new magnesium copper sulphide Unit for 60 to 90 ampere operation for drive (Continued on Page 4) St. Louis — A new, de luxe stxeamlined soundhead, a new 45-70 ampere high intensity lamp, a, conaplete new line of Lightmaster high intensity rectifiers, a new streamlined projector base, a new projector, and an all new twt)-way horn system will be introduced by the Ballantyne Co. at (Continued on Page 13) TESMA, jointly predicted at the week-end. Booths fill every foot of available (Continued on Page 4) Moliograpli to Sliow Sound Equipment St. Louis — Motiograph display at the TESMA-TEDPA show will be confined to the company's 500-watt Drive-In theater sound system and (Continued on Page 13) B & H Announces New One-Case Projector Chicago — Development of a singlecase 16 mm. sound projector is announced by Bell & Howell. Projector, weighing 43% pounds, has a six-inch speaker on a removable door in the projector case. Door may be swHnj| out for operation, or may be removM from the case and placed near th« screen. A ID-watt amplifier permitf^ use of a larger B & H speaker.