Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

16 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE Volume XII, No. 4 George A. Hirlimon Young Hiiiiman was dabbling in it before he was fifteen. By the time he was twenty, he was already a partner in a sizable laboratory, later to become known as the Hirligraph Company. After engaging in all phases of laboratory technique and in specialties, the business reached such size that it constituted one of the important units in the New York area. In 1927 Hirliman sold the business to Herbert J. Yates, then engaged in putting together Consolidated Film Industries, Inc. By 1933 Hirliman had organized and was president of Exhibitors Screen Service, a film-trailer organization serving theatres throughout the country. Shortly thereafter he became We.st Coast Production Executive of Consolidated Film Industries. From 1933 to 1935 he supervised all t h e independent productions financed by this Company in Hollywood. Among these were a series of Bill Boyd action pictures and Magnacolor shorts for Select Productions, a Consolidated subsidiary. He resigned from Consolidated in 1935 to form his own production organization. He produced features in Magnacolor in Spanish and Eng lish for MGM release. In 1943, he formed and became president of Film Classics, Inc., but resigned in 1944, to organize and head International Theatrical & Television Corporation. One of Hirliman’s first steps a f t e r forming International Theatrical & Television Corporation was to buy outright the Walter 0. Gutlohn Company, which became the core of International. The Gutlohn Company, one of the oldest and best established companies in the 16mm field, had long specialized in serving the schools. Building on this foundation, one of the principal activities of International Theatrical & Television will be in the educational field. The present International film library includes Universal and RKO pictures. Certified Films, United Screen Attractions, Spectrum Pictures, Condor Pictures, and the product of the Mascot, Chesterfield and Invincible Companies. In order to print the films listed in this huge catalog, Hirliman purchased Circle Film Laboratories in New York. The project most cherished by Hirliman is, however, the program of activities in his Instructional Films Division. He believes firmly that there is a tremendous future in this field and is prepared to back this belief with adequate budgets. As soon as International’s corporate expansion is stabilized, this policy will be translated into action on a broad and constantly mounting scale. This is good news to audio-visual educators everywhere. No. 43: Victor Roudin Victor Roudin, head of the Instructional Films Division of International Theatrical & Television Corporation, was born in New York City, .June 22, 1899. Upon graduation from Erasmus Victor Roudin Hall High School in Brooklyn, he attended Columbia University until the entry of the U. S. into World War I, whereupon he enlisted in the Navy, serving for eight months in 1918-19. Returning to Columbia after the war, Roudin received his A.B. degree in 1919 and his LL.B. degree in 1920. He became a member of the New York bar and practiced law for 22 years until the summer of 1943, when he joined forces with George Hirliman in the organization of Film Classics a n d the subsequent formation of International. Roudin is interested in fostering experimentation in new u.ses of the film in education. He has encouraged amateur educational producers in all parts of the country to experiment in the making of educational films of many types. From such activities, he believes, will come the directors, producers, and writers of professionally-made textfilms of the future. As Director of the Instructional Films Division of International, Roudin has mapped out and is proceeding with an ambitious program. For elementai’y grades, he is planning films that will emphasize motivation and incentive to learn, with a view to substitut