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FILM AND RADIO GUIDE
Volume XII, No. 7
cation in the public schools of Rochester, N. Y., has commented that the “plan is unique in providing a distributional procedure in complete harmony with the best utilization practice.”
Eastin’s new Guidebook contains 48 pages of carefully selected instructional items, each described in some detail. While it offers numerous films of a general educational nature, the new list shows that the Eastin library is rapidly being expanded to include a good assortment of films meeting specific teaching needs in fields as widely separated as music and woodworking.
Other Eastin lists currently available are an 88-page catalog of entertainment films, an “Economy” list of 116 complete programs, and a special list of 49 new recreational short subjects.
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MGM's Foreign Representatives Visit Ampro Factory
The three smiling gentlemen giving rapt attention to the partially dissected Premier-10 Amprosound Projector are, from left to right, Marco Ortiz of Panama, Pedro Mena of Chile, and Alfredo Gonzales of Mexico.
These gentlemen completed their training at the Ampro plant in Chicago and recently returned t o their respective countries to take active part in the vast MGM 16mm program recently announced by Loew’s International for operation in foreign countries. These are but a few of the men who have been trained at the Ampro plant and at other 16mm motion-picture projector plants in the United States.
Under the watchful eye of Service Director Henry Wilson, left, they have learned not only how to completely disassemble Ampro Projectors, but how to
now resumed after interruption by the war, has made it possible to absorb the returning ex-service men without releasing other employees. Projects already under way call for early reopening of the Colorado office, rapid enlargement of the firm’s list of school films, improved film and projector service to roadshowmen, and wholesale replacement of rental prints.
Among the new Eastin offerings is the remarkable Brit
ish production of scenes from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, described elsewhere in this issue of Film and Radio Guide.
An interesting new rental plan is announced in the Eastin Guidebook t o Instructional Films.
Under this plan, schools will be able to rent films for a full school week for about the same amount as formerly charged for one day’s use. Paul C. Reed, director of visual and radio edu
Back at their desks at Eastin Pictures Co., Davenport, Iowa, ore these seven World War II veterans. Left to right, back row — T 5 Kenneth J. Olsen, Army Medical Corps; Electrician's Mate (First Class) Tom F. Smith, USNR; S Sgt. Newell H. Dailey, Air Force Weather Service. Center — Lieut. Kent D. Eastin, USNR. Front row — Mojor Robert K. Hieronymus, Army Inspector General's Department; Captain W. Reid Wooldridge, Army Field Artillery; Captain Edward H. Hieronymus, Army Quartermaster Corps.