International photographer (Jan-Dec 1941)

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TRflDflll O. H. Young is New Manager of GE Photolamp Sales 0. H. Young, who has been in charge of trade promotion for G-E Lamp Department at Nela Park, Cleveland, has just been advanced to head up a newly formed Photolamp Sales Department. As manager of this new Nela Park division, Mr. Young will be responsible for the promotion of G-E Mazda Photolamp sales throughout the country and for the establishment of new sales policies designed to simplify present rules governing wholesale and retail photolamp relations with G.E. Assisting Mr. \ oung in his new position will be a staff of trained specialists who will devote their time exclusively to the sale of photolamps. The new organization will supplement the work of G-E Lamp Department's seventeen sales divi O. II. Young sions which blanket the United States in serving distributors, retailers, professional and amateur photographers, and newspapers which use G.E. Mazda photolamps. "The new set-up is designed to put us a step ahead of the rapid growth of the photographic market in recent months, especially in the photoflash and photoflood fields,*' officials at Nela Park said. News from Bell & Howell At a time of soaring prices, it is encouraging to note that increased demand can still bring about price reduction in new fields that are just developing to the mass market stage. This is the case with rental rates on feature films. Bell & Howell's Filmosound Library just announced reductions in the rental price of over 200 recreational feature films, some amounting to as much as 50 per cent. Still further reductions are offered to "Annual Service" patrons who use not less than six features, or forty reels of short subjects in a year. New catalogs describing the library's 3,000 films are available to owners of 16mm. projectors who register their equipment and indicate their approximate rental needs. Two newcomers to the list of alpine skiing films are announced by Bell & Howell's Filmosound Library — single reelers with musical background instead of narration, and gorgeous photography of snowscape and winter sport. The new titles are: "Ski Symphony" and "Milady Takes to Skiis." Others in the same series, previously released by other distributors but now taken over exclusively by Bell & Howell, are: "Skiing with Hannes Schneider," "High School of Skiing," "Snowscapes," "Winter Magic," "Rock and Ice," and "Winter Holiday." Other new subjects in the Filmosound Library include: "In Mozart's Footsteps," "Flying Paddles," "Baroque Architecture," "Tyrol," "Masters of Sacred Music" and "Three Dances From Vienna." Older releases in the same series, all now distributed by Bell & Howell, include: "Village Symphony," "Corpus Christi," "Vienna — Home of Waltzes," "A Day in Vienna." The long series of single-reelers in color offered by Hell & Howell Filmosound Library under the general heading "Our Colorful World" is being augmented by several new arrivals. Two by Dr. A. C. Twomey, of the Carnegie Museum, deal with (lie work of the naturalists afield. The first, "In the Wake of the 'Beagle' ", traces the historic journey of Darwin from Tierra Del Ku ego to the Galapagos; the second, "Desert in Bloom," shows the flora and 22