International projectionist (Jan 1963-June 1965)

America's headquarters lor all theatre equipment supplies •Al.TTS National THEATRE SUPPLY COMPANY OUT OF PRINT MITCHELL MANUAL AVAILABLE! The renowned "Manual for Practical Projection" by Robert A. Mitchell is now out of print, according to an announcement by the bookseller, International Projectionist. Returns from our retail outlets have been consolidated and we now have approximately 40 volumes of the Mitchell Manual available on a first-come-first served basis. These books are in brand new condition, complete with dust jackets; have never been used. This rare publication can be yours for $10 cash or money order. Sorry, no C.O.D. or foreign orders can be accepted at this price. Sheehan Booksellers Box 410, Route 5 Wayzata, Minnesota 55391 World-Wide Business For Walters Service DALLAS — From local projector repair work to a world-wide business has become the story of Lou Vi alters Sales & Service Co. of Dallas. Texas. Service and good quality did it. backed up bv advertising in such publications as IP. As Walters says: "In 1948 when I started in the projector repair business here in Dallas I was doing the repair work only for the local branch of National Theatre Supply Co. I found that this work was spasmodic, and had lots of time on mv hands, so I started advertising that my time and shop were available. My operation became national. "This was the situation until I started the manufacture of the "Little Miser"" carbon saver, and then the orders came not only from our states but from all over the free woxld. Along with the carbon saver business, orders for hard-to-get parts were sent along and even today many supplv dealers check with our shop for parts that have been discontinued. 1 am pleased to say we have helped many of them find parts that are no longer available from the factories. This business continues even today, although we no longer manufacture the "Little Miser" saver, having sold the rights to Theatre Products of Lancaster. Tex., but we still retail it to the theatres. "Our business has been typed as The Repair Shop in the U.S. and we are very happy for it. At present we are supplving repair and rebuilding service to many supply dealers who find, because of the uneven flow of repair work, it is no longer economical to operate their own shop. "Since the high-speed motor freight lines bring shipments to our door in two or three days, these dealers can continue to give good repair service, using our shop. A number of export firms are making use of our complete rebuilding ser INTERNATIONAL PROJECTIONIST Enter my subscription for Name Address City Post Office Box 6174 Minneapolis 24, Minnesota □ 1 year (12) issues — $3.00 □ 2 years (24) issues — $5.00 FOREIGN: Add $1.00 per year Zone State 14 vice, and our work is being sent all over the world. "After regrinding, at a nominal cost, thousands of wide-tooth sprockets to narrow tooth to allow the running of narrow-hole Fox prints, we are still getting sprockets for regrinding." LP Audio-Visual Expenditures Up Expenditures in the non-theatrical motion-picture and audio-visual field increased 3.6 per cent in 1963 over the preceding year, reaching an estimated S638 million. This continuation in the steady growth of the field since World ^ ar II is noted in a report prepared for the August issue of the SMPTE Journal. The 1963 figure includes estimated administrative costs not included in previous reports, which have been published by SMPTE since 1959 The revised total for 1962 is $616 million. Prepared for SMPTE by Thomas W. Hope of Eastman Kodak Co.. this latest interim report notes that for the second consecutive year, A-\ expenditures by federal, state and local government showed the biggest percentage gain. The expenditures totaled approximately §84 million up 5 per cent from the revised 1962 figure. Other gains were noted among A-V users in business and industry I up 4.5 percent, to $280 million i. and in education I up 3.7 percent. to $228 million). Audio-visual expenditures by religious groups and by civic, recreational and social welfare dropped 5 per cent, to an estimated S19 million each. Relatively unchanged at $8 million were expenditures in the area of medicine and health. Several trends were observed in the SMPTE report. The trading-in of used 16mm projectors for new ma chines was found to have dropped off by over 50 percent. The number of high-budget business films fell off considerably, but the number of special-purpose films shot at lower costs increased. Unit sales of overhead projectors rose, while the dollar volume fell off. Interestingly, the number of new nontheatrical motion pictures increased 5 per cent to an estimated 9,680 last year, but the cost of pro duction was up less than 1 percent, to $135 million. Commercial television film production, although not included in the figures for the report, also was reported to be up. International Projectionist November, 196i