Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1959)

,lnv, March 12, 1959 Motion Picture Daily SMPTE Planning Program for 85th 77777 JJt,|J ^Jjt Convention on Int'l. Communication , , , j)| Jj, fj ]$ ROUNDUP ry Kasperovvicz, engineering |?r in the physico-chemical secDu Mont Tube Operations, ■n named director of color tube h and development at Allen B. nt Laboratories. He will be in of development of a singleilor tube for commercial TV rs, a program being conducted contract to Chromatic Televiiboratories, a division of ParaPictures. Kl D Cudone, of the Edgemoor , Wilmington, Del., and Jack ell, of the Academy Theatre, ?go, Cal., have joined Theatre of America. □ Friedman, veteran industry t and journalist, has been press representative for Altists Pictures of Canada, Ltd. aow in New York for confer^lon current and forthcoming □ Novak yesterday held a press ace at the Columbia Pictures )ffice for high school paper iof the New York area. Some ergraduate fourth-estaters at □ ie Silverberg, who recently refrain Universal in Pittsburgh, n appointed office manager for na's newly-formed U. S. Films, that city. Dana will open his ces there Monday. □ i Pries, formerly chief barker Philadelphia Variety Club and y an officer of Variety Clubs ional, has been elected first 'sident of the Main Line Re=mple, Beth Elohim, in Wyn vertson has been named gennager for all units of Adam satres in the Willamette ValOregon, supervising theatres Albany and Corvallis. I ° smith, retired Warner BrothJ mch manager in Albany, N. Y., n named to buy and book the "heatre, Deposit, N. Y., opof which was recently taken Floyd Thompson from Kallet |. □ V. Iselin, of Tri-City Drive-in js, is serving as co-chairman oung executives committee of rish Welfare Fund Campaign, N. Y. □ «rd Goldstein, former 20th i-Fox salesman in Albany, has assumed the buying and of the Avon Theatre, CanasY., for Ralph Balducci, who reopened the house. "Films and Television for International Communication," the theme of the 85th semi-annual convention of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, will be dramatized in a variety of ways when the 43-year-old organization meets in convention ses ■ sions at the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, May 4-8, according to program chairman Garland C. Misener. On the opening day of the convention, sessions will be devoted to high-speed photography and instrumentation, theatres and projection. Mitchell Wolfson, president of Wometco Theatres and Television Station WTVJ of Miami, will address a get-together luncheon on that day." A special attraction of the first day, May 4, will be an address, Monday evening, by Major General John Bruce Medaris, Commanding General, U. S. Army Missile Command, Huntsville, Ala. General Medaris previously commanded the Army Ballistic Missile Agency from its inception in November, 1955. He was designated first commander of the AMC in March, 1958. TV Sessions Slated Other sessions during the convention week will be on laboratory practices, cinematography, audio-visual communications, committee meetings, sound and multilingual films, studio lighting and practices, television film techniques, television facilities and television recording. A novel new feature of the convention will be the papers-demonstration session on the second day, scheduled to be held in connection with the international equipment exhibit. The demonstrations will be given in sequence in the sessions auditorium, adjacent to the international equip ment exhibit, which will be open to visitors all afternoon. This year's exhibit promises to be the largest of its kind ever featured at an SMPTE convention. Already more than 50 companies from the United States, Europe and Asia, have indicated their interest in showing the latest in photographic instrumentation, cameras, projectors, and screens, closed-circuit TV systems, lab and editing-room equipment, motion picture and TV studio lighting, and, magnetic/optical sound devices. Technical Papers Varied Technical papers at this convention will treat a wide variety of subjects, among which are the following: the silicone rectifier dimmer; television lighting, past, present and future; implications of the continental classroom for open-circuit television teaching; a program-by-program billing system for pay-TV; 'are ASA speed numbers accurate?'; photo instrumentation in the AVBO CF-105 arrow; production planning for contractual film progress reports; new approaches to location recording techniques; comparison of learning resulting from motion picture projection and closedcircuit TV presentation and establishing and maintaining printer light balance in additive printing. On the last day of the convention, conditions permitting, concurrent meetings on television recording will be held in Miami =and Havana, with two-way transmission during the sessions. Three UA Branches (Continued from page 1) are: Byron Adams, Jacksonville; George Heiber, Toronto; and Abe Feinstein, Winnipeg. Canadian district manager Charles S. Chaplin leads in the district standings. The 22-week campaign for collections, billings and play-dates will award more than $60,000 in cash prizes to the winners among the company's 33 competing branches in the United States and Canada. Bilgrey Program Head Felix J. Bilgrey, vice-president of the Little Carnegie and World theatres here, has been placed in charge of programming for the two houses, it was announced yesterday by Jean Goldwurm, president of the operating companies. Named to WOMPI Post ATLANTA, March 11. -Mrs. Nell Middleton, of MGM. has been named chairman of the nominating committee for the local chapter, Women of the Motion Picture Industry. Other members are Frankli English and Martha Chandler. 'Compulsion' Seen by Ohio Governor, Others Special to THE DAILY COLUMBUS, O., March ll.-Governor Michael Di Salle and the entire Ohio State Legislature attended a screening of "Compulsion," hosted by producer Bichard Zanuck, today. The screening was held at the request of the Governor as part of the intensive program underway in this state, based upon the bill, due to come before the legislature, on the elimination of capital punishment. Had Requested the Showing Since a portion of the film deals with the question of capital punishment, Governor Di Salle and members of the legislature asked to see the film. Following the screening at the Grand Theatre, here, Zanuck met with members of the legislature and discussed various aspects of the picture as well as his research into the question of capital punishment. Prior to the screening, the young producer appeared with the Governor on a television program direct from the State House in which the subject again was discussed. Rosen Tops RKO Winners Marty Bosen, manager of the BKO Albee Theatre, Brooklyn, was the winner of the grand prize in the circuit's eight-week business building contest, it has been announced by Harry Mandel, vice-president of RKO Theatres. Besides the main prize of $750, cash awards were made each week. Winners, in addition to Bosen were: M. A. Anderson, BKO Hillstreet, Los Angeles; Jerome Greenberger, RKO Fordham; Brad Manning, BKO Proctor's, Newark; Mark Ailing, RKO Golden Gate, San Francisco; Harry Dearmin, RKO Orpheum, Marshalltown; Sam Fersten, RKO Kenmore, Brooklyn, and Nicola Constabile, RKO Alhambra, New York. ■ Juke Box Story for Banyan Banyan Productions has announced as its first feature production "Deadly Music," from an original screenplay by Charles J. Hundt. Production will take place in and around NewYork in the early spring. It is a story written against a background of the juke-box industry. ■ AGE Meeting in New Haven A territorial meeting of the American Congress of Exhibitors will be held today at the Stanley Warner zone office in New Haven. Territorial temporary co-chairmen are Harry Feinstein, S-W Northeastern zone manager, and George H. Wilkinson, Jr., operator of the Wilkinson Theatre, Wallingford. ■ Maryland Allied To Meet Allied Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Maryland will hold its annual meeting and election of officers at the Park Plaza Hotel, Baltimore, on March 19. ■ Ponti Using 'Carmen' Theme Carlo Ponti and Marcello Gerosi are going forward with plans to produce a dramatic production based on the "Carmen" theme and starring Sophia Loren, despite the report that production has started in Spain on a picture titled "Cannen." ■ 'Big Country' Victors Named United Artists and the Avis Rent-aCar System have announced the five winners of the national contest conducted in conjunction with UA's "The Big Country." Winners— one from each of the five sections of the nationarc: C. W. McCullough, Buffalo; Harry Lohse, Indianapolis; Mrs. F. L. De Bra, Fort Myer, Fla.; Mrs. Jean Andre, Milwaukee, and Mrs. Vernard H. Webb, Sunnyvale, Cal. The awards provide the use of an Avis car for 2,000 miles.