The Exhibitor (1966)

Air Blown Lamp, Small Recorder Get Oscars H Arthur J. Hatch, president of The Strong Electric Corp., Toledo, received a technical achievement award for 1966 from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the development of the air blown carbon arc pro¬ jection lamp. Patent for the equipment was granted to Hatch, who assigned it to Strong Electric, a subsidiary of General Precision Equipment Corp. The air blown carbon arc projects up to 50 per cent more light than any lamp hereto¬ fore commercially available. The super-high brightness of the Strong air blown carbon arc lamp has resulted in its use by all the larger Cinerama theatres in the United States and abroad, by big drive-in theatres and those showing 70mm 61ms. It is marketed under two trade names, the Jetarc, sold by independent theatre supply dealers and the Ventarc, sold by National Theatre Supply. Some of the advanced features of the award-winning lamp follow: (1) Utilizes a source with a brightness of 1800 candles/sq. mm for the highest powered conventional arc sources. (2) Solar cell/transistor automatic positive crater positioning device holds the arc source precisely at the redector optical focal point. (3) Rotating rod negative electrode. (4) A single feed control adjustment dial which has the dual function of establishing the arc current through use of a biased relay controlling negative electrode feed and com¬ pensating the positive electrode feed range Academy board member MacDonald Carey, (Left) at presentation of Oscars to Arthur J. Hatch (Cen¬ ter) and Stefan Kudelski for technical achievements. limits under control of the positive crater positioning device so that it is compatible to the arc current being utilized. (5) A 21inch diameter “cold type” reflector used in conjunction with a six-inch diameter auxiliary redector constitute a most efHcient light collection system. Entire redector assembly is movable in relation to source for focusing spot on dim gate. (6) Uses joinable 10mm positive electrodes so that no stub re¬ mains to be thrown away. The use of the joinable positive enables a /s reduction in positive electrode costs. Recent improvements to this lamp include redesign of negative electrode feed to assure increased effective driving torque, improved arc striking control and adaptation to use 30" long ll-/2mm positive electrodes for Cinerama large screen presentations. Chief among the many products developed and manufactured by Strong are a complete range of projection lamps, power rectiders, glass redectors. Xenon lamps for projection of 35mm and 16mm dims, carbon arc printing and camera lamps for graphic arts, “pancake” type lights for trafdc channelization of high¬ ways and runway centerline lights for airports, trafdc guidance lights, carbon arc and Xenon slide projectors, searchlights, solar radiation simulators, and carbon arc and incandescent follow spotlights. The Academy also honored Stefan Kudel¬ ski for his design and development of the NAGRA Portable j4" Tape Recorder. Kudel¬ ski is a Swiss precision machinist and a tran¬ sistor electronics engineer of great understand¬ ing. He has used these skills to create the world’s highest quality, most reliable, light¬ weight portable recorder. These recorders are used by most of the major studios in Holly¬ wood, by all U.S. radio and television net¬ works and in almost every country in the world. This remarkable, Swiss-made instrument, containing its own battery power, weighs less than 14 pounds, including the new Kudelski neopilot system of synchronizing the tape sound with camera picture, a new Kudelski closedloop servo dutterless drive system, and fool¬ proof indicators of speed, synchronization, battery voltage and volume. Where business is good, you'ii find a theatre equipped by Baiiantyne, Whether you're planning a new theater, or updating an old one — indoor or outdoor — it’ll pay to talk to Ballantyne. Ballantyne sup¬ plies all this — Ballantyne transistorized sound, carpet, seating, draperies — everything, even financing — All-in-One. Ballantyne designs exclusively for quality in sound reproduction. Combine this with the work of your own architect and Ballantyne engineers, and you're assured of a theater of tomorrow. Ballantyne’s job doesn't stop on installation. Our success depends on constant service and council from engineers experienced in manufacture as well as expert installation supervision. You can find no better. 3 ! I3 ntyriG INSTRUMENTS AND ELECTRONICS, INC. A DIVISION OF ABC CONSOLIDATED CORPORATION 1712 JACKSON STREET OMAHA. NEBRASKA 68102 Ariz. Multi-Purpose House PHOENIX, Ariz. — The Cine Capri, Ari¬ zona Paramounts new theatre, located in Barrows Plaza, Phoenix, opened with a charity premiere of “The Agony and the Ecstasy” for which star Charlton Heston made a personal appearance. Continental seating is employed in the 800 seat theatre, designed by Henry George Green, A. I. A., N.C.A.R.B., consulting architect for American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. George M. Aurelius, vice-president and gen¬ eral manager for Arizona Paramount, worked with the John P. Filbert Company of Los Angeles, to provide the theatre with the latest in furnishings and equipment, including Con¬ tinental Lounge chairs by Griggs, multi-flow draperies by Samson & Son, as well as 70 35mm projectors and a transistorized sound system by Century. The Cine Capri is the drst multi-purpose theatre in the Southwest, specidcally designed to project wide screen, CinemaScope, VistaVision, Dimension 150 and Cinerama. Effects Book Readied NEW YORK — “Special Effects in Motion Pictures,” a new book by Frank P. Clark, pro¬ fessional Hollywood effects man, will soon be published by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. To write this book, Clark worked closely with the SMPTE advisory committee on spe¬ cial effects in motion pictures and had the assistance of editorial vice-president Herbert E. Farmer. The work emphasizes mechanical spe¬ cial effects — those created before the camera during diming. PE-14 PHYSICAL THEATRE • EXTRA PROFITS DEPARTMENT of MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR May 1 8, 1 966