NAEB Engineering Newsletter (Oct 1956)

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6 a single test film of high accuracy several quantitative visual tests that have always been difficult to perform, this reel will be used in quality control by manufacturers of 16-mm printers, and for precise alignment of 16-mm black-and-white color television film chains. Development work on the film was done over a period of two and a half years by George W. Colburn of Geo. W. Colburn Labora¬ tories, Chicago. This test film, which comes in lengths of 100 ft. and is priced at $27.50, may be ordered from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, 55 West 42nd Street, New York 36, New York. ******* RCA's 23rd TV training seminar for engineers, featuring lec¬ tures on both monochrome and color TV has been scheduled for Sept¬ ember 17-21 in Camden, New Jersey. Arrangements for attendance may be made through the RCA sales representative who calls upon your station. ******* John R. Brugger has resigned as Chief Engineer of WILL-AM- FM-TV to accept a position as coordinator and technical director of the recently announced closed-circuit public school television system being established by the Washington County Board of Education at Hagerstown, Md. This project, to run for five years, is being sponsored by RETMA, its member and non-member equipment manufact¬ urers, the Fund for Advancement of Education and other educational groups and associations. John will be missed at WILL and in the Champaign-Urbana community where he has been an active and willing worker in com¬ munity organizations. We will miss his help at NAEB Headquarters and as a member of the NAEB Engineering Committee. We wish him the best in his new position. *******