Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1949 — Page 38

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In TV Field

$10-Million Tube Factory Going Up At Marion, Ind.

anapolis, In fact, RCA television sets are practically all Hoosiermade. i The RCA Victor Division has four plants in Indiana with a combined monthly payroll of $1.5 million. This does not include the television tube plant ($10 million) which is being constructed in Marion, Ind., which will start producing 16-inch tubes about Sept. 1. RCA stresses its 16-inch direct viewing tube with 128 square inches of picture. RCA is still in the 10-inch screen market (52 sq. inches) but is moving rapidly toward volume large-screen production. Managers of RCA's vast Indi-| ana enterprises are H. M, Emlein,| / Indianapolis; T. 8. Weeks, Bloom-| | ington; E. J. Conway, Monticello, and W. T. Warrender, Marion, Set Up Service Office 3 RCA has set up a Service Co. office at 2033 E. 46th Bt. The Service Co. issues a service policy good for one year of guaranteed

Brings Television to Indiana

Harry Bitner Jr., successful owner-manger of WFBM, has wen the honer of being the first to bring television to Indiana at a cost | usually estimated around $300,000. It is-a money-losing communi service at the start. Like other television owners, he hopes he will show a profit sometime late this year or next. He has spared no expense to give central Indiana the best.

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yi ladults can absorb recorded hisy ltory, great books and plays much

(living of historie - events,

TV Hailed as New

War Training Films May Be Adapted

The advent of television to the Indianapolis aréa opens up a whole new world of documentary education and entertainment. Many of the best war scenes were filmed by the War Department. In addition, the training films used in camps both here and abroad may become available for televising. It is probable that much of our future formal education will lcome through television films, {Science has proved that the eye lis much more retentive than the lear, and with the eye and ear combined, both children and

{faster than from books where the {images are formed from words. Outstanding events in history {can be filmed and brought into {homes via television and children {can be taught much faster, edu{cational authorities contend, if {they can he made to enjoy their

¢ (history with a sugar-coating of

a dramatic meditm. Important Role Seen Local backgrounds provide an excellent opportunity for the rethe

i {founding of a city, the signing of

its charter, the first governor taking oath of office, battles with the Indians and the leveling of

"HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Hollywood Expects to Reap

With Abundant Talent and Techniques Expecis to Be Cenfer of Production

HOLLYWOOD, May 21—Hollywood expects to be the center of television film production. In a poll of film producers and officials conducted by The Hollywood Reporter, daily newspaper of the motion picture industry, it was found that: ONE: Television stations will necessarily use films for more than half of each day's programming. TWO: Progress now being made in the development of tel-

evision as & mass medium will id : make it an increasingly influ- Porton pe a 20 tol

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, sald, “It remains to be seen to

not affected our former policies. But that is not to say it will not do so in the future.” Walt Disney said, “I respect

itelevision as a worthy competi-

tor and stimulator of motion pictures and believe that it may become the greatest of all media reaching the public. Even in its novelty stage, with its enormous potential audience not yet defined nor its quality goal established, it clearly indicates its vast enter-

ential factor in the lives of all avision.™ THREE: With its abundant : yros -Skouras, president of talent and proven techniques,iTwentieth Century-Fox Pictures, Hollywood obviously will be theigaid, “Large screen television is center of television film produc- moving ahead rapidly and by! tion. 11952 a majority of important, Eric Johnson, president of the theaters in the country will be Motion Picture Association, said, quipped for television produc“Motion pictures, In my judg- tion. ment, will be the sturdy back-| bone of television. I think the! overwhelming bulk of television will then receive its greatest improgramming will be built on|petus since the advent of sound.

motion pictures for two princi-1y win pe possible to form a large

pal reasons: 2 circuit of theaters numbering as “ONE: Their guarantee of | many as 3000 or more and situechnical and programming Per- (ated throughout the country, all]

: . using the same television show.”| TWO: The assurance of repeat! Nicholas Schenck, president of

Disney’s Views

tainment possibilities.”

SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1001 |

Tin Shortage

manufacture of te sets. Television Digest says that the average radio receiver uses 4 to

6 ounces of tin, but the average

television set uses 2 pounds. If 2,000,000 television sets are produced this year, 2000 tons of tin will be needed. Yet the government, which buys all the tin from the Fan East, Bolivia, Nigeria and Congo, will have only 60,000 to 70,000 tons to parcel out to American industries of every kind.

The motion picture industry

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year at considerably less, a The Indianapolis plant 7 eight assembly lines capable of turning out several hundred ‘re ceivers per day. This plant is working at full blast at a time: when radio business usually ex periences a pre-summer lull,

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Television Could Help City In Many Ways, Says Mayor

Great Municipal Progress Possible When

Cameras Show What Needs to Be Done By AL FEENEY, Mayor of Indianapolis Television can do yeh Jor Indianapolis, it Be Jelovision cameras accomplish the job of showing our ¢ ns a lot o ngs diana has put all RCA plants at) yey qon't see and should know about this city. top production, officials said. It can have a powerful civic influence. It can be ie Joting ’- key to municipal progress as soon as there are enough sets to show Acting Ability the people what % being done and what should be done. I'd like to take the television Fgjsvision could well restore the Requirement of cameras for a tour of our police American home to its proper : : and fire headquarters, our CIty |yiatus ag the place for the spendTV P erf ormers Hall, our General Hospital and yng o¢ Jeisure hours. : into Some of ine less favored resl- | pm giad television is about to LO8 LES a dential districts. /i|arrive in this great Capital Cit BL bab rig a I'd like to show the citizensiqss Indiana, to beam Yo or ge i! to have to have every. how the City handles its many|y potentially great city to the four —Phe le faces and Ag-\® how our parks aye main-|soemers of this rich and fertile Says, “television set ownership ures, quick memories and, to the tained, thousands of chil-lgiaee We want Indians citizens will hive ‘FYeiched 50 per cent of degrees, ‘the ability to act! dren are provided supervised rec-iio. kngw and like Indianapolis. |the saturation point in.the larger That's the forecast of Norman |Teation, and what a never-ending! when someone asked ma the markets of the country having | . Randolph eld, lecturer for a|Job it is to repair our streets. |other day if I would favor mak-| television service. - course in television acting at the| Television can give us . needed | ing political speeches over teleUniversity of California Extension. “The actor who can act with|have to see. But point a tele- be mainly for entertainment and/image was thrown on. a screen at his face, of course, but also with vision camera at some of our/education—not punishment, and Hartsdale, N. Y., in February, . his hands, his fest, his body and [many problems and enough civicibesides, no one has yet devised 2/1028. It was of Mrs, Mia Howe, his voice,” Mr. Field sald yester- interest can be general fo do{way to shake hands or kiss babies televised by John L. Baird, one of

survive something about them. over a coaxial cable. the pioneers. of television, a Rah one Who will Ve" And think what it could mean :

radios) where television conversion is taking place about 1600 are empl In Monticello, the console factory, employment ranges to a few hundred, varying with demand. RCA operates another cabinet. plant at Pulaski, Va. The Marion plant at present employs about 60 but after Sept. 1 siployment may pear the 1000mar

Of WFBM-TV

A SPECIAL television film is being made by CBS for the opening of WFBM-TV. : Jack Bteling, master of ceremonies of the new, hour-long CBS network show, “The 54th St. Revue,” will salute WFBM-TV on its opening night. The film will be made In advance and air-expressed to Indianapolis.

Expect 65 Million TV Fans by 1950

A television audience of 85 million persons within the next two years is predicted by Joseph H. Ream, executive vice president of the Columbia ‘Broadcasting System. “Within five years,” Mr. Ream

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