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being built on a two-and-a-half acre site. Hunt Electronics
currently has its principal offices and its main manufacturing facilities in Dallas. The firm also has assembly plants
in Mexico and Brownsville, Texas.
Hunt Electronics was founded in Dallas in 1961. First
product made by the company was a solid state dimmer
for residential use. The firm now also designs and builds
heavy duty lighting controls for commerical installation,
such as stores and restaurants, and custom builds solid
state lighting control systems for theatres,
schools,
churches, and multiple use arenas and auditoriums.
Kliegl Bros. is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Gordon W. Pearlman to their Marketing Department. Mr. Pearlman will serve as the Kliegl Western Regional Sales Manager with offices in Portland, Oregon.
Mr. Pearlman holds a M.F.A. from Tulane University,
was previously with Electronics Diversified as Marketing
Vice President, and for the nine years prior, with the Un iversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as Lighting
Designer and Technical Director.
Mr. Pearlman may be contacted at Kliegl Bros., 3004
N.W. Luray Terrace, Portland, Oregon 97210, (503)
223-0956.
BETTMANN ARCHIVE ACQUIRES NAT DALLINGER
COLLECTION: EXCLUSIVE PICTURES OF HOLLYWOOD'S 20-YEAR GOLDEN ERA
Hollywood's most glamorous era - the period between
1944 and 1965 - is immortalized in the enormous picture
collection of Nat Dallinger, which has just been acquired
by The Bettmann Archive. The Dallinger Collection contains close to 50,000 exclusive black-and-white stills and
20,000 color transparencies that are now included in the
famed Bettmann Archive.
Dallinger was a pioneer in the "off guard" candid
photography of Hollywood stars and his pictures were
published around the world. Virtually all of the stars of
the period are represented in off-beat appearances never
published since their initial newspaper or magazine exposure.
Although the bulk of the collection is in the nineteen forties to early sixties era, Dallinger had been photographing since the twenties and some of his earlier work
is also included. His pictorial features appeared in Sunday
rotogravure sections and daily newspapers internationally.
The Dallinger Collection joins the already existing
Springer/Bettmann Film-Theatre Collection to furnish
one of the most complete pictorial records of Hollywood
and Broadway in existence. The Bettmann Archive, under
the direction of Melvin Gray, is a world renowned picture
library with about 4,000,000 illustrations on all subjects
covering all periods.
Christopher Jaffe, President of Jaffe Acoustics, Inc.,
has announced the formation of Renaissance Resources,
a new division of the company.
Renaissance Resources will provide the same advanced
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that Jaffe Acoustics currently offers major art~ organizations. Jaffe Acoustics is one of the country's leading
acoustic consultancies in the performing arts, and has
worked on projects from the Metropolitan Opera, the
New York Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony,
among others.
At present, information relevant to advances in the
physical and psychological acoustic aspects of musical
performance is not accessible to smaller orchestras. It is
anticipated that Renaissance Resources, established to
create a link between the work of Christopher Jaffe and
his associates, and the thousands of smaller orchestras
and music organizations that exist today, will provide
scientifically current acoustic criteria in an efficient
manner at moderate cost.
Marcia Paris Jaffe, Consultant Coord inator, and Gordon W. Clark, Senior Consultant, will operate the division from their offices at 83 East Avenue, Norwalk,
Connecticut 06851.
Holzmueller Corporation, "the oldest theatrical supply
house in the West" (since 1902), was recently sold by its
parent corporation, Monson Electric Co. The sale did not
include a considerable stock of older and/or used equipment, which is being offered for liquidation at enormously reduced prices.
This clearance can provide a counter-inflationary opportunity to equip a summer theatre - light an outdoor
pageant - add to a community playhouse - whatever an
enterprising theatre technician can envision may be in this
warehouse. For example:
Portable control boards of road or "piano board"
design . . . both resistance and auto-transformer
types, ranging from 3000W to 6000W per circuit,
of Ward-Leonard manual interlock design, caster
based, from 6 to 14 dimmers per circuit.
Superior Electric auto-trans board of 18-5000W
motor-control dimmers, 3 units per castered crate.
All complete with grand and individual submastering console and 300' remote multi-cable. Unit was
used extensively by the San Francisco Opera.
Borderlights, 300W and 150W capacity, compartment and seal-beam types. Kliegl "super" and Dynabeam foliowspots. Fresnel spots, 8" and 6", Alzaksome plano-convex. All less third wire and connector. All types of floodlights and "olivettes" complete with frames. Castered proscenium towers.
Colorwheels
lobsterscopes ... effects ... projection lenses
and you-name-it accessories.
Eight 10K McAllister 20" fresnels complete with
stands, barndoors, lensguards, lamps. Suitable
for ice shows. Like new.
Music stands, many with lights, heavy duty, with
shipping crates. A small stock of new Kliegl architectural and stagelighting units. A 40' light bridge
(catwalk). Motor-driven auto-transformers. Linnebach projectors. Parts for all types of control and
stage equipment manufactured during the past
30 years.
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