KALVAR HEAD ANNOUNCES EXPANDED SALES PROGRAM

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KALVAR CORPORATION
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
KAL/GRAPHIC
. .. Sales manager named
WASHINGTON
Kalvar opens office
VOL. 1
Moran Greets Bill Suchors
Suchors Named
V-P for Marketing
Appointment of William J. Suchors,
formerly vice-president of Remington
Rand, New York, as vice-president of
Kalvar Corporation in charge of mar-
keting has been announced by Alfred
J: --Ptei.d.ent-? of Kal-var.---, -
Suchors has come to New Orleans
from his home at Mt. Kisco, New York,
to take over marketing activities of
Kalvar's wide range of products.
These include microfilm, motion pic-
ture film, masking film used in the
graphic arts, x-ray film copies, iden-
tification photo files, land title rec-
ords, catalogues and similar services,
and film used in data processing and
information retrieval systems by busi-
ness, government and the military.
Moran said, "Mr. Suchors is an ex-
ecutive of broad experience and of na-
tional stature in the business equip-
ment field. He joins an experienced
team of film, and management spe-
cialists who have come to New Or-
leans from top posts in national busi-
ness, organizations to help guide our
divisions and provide the special
knowledge needed by this young but
growing corporation in its drive for
a major position in the world film
market."
NOVEMBER, 1963
NO. 3
KALVAR HEAD ANNOUNCES
EXPANDED SALES PROGRAM
"First research, then production,
and now marketing?these successive
phases of our development today place
Kalvar in a position to achieve the
objectives we ? have long struggled
for."
This statement by Alfred J. Moran,
President of Kalvar Corporation, fol-
lowed the announcement of a world-
wide strengthening of Kalvar's mar-
keting program, including a series of
key appointments.
"Our production plant has now been
completely staffed and checked; our
quality controls are the most modern,
and we are now going to put them to
work as we forge ahead to achieve
a major position in the world film
market."
* * *
A list of top' appointments, an-
nounced by Glen G. Magnuson, Ex-
ecutive Vice President, was headed by
- J. Suchoi-?, fbi-nier1S7 Vice-
president of Remington Rand, as vice-
president of .Kalvar Corporation for
marketing.
Suchors earlier was Director of En-
gineering and Product Planning of the
Univac Division of Sperry Rand Cor-
poration. He, also served as General
Sales Manager of UARCO, Inc., busi-
ness forms manufacturer of Chicago,
and spent 10 years with IBM in vari-
ous executive sales and product plan-
ning assignments.
Suchors succeeds William Carney,
whose retirement as vice-president for
sales became effective in October.
Magnuson said Carney will continue
to serve in a consultant capacity for
Kalvar.
Magnuson also announced these ap-
pointments and developments:
HARRY B. DAVIS, formerly na-
tional sales manager for professional
and industrial products of Ansco, divi-
sion of General Aniline and Film
Corp., has been named Kalvar's West-
ern regional sales manager, with head-
quarters at Kalvar's Western Division
in Campbell, California.
WASHINGTON, D. C.?An area of-
fice has been opened in Arlington, Vir-
ginia, under the direction of J. Howard
Chamblin, who has been Kalvar's
Washington representative since 1956.
He is being assisted by a Technical
Engineer, Peter Claverie. The office
provides a customer display area and
service functions.
KAL/ GRAPHIC, INC., a Kalvar
subsidiary serving the graphic arts
field, has opened offices at the New
Orleans plant with customer display
and a service laboratory. Peter Walms-
ley, President, announced the appoint-
ment of Richard C. Gearhart as Sales
Manager. GeaFhart was formerly vice-
president for national sales, Cousino
Electronics Corp., Toledo, Ohio.
METRO-KALVAR, INC. ? Noel R.
Bacon, former Commanding Officer of
the Naval Photographic Center in
Washington, D. C., was elected Vice
President of Metro-Kalvar and has
opened offices in New York City in-
order better to serve the television and
motion picture industry.
MICRODEALERS, INC., have
achieved a major expansion, from 14
members to 40, and are conducting a
campaign to put at least one Roll-to-
Roll Kalvar printer in every member's
film laboratory.
"Throughout the Kalvar Organiza-
tion," said Magnuson, "we are exert-
ing every effort to obtain maximum
sales through dealers and direct con-
tact. We will, of course, also make
our implemented staff strength avail-
able to all our Partners in Progress
in helping them achieve maximum re-
sults from their Kalvar-based pro-
grams."
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Kalvar's Flexibility for Data Storage
and Information Retrieval
The above thematic picture describes
a complete system that is attracting
much interest from major insurance
companies, land title groups, hospitals,
and many other businesses. The sys-
tem is unique in that it can only be
accomplished with Kalvar film. This
system uses modern concepts of micro
image information storage and retriev-
al in a manner completely compatible
with long established and understand-
able filing systems. It uses the old
idea of a manila folder in an alpha-
betical, or numerical, or subject file
drawer, but in an entirely new format.
* * *
Briefly, here is the system?
Any piece of printed information
which needs to be filed and referred
to, is photographed and reduced to
16mm microfilm. (Additional copies of
this film can be made for archival
security or other distribution). The in-
formation has been photographed onto
the roll of film at random?as corres-
pondence, documents, or records.
The roll is now placed in a Kalvar
Unit Printer, each frame can be
viewed, and then transposed by sub-
ject onto a small sheet of Kalvar,
4" x 6", or 5" x 8". The sheet of
Kalvar has now taken the place of
the conventional manila folder (as
many as 60 documents can be placed
on a 4" x 6" sheet of film).
This card can then be placed either
in a conventional manual file drawer
(with tremendous saving of space) or
it can be handled in an automatic re-
trieving system. As additional doc-
uments or records concerning the same
subject are received, the Kalfile card
is taken from the file and returned to
the Printer and additional documents
printed on the same card?hours, days,
weeks, or even years later.
This can only be done with Kalvar
and is the reason that the system is
attracting such interest from such
groups as major insurance companies
who wish to maintain one file on each
policy, and to be able to add additional
information concerning that policy at
any time, which might extend over
many years. It is also applicable with
land title companies who wish to main-
tain one file on an individual piece of
property and yet always keep it up to
date with added information concern-
ing mortgages and bills of sale; also
for hospital and clinical records, where
it is desirable to maintain one single
file on a particular patient.
There are two unique characteristics
of Kalvar that prevent this system
from being accomplished with other
photographic films:
1. One or more images can be se-
lectively exposed and developed onto
a Kalfile card without destroying the
sensitivity of the card. This is because
of the dry processing and the fact that
it is not necessary to submerge the
film into chemicals or liquids in order
to develop or fix it.
2. Kalvar possesses an extremely
long shelf life. We have experience
of over 5 years. However, every in-
dication is that the film properly
handled, will retain its sensitivity with-
out limit. (This is in contrast to other
photographic films which clearly state
"this film must be used before a certain
date.") The active Kalfile card in the
file may be used in many ways.
All of the equipment depicted in the
above thematic is either available or
is now under an accelerated program
of prototype development. No tech-
nical break-throughs are necessary.
Kalvar Corporation anticipates that all
of the equipment necessary for this
system will be in completely demon-
strable prototype form by mid-1964.
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Kalvar Exhibits
Here and Abroad
The scope of the effort made by
Kalvar Corporation and its partners to
exhibit the film and methods for using
it is indicated by the following sched-
ule of activities in 1963:
Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers show, New York Coliseum,
March 25-28:
Litton Industries introduced direct
printing to Kalvar film from a cathode
ray tube.
Photokina, Cologne, March 1963:
I. Weinbetger, Zurich, Switzerland,
Kalvar's European distributor, exhib-
ited various Kalvar equipment and
films. Paul Gibert, Technical Sales
Representative for Kalvar in New Or-
leans, attended this exhibit.
National Microfilm Association, San
Francisco, April 30-May 3:
Kalvar, in conjunction with Micro-
dealers, exhibited a line of Kalvar
equipment and applications.
IBM exhibited their Micro 'Copiet:4
Federal Manufacturing and Engi-
neering exhibited their Model K-40
Printer Processor.
Caps, Ltd. exhibited theif Enlarger
and Printer Processor.
Society of Motion Picture and Tele-
vision Engineers, Huntsville, Alabama,
June 18, 1963:
Glen Magnuson addressed meeting.
IBM-Kalvar demonstration, New Or-
leans, July 25:
Almost 200 New Orleans business
leaders, including Kalvar stockholders,
attended this showing of equipment
using Kalvar aperture card.
WESCON Show, San Francisco, Au-
gust 20-23, Cow Palace, San Francisco:
Litton Industries demonstrated di-
rect printing to Kalvar film from a
cathode ray tube.
Canadian Electronics Conference, To-
ronto, September 30-October 2, 1963:
Litton Industries demonstrated di-
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Watland, Inc., Chicago, October 2, 3, 4,
Chicago:
Special showing of Caps equipment;
Watland has been appointed a Caps
dealer.
Microdealers Annual Meeting, Denver,
Colorado, October 10:
Glen Magnuson, Harry Davis and
J. Howard Chamblin attended.
American Land Title Association Show,
San Francisco, Fairmont Hotel, Octo-
ber 13-15:
Magnuson, Davis and Chamblin at-
tended. A Kalvar data storage system
was displayed in schematic chart.
Congress on Reprography, Cologne,
October 14-19:
Caps, Ltd. exhibited equipment.
M. G. Anderson, Director of Quality
Control for Kalvar in New Orleans,
presented a technical paper.
Society of Motion Picture and Tele-
vision Engineers, Boston, Somerset
Hotel, Oct. 13:
Noel Bacon presented paper on
Metro-Kalvar motion picture and tele-
vision- film.,:vr
Aeronautic and Space Society Exhibi-
tion, Montreal, October 21-23:
Litton Industries demonstrated di-
rect printing to Kalvar film from
cathode ray tube.
North American Radiology Conven-
tion, Chicago, November 17-22:
Copy Research Corporation exhib-
ited the Kalcon Film Duplicator and
the Kalvaray Unit.
Visual Communications Congress,
Cleveland, Ohio, December 8-10, Cleve-
land Auditorium:
Kalvar and Microdealers scheduled
to show various Kalvar products.
Kalvar is a New Orleans based film
manufacturing firm with a plant here
and an Engineering Division at Camp-
bell, California. It produces a unique
heat developable film which by-passes
chemical processes and darkroom de-
velopment.
Chicago Police Use
Kalvar Microfilm
CHICAGO?The Chicago police de-
partment is using Kalvar Film in a
test project involving high-speed ef-
forts to make photo identification of
criminals while impressions still re-
main fresh in the victims' minds.
Rolls of 16mm Kalvar microfilm
containing 3000 "mug shots" of known
Detective checks criminal's record
criminals grouped by their crime spe-
cialties and physical characteristics are
rushed to the scene of the crime and
shown to victims on a portable viewer.
The project is under the supervision
of Lt. Arthur E. Schoen, commanding
officer of the identification section.
The volume of arrests and identifica-
tion work is extensive. Chicago aver-
ages 65,000 arrests a year, and the
master rolls of negative film must be
updated every three months, which
means remaking the entire roll. "We
dupe seven positives from this nega-
tive," said Lt. Schoen, "and one dupe
print of each roll is sent to our six
police areas. In typical crimes, like
loan company stick-ups, muggings or
shootings, a detective selects the in-
dicated film rolls from his first infor-
mation and rushes to the loan office
or to the hospital and turns through
the rolls. By moving in fast with
this portable equipment we increase
the chances of making a fast, accurate
identification, and a quick arrest."
This use of film is a well established
method in Chicago. Experience has
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shown, Lt. Schoen said, that it subjects
the film to great stress, with resulting
wear and film breaks.
"We know that Kalvar film is strong-
er and want to make a thorough test
of its full range of characteristics."
The increasing use of film rolls of
identification photos, it is believed, will
lead to rapid interchange of similar
information not only within the same
city but also within many cities
throughout the United States.
Kal/Graphic Names Gearhart
President Peter Walmsley has an-
nounced major staff additions at Kal/
Graphic, Inc., headed by Richard G.
Gearhart as sales-manager. Other new
staffers are Volker Seifert, physicist
son of the late Dr. Werner Seifert, and
Leroy Bourque, laboratory technician.
(In photo on Page 1 are Walmsley, left,
Seifert, and Gearhart). Projects under-
way include further development work
on masking film and a shortcut process
for offset printing plates.
WASHINGTON,
D. C., OFFICE (see
photo, page 1) has
been opened. It is
headed by J. Howard
"Chick" Chamblin, who
has been the company's
Washington representa-
tive since 1956.
Chick Chamblin is a retired Naval
Officer who was active in the planning
and filming of many Task Force 58
operations which became a part of
U.S. photographic history.
In announcing the new office, at a
recent meeting of Microdealers in Den-
ver, Executive Vice-President Glen G.
Magnuson said "Chick is now estab-
lished in a full-fledged office at 4620
Lee Highway, Arlington, Virginia, and
is assisted by a technical engineer for
service work, Peter Claverie, and with
secretarial help. He is available on
call for the eastern territory for any-
one who needs him."
Peter Claverie
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New Equipment Boosts
Film Quality Control
Kalvar Corporation's unsurpassed
standards of quality control have been
reinforced by the introduction of an
automatic film examining machine
which detects minute flaws with a
speed and accuracy beyond the range
of human observation.
The machine is the development of
Raymond Lavender, an engineer of
Afton, New York, who spent a year
perfecting it.
The device scans the surface of a
moving roll of film with a beam of
light which constitutes part of an elec-
trical circuit through the photocell
principle. Whenever the beam is inter-
rupted by a flaw in the film or by a
surface particle, a circuit is broken and
a brake automatically stops the moving
film. The flaw is centered in an open-
ing which is watched by the operator.
Another automatic machine, recently
phased into the quality control pro-
gram, is the Quantascan Automatic
Densitometer. It measures samples
taken from a roll of Kalvar film and
automatically plots the curves which
enable the operator to determine the
speed and density of this roll of film.
Kalvar's entire manufacturing proc-
ess is carried out in clean room stand-
On the left, operated by Miss Pat Schulz, is Kalvar's new automatic film examin-
ing machine which detects flaws of extremely small size. A light beam trips a
brake when any defect blocks the light. At right, operated by Rodney Bourgeois,
is a machine, which measures film density electronically. Test strips are fed into
the scanner, at left, and the resulting curve is plotted automatically.
ards based on an extremely efficient
air-filtering system. Harold C. Harsh,
vice-president, operations, says "A suc-
cessful photographic film plant must
be maintained cleaner than a hospital."
Air first passes through a filter as-
sembly which removes particles down
to a very small size, and then passes
through a final filter which removes
particles less than 1 micron in diam-
eter. The particles in cigarette smoke
are about 5 microns; the width of a
human hair is about 40 microns.
STATUS REPORT ON
COMPANY
Information Retrieval
Corporation
Caps, Ltd.
Government Supply
Microdealers
Federal Manufacturing
& Engineering
Thompson Ramo-
Wooldridge
Aeronutronic (Div.
of Ford Motor Co.)
Copy Research
Corporation
Litton Industries
International Business
Machines (IBM)
International Telephone
& Telegraph Corporation
Kalvar Western
Engineering Division
NAME OF PROJECT
CRIS
Micro-Film Enlarger
Micro-Film Printer Processor
U.S. Navy
Social Security
IRS
Sales
Roll to Roll Printer
Processor
DODDAC
ARTOC
Kalvaray
Cathode Ray Tube
Recording
Walnut System
Micro-Copier for
Aperture Card
465-L (Strategic Air
Command)
Universal Printer Processor
Unit Printer
Kalfile Printer
Kalvar Developer
KALVAR PROGRAMS
STATUS
Now being marketed by Remington Rand
Dealers established in Europe, Canada, Australia,
and the U.S.
Requested sealed bids for over 3,000,000 Kalvar
aperture cards.
Has made first production run on new D.I. film.
Regular usage continues.
Program delayed by delivery of computer equipment.
Expected to start about February 1st.
Have increased dealers from 14 to 40.
Final group of original 50 units delivered this month.
Final acceptance tests
Final Acceptance tests
Exhibiting at North American Radiology Convention,
Chicago, November 17-22.
Demonstrated at exhibits in San Francisco, Toronto,
Montreal. First unit sold to major company in space
field.
Initial system now in use.
Full-scale marketing program under'w.ay.,
First units delivered to customer and first film
ordered for November?December delivery.
Final prototype being tested.
Developmental prototype under preliminary testing.
25 Units completed.
First production units delivered.
Irt4ws
KALVAR CORPORATION
Published Quarterly
by
KALVAR CORPORATION
909 S. Broad Street
New Orleans 25, La.
Metro-Kalvar Film
Shown in Boston
Noel R. Bacon (left), newly named
vice-president of Metro-Kalvar, Inc.,
showed a 5-minute Kalvar "release
print" at an October meeting of the
Society of Motion Picture and Tele-
vision Engineers in Boston.
Bacon projected a 16mm sound film.
"This print," he said, "was made last
week on a 'breadboard' developmental
printer-processor at the MGM Labora-
tories in Culver City, California." The
film was printed and processed at the
rate of 30 feet per minute, he said.
"Metro-Kalvar's advantages are ap-
plicable in the duplication, the repro-
duction and the release printing serv-
ice," Bacon said. "The ease with which
this new film is handled is revolu-
tionary."
With Bacon was R. B. .Lindemyer,
his assistant at the Metro-Kalvar, Inc.,
office which he recently opened in New
York City. _
? Decisions to pursue, or not to
pursue, specific programs of research
or development?whether within the
Company or with other firms or in-
dividuals?are essentially day-to-day
management and Board responsibilities,
to be discharged in the best interests
of the Company and all its Sharehold-
ers.
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CORPORATION
MR. ARTHUR LUNDHALL
2430 E STREET, N. W.
WASHINGTON 25, D. Ce
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