University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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w 1 mM M r § tm - William Blume is Assistant Department Head and Di- rector of Production. After attending the University of Miami in Ohio, he came to Troy to receive his Master ' s degree. During the war he worked in the Documentary Division of the Air Force. Dr. Lester F. Beck, Director, took over the reins of the Cinema Department in 1950 and has kept up a steady flow of pictures which are directed, produced, and acted in by the students themselves. A former psychologist and producer of numerous educational films, Dr. Beck has procured contracts from the government for his de- partmen t and secures major studio producers for lectures. crfijrcir.rur Action In The Senior Production Workshop on the film production Impressions, features actors Oiojo Kosoco and Janie McQuerry, while on the technical side are Erwin Wotermeyer, from Valparaiso, Chile on the clap stick who was also the assistant cameraman; Rubin Zacarias of Mexico City is the Director and Unit Manager; Bruce Vernon on the mike boom is part of the sound crew; the man with his eye to the box is Bill Riddle, who is the Cameraman on this production. The Senior Production Workshop along with cinema department produces educational films for use in the schools of the U. S. and for export to other countries. The workshop teaches students the many techniques of set design, sound crew work, direction, production, camera work and other related subjects.

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The House In the Background seems real enough, but actually it ' s a picture pasted on an extended wall. From the looks of things, the Cinema department is just about ready to shoot this scene. The department was founded in 1929 and was christened by Douglas Fairbanks. SC became the first school to hold cinema classes and today, while other schools are teaching only techniques, SC uses its films as a medium of expression. The studios are located near the corner of 35th and Hoover. Research Department Conference is carried on by C. Van Horn, Research Associate; Maynard Smith, Administrative Assistant; Donald Klegg, Research Associate, and Dr. Nicholas Rose, Director of the Research Division. Also a men ' .ber of the conference is Isabel Handley, a Research Associ- ate. Division does film research for the government. Cinema Department Projector is inspected by Glenn D. McMurray, Assistant Director of Visual Service, and Herb Farmer, who is Director of Audio-Visual Services. The Audio-Visual Services provide projection and recording facilities for the whole SC campus. This service includes the showing of films for instruction in classrooms, and the recording of such things as the concerts given in Bovard and Hancock audi- toriums. 180

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS Dr. Allan Hancock is founder of the department of telecommunications. It was under his guidance that the Hancock Foundation was estab- lished. KUSC-FM, his cont.ibution to SC in the radio field, went on the air in 1946 with classical music, news commen- taries and interviews. Now, Dr. Hancock brings an education- al TV station to SC. He is a member of the Board of Trustees. William Sener, Director of the department of telecommunications is, at present, concentrating on the school ' s new ultra-high fre- quency educational television station, the first of its kind in the nation. Mr. Sener is also in charge of KUSC-FM. He came to SC from NBC where he was on execu- tive, and is a graduate of the University of Iowa.