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              Unwrapping Auditape. The corner office shimmers under klieg lights, the stripboard claps, the camera whirs, and on signal from the film director the two partners begin their unrehearsed act. John Queen an and Ken Stringer are talking about Auditape. There is nodded agreement, a pause for thought, a light comment,
"Cut," barks the director, and an-other sequence in the new film on Auditape is done.
Film making, a novel experience for Haskins & Sells, has been part of the process of making the H&S Auditape System more broadly available once the initial needs of our offices and clients had been served. The 20-minute color film is designed to intro-duce a discussion of Auditape at pro-fessional meetings and with clients and students.
Entitled "Masterminding the Com-puter," the film had its first public showings as an introduction to Audi-tape demonstrations at the annual meetings of the American Institute of CPAs in Portland, Oregon, and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Ac-
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countants in Toronto, both on the same date, September 28.
The two institutes had asked for demonstrations after the Firm's expe-rience had shown how useful Auditape can be to other accountants, and after earlier announcement that we would make it available to the profession. We have also been asked to adapt our H&S training material for use by American Institute members and to conduct courses for them through the organ-ization's professional development program.
Cooperation of this kind with the profession is a tradition with H&S. An earlier example was the Firm's dona-tion to the AICPA of survey findings on the financial reporting methods used by major American corporations, a
project now conducted annually and published by the Institute as "Account-ing Trends and Techniques."
The modest licensing arrangements for Auditape provide for a $25 charge for each application, with minimum total annual charge of $100 and maxi-mum of $1,200.
The film was produced by MPO Productions, Inc. It contains live se-quences and animation to show how Auditape works and what it can do.
Jimmie Dunn and Joe Wesselkamper, both of whom have had much to do with developing Auditape, appear to-gether in the film. Others making their debuts on the screen are five people who were in the Executive Office last summer adapting Auditape to other computer makes or designing new rou-tines: Tom Commes and Don Johnson of Minneapolis, Alice Martel of EO, Herb Eldridge of Toronto and Bill Meister of Atlanta. The film also shows Ed Darcey, Bill Hopkins and Rose-marie Odierno of the Executive Office, and a group of New York Office part-ners: Messrs. Schumann, Englert, Heir-hammer, Petrillo and Pinkerton.
Alice Martel, Auditape programmer, prepares to place reel on tape unit of our Honeywell 200 as camera records a sequence (or H&S film.