Mr. James A. Cashin

Again in 1997 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chose to recognize Roger Hibbard, USL's Chief Engineer and James A. Cashin, USL's founder for work in their field that improves the overall motion picture experience.
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Ultra*Stereo Labs was founded in 1981 by Mr. James A. Cashin. Mr. Cashin is President of the Company and owns a majority of the shares. From 1975 to the founding of the Company, Mr. Cashin worked in the technical and production end of the motion picture industry both as a producer and in the technical equipment development area.

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PRINCIPALS

James A. (Jack) Cashin Founder and President jack@uslinc.com

Founded USL, Inc. in 1982 with the intent of offering low cost options for studio surround encoding and cinema sound equipment. Received two Technical Achievement Awards, the first in 1984 from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the engineering and development of a 4-channel, stereophonic, decoding system for optical motion picture sound track reproduction. In 1991 and 1995, USL, Inc. was voted Manufacturer of the Year by the International Theatre Equipment Association. In 1998, won his second Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the Projection Screen Analyzer, a computer based video device that measures screen brightness.
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In 1997 E. Roger Hibbard, James A. Cashin and Larry Jacobson were given a Technical Achievement Award for the development of USL's Projection Screen Analyzer system.
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In the Theater industry this puts Mr. Cashin as the only recipient to have won Technical Achievement Awards in both the Audio and Visual area.

1984 Academy Award for Technical Achievement

In 1984 James A. Cashin was given a Technical Achievement Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for his pioneering work in the field of surround sound process used by USL's processors. The innovativeness of the process and the quality of the sound reproduction was deemed superior over other processes, to the extent that it was considered a contribution to the industry. This award meant a great deal to Mr. Cashin as this was a year in which many innovations and improvements occurred and being singled out was a distinct honor.
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In November 2001, James A. Cashin was awarded the Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal Award. The purpose of this award is to honor individuals by recognizing outstanding contributions in the design and development of new and improved methods for sound-on-film motion pictures. Mr. Cashin was presented this award for his innovation in developing 8-track recording equipment used in Robert Altman's film California Split . The system allowed the director to use streams of sound impressionistically, and the film became a watershed in the industry for its pronounced effect of coincident speech and sound.