Business screen magazine (1959)

Educational Film Association Reports Over 400 Motion Picture Titles Entered in American Festival E NiKii.s I'OR THi: 19.^9 Anieri YES, IT'S TRUE... ivhat they say about Hollywood . . . that, more and more, Hollywood is becoming a center for production of business films. Experienced sponsors have found that Hollywood's unequalcd technical facilities, and its large pool of creative and production talent, make possible the production of better films, on faster schedules, and often at lower cost. Among the nationally recognized producers of business films in Hollywood, the firm of GATE & McGLONE is respected for its uncompromising standards of quality and its long record of successfully serving an important list of both eastern and western clients. CATE^//.^M^GLONE 1521 Cross Roads of the World, Hollywood 28, California -^ can Film Festival, scheduled for a New York City opening on April 1st, now total over 400 16mm tilms and more than 100 ^.Smm tilmstrips, according to a report issued by the Educational Film Library Association, sponsors for the event. Producers and distributors in the several tilm ticlds will compete for Blue Ribbon Awards in the thirty-two categories covering the major areas of education and information, art and culture, religion and ethics, business and industry, and health and medicine. Jurors for each category are being selected for their specialized •experience and knowledge, but the screening sessions will be open also to anyone interested in audiovisual education and the use of ICimiii lllms and lllmstrips in any field. Outstanding hlms in each category will be selected by prescreening committees for showing at the Festival in New York on April 1-4. 1959. Jurors will view and appraise the films on the first three days of the Festival. Final results will be announced at the Award Banc|uet on Friday. April 3. The winning films will be screened on Saturday, April 4. The announced purpose of the American Film Festival is to give recognition to high quality in nontheatrical films and tilmstrips and to improve the level of production in the audio-visual field. In addition to the four days of intensive screening at the Festival, there will be discussion programs in the evenings, as well as informal social gatherings. Full information about the program of the American Film Festival may be obtained from the Educational Film Library Association at 2.50 West 57 Street. New York 19. H' Orient is Subject of New Travel Film by Swissair Line .'V A new entry in the field ol travel films is Asia Unlimited (30 min.. color), sponsored by Swissair, the national airline of Switzerland. Along with scenes of life in Pakistan. India. Thailand. Japan, Hong Kong and Manila, viewers get a short lesson in the sociology of oriental people. Distribution of the film is through Modern lalking Picture Service. 'Jf Western NAVA Conference April 9-12 in Victoria, B. C. Victoria. British Columbia, has been selected as the site for the Western Conference of the National Audio-Visual Association, according to Max H. Rarig. Rarig Motion Picture Co.. Seattle, chairman of the conference committee. The conference meets April 912. just prior to the national convention of the Department of A-V Instruction of NEA in Seattle. April 13-16. A program of speakers and consultants is being drawn from the ranks of both audio-visual industry and a-v consumer groups. The conference is being arranged to allow full opportunity for contacts and discussions between key groups, and between a-v dealers and their suppliers. Assisting Rarig in setting up the conference are members of the NAVA Western Conference Committee, including P. H. Jaffarian. Audio-Visual Center. Inc.. Seattle: Ty Sidener. McCurry-Sidener Co.. Sacramento; John Moore. Moore's Motion Picture Service. Portland; John Ellingson. Inland .'^udio-Visual Co.. Spokane; and Peter Allinger, Viewsound Supplies, Vancouver. H* * * * Midwest Photo Specialists To See Special Film Program A motion picture program re \ viewing new medical and scientific films will be a highlight of the first Midwestern Sectional Meeting of the Biological Photographic Association April 24-26 at the Univeisity of Iowa. Attending the meeting will be photographic specialists in medicine, dentistry, biology and othei sciences representing medical and dental schools, hospitals, research institutions and science centers from Canada and nine midwestern states. Besides the motion picture program, a salon of color and blackand-white photographs will feature displays of clinical and specimen p h o t og r a p h y . photomicrography and natural science. H' Heinz Film An Award-Winner ;^ Liitlc Skiier's Big Day, sponsored by the H. J. Heinz Co., was one of the award-winners in the 7th International Festival of Mountain and E.xploration films held recently in Trento. Italy. Q' 10 BUSINESS SCREEN M A G .\ Z I N E