Business screen magazine (1946)

Busipess Screen FEBRUARY. 1971 NAVA A-V Selling Institute Operates under New Name The 23-ycar-old National Institute for AudicvVisual Selling sponsored by the National Audio-Visual Association will be operating under a new banner this year. In announcing a broader NAVA training program, the planning committee unveiled the new name for the sales training program. Boasting courses from basic salesmanship to systems engineering, the NAVA Institute fur Professional Development (as it's now called) will be held as usual in Bloomington, Indiana. July 11-15. Details on the institute are available from NAVA. 3150 Spring St.. Fairfax. Va. 22030. AFI Announces Five Filmmaker Awards The American Film Institute has awarded a total of $15,800 to five independent filmmakers, according to an announcement today by George Stevens, Jr., AFI director. This is the seventh time in three years that the awards have been made under the AFI grants program. The films of those selected I range in content from contemporary social problems to experimental and animated subjects. The recipients of the Indepen . dent awards are: Patricia Amlin, 33. 1 of San Francisco, for Autopsy of A Queen, a documentary film fusing the historical with the present to capture a slice of essential Americana ($2500). Richard Bay, 22, of Nashville, Tennessee, for Implosion, a dra I matic film about a young alcoholic who finally commits suicide ($800). FEBRUARY, 1971 newsreel REPORTS ON CURRENT EVENTS AND TRENDS David Brain, 29, of Glendale, California, for Mr. Businessman, an animated film which makes a slapstick comedy statement about the iniuimanitv of business ethics ($4,000). Andrew Burke. 22, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, for Brown Rice, a dramatic film describing the mishaps of two youngsters enroute to visit their friends ($2500). Caroline Leaf, 24, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for "M," an animated film which tells the story of a man who knows something which makes him different from everyone else ($6,000). Duplication, Distribution Firms Prepare for Video Cartridges Recognizing the possible potential of the duplication, cartridge loading and distribution service for the emerging videocassette market, several companies have already prepared themselves to handle the requirements. Bonded Services and Garden State /Novo, both subsidiaries of Novo Corp., are combining their technical and distribution talents to service the field in offering "complete" physical handling services for all equipment manufacturers, producers and distributors of cartridge video programming." Unfa/ed by the multiplicity of formats. Bonded \'P Mort Wolson figures. "Manufacturers have to decide now about what they are going to do in duplication. They can't wait." He adds that his company "has the machinery, know-how and personnel to perform all of these services for the video cartridge market. On the opposite coast. TeleCassette Enterprises is also ready and underway, with the added potential of actually creating programs specifically for the video cartridge market. Ken Fritz and Rosalind Ross at Tele-Cassette are ready to handle the whole software ball of wax for video cartridge clients. Still another is Videorecord Corporation (sec feature in this issue). Undoubtedly other service companies presently loading Super 8 cartridges are also preparing for the video market. Atlanta Festival Plans Trade Fair, Symposiums The Atlanta International Film Festival is planning to again hold an equipment exhibition and seminars during the week of the festival as it did last year. Festival Director J. Hunter Todd reports that there will be no admission charge to the exhibits and no charge to companies participating in the exhibition. He added that it is his belief that the exhibit will grow into the largest trade fair of its kind in the country. Entries Sought for Animated Film Exhibition Film makers in all graphic techniques are being encouraged to submit films to the Animation Selection Committee for entry in the Sixth International Animated Film Exhibition. Entries will be selected by the Committee at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on February 10 and March 9. March 8 will be the final date entries can be accepted. The annual Animated Film Exhibition will be held again this year in the Museum's Leo S. Bing TheContinued on page 12