Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

News. continued Grand awards are $100 in cash for the best photoessay and a two-week Navajo-land tour (or equivalent) for the travel slide winner. Winners will be announced and winning sequences will be shown during the 1961 PSA National Convention in New York, September 26-30, 1961. Deadline for both competitions is July 1, with entry forms due on June 1. Forms and complete contest rules can be secured from T. C. Wetherby, APSA, 116 Avenue L, Pittsburgh 21, Pa. Achievement Award To Be Made At Film Festival A new annual award saluting an outstanding person in the audiovisual field has been established by the board of directors of the Educational Film Library Association and will be presented for the first time on April 21 at this year's American Film Festival. In announcing the new honor, the association's president Frederic A. Krahn said: "For the past three years EFLA has honored excellence in "Film-makiiiti in Alriia" will lie the subject of an American Film Festival panel discussion led by 16nim producers who have recently made films in .Africa. Here one of the festival speakers. International Film Foundation's Julien Bryan, is shown on location during the filming of his to-be-released ".\frica." ENSfNeE/fING FEATURESmake ■Me&e. OA-UTE fito/ecfion Sci^&tS 6esf-f6/-c/assfvom use /SELF-LOCKING EXTENSION TUBE — Sturdy 1 ' square seamless steel center tube and %' extension tube, chrome plated. Easy-operating Height Adjuster and Screen Case Lock. Convenient knobs provide positive stops in all positions. 2 "GABLE-ROOF" ALUMINUM LEGS — Legs of heavy-gauge extruded aluminum form sturdiest of tripods in combination v^ith Da-Lite's heavy cast tripod leg bracket. Supports a man's weight. O STURDY ROLLER, OCTAGON J CASE — Pre-set positive safety stops on roller prevent fabric from being torn off. Octagon case prevents fabric scraping . . . has patented "no-rub" flat back. A AUTOMATIC LEG LOCK, FABRIC T LOCK — Leg lock fastens all three legs, releases at touch of toe. Fabric lock protects screen surface from sagging or shifting in carrying or storing. Locks closed screen rigidly in place. 5 SLAT SADDLE COLLAR AND PLUG — Long slat-saddle insures wrinkle free picture surface. Collar and plug protect edges from fraying. Z FLEXIBILITY IN HEIGHT— ^ Case adjusts from low at tripod leg bracket to high at top of center tube. Square sizes adjust to rectangular. Even largest size at highest case position extends to full 70' x 70' (128') height. 7 FAMOUS "WHITE MAGIC" SURFACE— White Magic glassbeaded surface seamless in all sizes. Whiter, brighter and stays white. Brilliant, life-like pictures, excellent color. Viewing over wider seating area. Flame and mildew resistant. Also in mat white. Vidiomaster A \\ is engineered for Audio-Visual needs in the field of education. This heavy-duty portable tripod has features that assure years of outstanding service. Vidiomaster A is unequalled for performance. Write for full details on the entire line of Da-Lite Screens... tripod, hanging and electrically-operated — and name of franchised A/V Da-Lite dealer in your area. AUDIO-VISUAL Da-Lite SCREEN COMPANY, INC., WARSAW, IND. atidiovisual production with its Festival Blue Ribbon Awards for 16mm films and 35mm filmstrips. It seems fitting, therefore, to honor in a similar way the hard-working and dedicated people who have done so much to extend the use and the usefulness of audiovisual materials. We propose that one such EFLA award be voted and presented each year by the members and officers of the association on the occasion of the award banquet which climaxes EFLA's annual American Film Festival." Nominations for the EFLA award will be made each year by the members of the assocation, each of whom may send to a special EFLA award committee the name of the person who, in his judgment, has done most over a period of ten years or more "to expand or develop significant use, production, or distribution of audiovisual materials on the Icx^al, regional, national, or international level." Bettmann Collection Being Moved To New Quarters The Bettmann Archive, brought to the United States in 1935 by its founder. Dr. Otto L. Bettmann, and now one of. the fixtures of the U. S. publishing, advertising and graphio arts community, has moved to largei quarters at 136 E. 57th St., New York' Moving vans transferred a 35-year< old accumulation of prints, photoi graphs and books; a special collectiot> of film stills of the Pearl White ano Mack Sennett era; tons of irreplace' able glass negatives documentini American history and life from th Civil War to the 1920's; magic lantn slides showing comics, classics of In erature, and temperance lecttiri Other items in the collection help t round out what is called a "grapli history of man's life." F.niir.ATioivAi. Screen and Audiovisual Guide — April. 1 96<l