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

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Red Carpet Treatment In The White House \\\ HEN an educational film proluction crew focused on the red carjet in the White House hall, the\' not iiJy recorded history but made it. This was the first instructional moion picture, in full color, ever made if the interiors of the venerable ex•cutive mansion. This 'red carpet' reatment in the White House was ymbolic of today's recognition of the notion picture as a truly educational nedium. The White House, a Coronet ull color production, bridges tv\'o adnlnistrations: initial arrangements vera made through the Eisenhower residential press secretary's office; he completed film was presented to resident Kennedy. Members of the White House staff /ere most cooperative, it was reportd. A technician and a guard were ssigned to facilitate the work of the amera crew during the three halfays of shooting that covered the lany interior shots. Through the camera's eye the visiir begins his tour through the wellnown North Entrance and moves owly along the corridors for detailed bservation of other named rooms lat often feature in the news. The presidential office, the Oval Room here diplomatic receptions are held, le Green Room, the Blue Room, the Movie-Goer Every move that President Kennedy makes these days, is news, but none of his many unexpected gestures has caused more comment or more pleasant pubUc reaction than his surprise visit to a local movie theatre to see "Spartacus." The busy President apparently suddenly decided he wanted to see a picture so off he went with a couple of secret service men to the Warner Theatre, a few blocks from the White House. The theatre had no warning; the President sat in tlie orchestra, and not until intermission did his fellow movieSoers know he was there. —The Film Daily (See Front Cover) China Room with its historic exhibit of diimerware used by former presidents. This 15-minute film was designed primarily to enrich the teaching of American history at intermediate and high scliool level. Historical authenticity was checked at every point by Allen W. Moger, Ph.D., professor of history at Washington and Lee University. Included in the film is a sequence of unusual historical engravings that trace the gradual formation of the present structure. The interior views show many furnishings, paintings and historical mementos. This film. Coronet's 1,000th instructional motion picture, is produced specifically for classroom use. John .Siuarl, president of Esquire, Inc., Films, presents President Kennedy with Vi hite Honse: I'ast & Present." The fihn Kennedy. parent eompany of Coronet Instruetional the first print of the Coronet film, "The was previewed by the President and Mrs. A nienit>er of the prodnetion erew takes a light reading on the prt>sidenlial seal dnring filming at the While House. )i CATioNAL Screen and Audiovisual Guide — May, 1961 219