Business screen magazine (1958)

Send Your Film To The Complete 16IVIM Service Laboratory Unsurpassed for . . . SPEED -n p QUALITY Personalized SERVICE MOTION PICTURE LABORATORIES, INC Phone WHitehall 8-0456 781 S. Main Street rPU Memphis 6, Tenn. ^ke l^a^tcr (Lmftimanihip lour ^ilnx ^~L>eien'ei IJo * A long-haul pipeline company, ■facing public ill-will due to unsatisfied demand for more fuel, used a film to tell three million people what it was doing to ease the shortage. The film was written by . . . Film Scripts Associates * 550 FIFTH AVENUE • NEW YORK 36, N. Y. For the script you need Write or call PLaza 7-6i5i OXBERRY ANIMATION STAND For Rent Day • Week or Month with or without operator Oxberry camera, l6/35mm shuttles, Trlmotion motorized compound. Follow focus cams, 3 lenses. Automatic dissolve. 4 Acme or Oxberry peg tracks. CORWIN STUDIOS 480 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. MUrray Hill 8-3278 THE SERVICE FILM OF THE MONTH Colorado Films the Story of a Program for Migrant Workers Sponsor: The Colorado State Department ol Public Health. Title: Colorado Cares, 20 niin., color, produced by Western Cine Productions. ■A Seeking harvest chores in many states each year come meager caravans of human beings selling hand labor. When the picking job is done in one place, these laborers rattle down the road following the fruitful season. They are called migrant workers. Without them, the yield of many farms, groves, orchards and vineyards would be wasted. Forever displaced, the migrants are the economy's gypsies, streams of people who make their home in jumbled trucks and take pot luck in other men"s fields. They are strangers living among strangers, no true tribe themselves and without enduring ties to any community. "Recession" to them would be a pompous word but '"part-time," impermanence and poverty form their life story. A Long Way From "Grapes of Wrath" For a long time this story has been a shame of the nation; Ma Joad and her brood dying amid the grapes of wrath. Steinbeck's vision of the dusty '30's lingers in many places and much remains to be done for migrant workers. A bright scene, contrasting with the dark documentaries, is provided in Colorado Cares, a film showing what one state is doing to help migrant workers. What members of the Mesa County Migrant Council are doing for the workers in Colorado should have meaning for other communities with similar problems. Colorado Cares depicts a program which is based on the understanding that migrant workers need more than opportunity for employment. Responsible persons in Colorado recognize the migrants as humans in need of practical friendship. The workers need the same services that home citizens require and their needs are increased by their nomadic existence. Special Challenge to Other Regions The lilm shows Colorado's organizations bringing sanitation, water supply, medical care, hygiene, education, recreation and sociability S-T MAGNETIC FILM RECORDING DUBBING SYSTEM A completely transistorized, automatic operating magnetic film and optical sound system for professional heavy-duty use. Supreme quality at low cost. Write for Above: the children of iuii;ranl workers are a special concern of piihlic heuhli and welfare eflons pictured in "Colorado Cares' to migrant peach harvesters and their children. The opening of the first school for migrant children is a special challenge to other regions: this education can find completion only if other communities establish schools for migrants. The story of need and accomplishment is linked by a girl's travel-worn doll which hangs on a truck as a migrant family rides into the workers' camp. Later the doll is kicked in the dirt by a migrant boy. Eventually, the little girl, now in a new red dress, rides away with her doll, with reason to know that someone cares. The responsible people of Colorado reach out past the camp to care for outlying migrants; and they try to impart something more important than physical aid: they try to encourage responsibility and neighborliness among the migrants, giving the wandering workers a new sense of citizenship. This is only a beginning, says the narrator at the close of Colorado Cares, hinting that the new sense of belonging and self-responsibility among the migrants can grow like the crops across the nation if other states care. Colorado Cares is being recommended to groups engaged in health and social work and to religious organizations. It is available on free loan and has been cleared for television. Prints may be purchased for $98.00. Contact: Colorado State Dept. of Public Health, Health Education Section, 1422 Grant St., Denver 2. ART67VIDEART ANIMATION TITLES OPTICAL PHOTOGRAPHY COLOR or B&W — 16 or 35MM 343 LEXINGTON AVE. NEW YORK 16, N.Y. LExington 2 7378-9 ^VlDFAnT BUSINESS screp:n magazine