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(continued from preceding page) selected for the final showing out of 319 entries. Leading in the Festival program were Great Britain and France, each with 10 entries chosen. Belgium. Germany and the United Stales won recognition with three entries each. Canada had two films. New Zealand one selected for final showing. The Gamblers was entered in the Human Labor Problems category. Good Business and Minor in ihe Mountain were entered in the Industrial Psychology category. Other honored films by category were: (Human Labor Problems) — l.ontrol of Haenwrrhage and Treatment for Shock from Great Britain: Wherever We May W ork from NewZealand; Chris Sans Echo, Les Enlisements. Le Journal rles Monlcornet,Les Mains and La I oie Nominee Danger from France. (Industrial Psychology) — Removal oj Clothing and Treatment of a Fractured Collarbone. Application of the Thomas Splint and Artificial Respiration from Great Britain: Cent Cinquante par Jour and Midinette from Canada; Vn Probleme I ieux Comme Le Monde from France. (Productivity) — Time, Space and Effort and Keeping Things Moving from Great Britain : Die lorn Mertenhof from Germany: Une Chronique d'Etude el de Preparation du Travail and Terre de Progres from France. (Vocational Training and Instructional Films) — Friction. Principles of Ultrasonics and The Spectograph from Great Britain; Der Bleie Accumulator and Turbogeneratoren Mit Wasserstoffkuhlung from Germany; Zenobe Gramme: Une Grande Figure du Travail Beige from Belgium; Le Soudage de V Aluminum el de Ses Alliages from France. (Ports! — Pipe-Line du Yin from France; Pourlen der Natie and Les Partes Soudees de L'Eiluse Baudouin from Belgium. Non-governmental films are submitted to the Brussels Festival through the Film Council of America. 8' Film Cnuncil Elects IVew Bnard 12 New Directors Selected A .NEW DOARD of 12 directors has -'* been elected to govern the Film Council of America. The board is composed of persons elected separatelv by FCAs three divisions of membership — to represent the particular division from which thev were elected. Reelected to represent the FCA Commercial Mendiership was J. R. Bingham, president of Association Films. Inc.. New York City. Also chosen to represent the commercial members was Charles H. Dand. director of films and publications divisions. British Information Services. New York City. Bingham's audio-visual field ac by Individual Member Vote ti\it\ includes his chairmanship of the film committee of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the L . S. A. and his immediate past chairmanship of the FCA board of directors. He is a former president of the Educational Film Library Association and a former president of the New York City Film Council. Dand. a native of Scotland, has a background in journalism and script-writing for feature films plus work in documentary short film production in London. In 1949, Dand joined the Central Office of Information in London to advise on the distribution of the British government's documentarv and infor HOLLYWOOD MAKES BETTER PICTURES, TRIMS COSTS WITH j/ ^ J. c*. na:G.A.x.xsrrx3XC i* ** ^ EQUIPMEHT .Here, how! . ^*;^So can you! "«'*' " \u Exclusive, "Perma-Lock" Mirror guarantees permanent alignment! Only Perma-Lock mirrors snap mto position and lock ! This guarantees perfect focus at all times. Jolt-proof ! "Easy-Action" controls tor front AND rear focusing! Guarantee smooth, steady, accurate focusmg with ease from spot to flood. Exclusive "Beam Pilots" kill flare or spill-light. Safest, most competent fused stage plug! 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Elected as FC.4 Organizational Membership representatives were Miss Helaine S. Levin, chief of the film library, bureau of library and indexing service. American Dental Association. Chicago, and Alex Sareyan. executive director. Mental Heahh Materials Center. Inc.. New ^ ork Citv. Miss Levin is president and past secretary of the Chicago Film Council. Her other experience includes her position as vice-president of the Audio-Visual Conference of Medical and Allied Sciences and her membership in the National Education Association and the Biological Photographic .Association. Specialist in Mental Health Sareyan was public relations director of the National Mental Health Foundation and the National Association for Mental Health between 1946 and 19.52. In 1953. he helped establish the Mental Health Materials Center. His other affiliations include the Mental Psychiatric Association, for which he has served as film consultant, and his membership on the board of advisors of the Child Study Association of .America. The eight Individual Membership representatives elected to the FCA board of directors were: Jerome Cushman. librarian of Salina Public Library. Salina. Kansas; Maury J. Glaubman. program director of the Institute for Democratic Education and national audio-visual director. Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. New York City; Wesley J. F. Grabow. audiovisual materials advisor. University of Minnesota; Dr. Carolyn Guss. associate professor of education and associate in selection, audiovisual center, Indiana University; Morton Schindel. president. Weston Woods Studios. Weston. Conn.; Harlow D. Stevens, district manager for Ciiok County. 111.. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. Inc.. Wilmette. III.: Dr. Paul A. Wagner, representative for Colmes-Werrenrath Productions. Chicago, and immediate past president and board member of FCA; Gordon Weisenborn. president, Gordon Weisenhorn Pniduiliiins. Inc.. Cliii agn. New Directors' Background Cushman has been a co-sponsor of FCA Film Previews, a co-founder of the .Salina Cinema Guild. He is a past president of the Kansas Library Association, a founder of Cinema Discussion, an experimental discussion program of adult films. He also is a past president 184 BUSINESS SCREEN MAGAZINE