Business Screen Magazine (1965-1966)

I I WAS FESTIVAL NIGHT in Co lunibus. Ohio on that gala Friday evening, October 1st. when members of the Greater Columbus Film Council and their guests gathered at that city\ Gallery of Fine Arts for the annual Chris Awards banquet which culminated the 13th Film Festival hosted by the organizatit>n. The top award at Columbus is the symbolic Chris statuette and this year 13 of these were awarded in the live principal categories of the festival. With traditional generosity, fortified by the numerous entries from studios and sponsors throughout the U. S. and Canada. Columbus also bestowed more than 150 Certificate Awards on tilms accepted for showings. Citizens of the "Athens of the .Midwest"" and surrounding counties saw the prize-winning festival films on Saturday and Sunday. October 2-3, in the auditorium of the Battelle Memorial Institute. Best in Business & Industry The winners of Chris statuettes as the best of their class for Business & Industry were: Sunrise at Easwrn. produced by Audio Productions. Inc. for Eastern Air Lines (see B/S #5. page 41) and a Wolper Productions film titled And Away We Go. In the category of Special Fields, where five motion pictures received Chris statuettes, the -American Telephone & felegraph film. Beyond All Barriers, produced by Larry Madison Productions, led the list. Another Wolper production, hour Days in November (t.v. documentary); Fifty Years of Floods, produced by WBNS-TV; Scott s Last Journey. entered by Contemporary Films; and Colonial Naturalist, submitted by Colonial Williamsburg, were the other four statuette winners in this group. Travel and Health Winners Two travel films won top honors in this category: The West Indies, produced by William Deneen. Inc. and a Swissair-sponored film, (jifls of Winter, received the statuettes. The Health and Mental Health film category had six winners of Chris trophies, leading off with For Children Because We Canproduced by the U. S. Publ, Health Service Audiovisual Facility. I'oint of View won a "Chris"" for Vision Associates and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company also won with The Time of Growing. Fminlini; Fascia, submitted by Ohio State University, Statuettes to 13 at Columbus Film Festival Over 150 .Motion Pictures Rereive Certificate Honors at 13th Aiiiiiial ltaii<|iiet of lli< (ioliiniliiis Film ('oiineil won the statuette, as did Clinical .Applanation Tonometry, produced by Dynamic Films. Inc. The final winner in this group was Children on the Move, produced by Coronet lilms. Educuli(>n-lnforniatii>n Pictures The group of F.ducational-Information films had only two C^hris statuette winners. Michael Birch & Associates received one of these for The Sea: Sterling Educational Films. Inc. won the other for The Smallest Elephant in the World. In the field of Religion, a single C"hris statuette was awarded to Cathedral Films for TJie Guide. These Won Multiple Honors Columbus could be sure of a large turn-out at its Awards Banquet by simply inviting all the recipients of its Certificate Awards. Too numerous to list in detail, some noteworthy "multiple"' winners received four or more certificates. Among these, the Douglas Aircraft Company was cited for The Many Faces of Mexico. Three Facets of Adventure. The Wind of Chuni;e and The Sleeping; Giant. In addition to its Chris statuette. Audio Productions received certificate awards for Jacohy. Before It's Too Late. The Invisible Power of Coal, and The Land — Lei>ac\ and Promise. Winners of Two or More Awards Dynamic Films v\on in several groups, with certificates for American Challenge in Special Fields; A Maftazine Only a hloinemaker Could Love, in Business & Industry, as well as the "Chris " for its medical winner. Four Henry Strauss & Company productions received certificate honors in the Business & Industry class. Follow the Leader, Image, lis Always Now and A Matter of Balance were the Strauss" winners. The Jam Handy Organization had two award winners in Business ".■\nierica the Koiintiiul" icon Chris amird for jam lldtidy (.hiiaiiizatioii. & Industry: America the Bountiful and The Pursuit of Profit were cited in this group. The National Safety Contest plaque winner. .S7//;.s and Falls, won a certificate award at Columbus for Parthenon Pictures, as did another Parthenon entry. Mu.scles That Think. And Wilding. Inc. scored with two certificate awards in the Travel group, being cited for Africa — Jet Safari and The Colors of Italy: also taking home two more certificates in Business & Industry for Lighl.' and The World Ne.xt Door. Bailey Films, the Centron C"orporation and Film Associates of California were other multiple award winners at this 13th annual gathering. • Win Honors Abroad CINE Reports on Awards from \«'iii«-f and Kdinl>ur^li T^ACTUAL Motion Pictures pro-* duccd and sponsored in the I'nited States have been accorded numerous honors at various film festivals abroad within recent months. The films were entered through the Council on International Nontheatiical Events (CINE). Top awaril at ihe Venice. llaK ".Siiiirisi :il ICaslerii " wiin a Chris Statuette Award as OIK' of two hi'sl films Iroiii HiisiiK'ss \ liidusIrN : Scene (ri(>ht) .v/ioif.v .vomc (harming recent uradiialcs of Air Lifif.v' school foi . ainitiii of stctcarilc.y.\c\ International Exhibitiir for Children (the Lii Mark ) went to The Seat, produced by Saul Bassl ates for the Eastman K| pany's New York wj Pavilion. The film CIDALC prize at the umentary Festival. .A plaque of the L| Mark at the Venice Festival was won by| Without, produced by C \ Productions for the NatiiJJ cation Association, \\,| D. C. The St. Mark aui Children's event was to .S'/((>viy Day. produced ton Woods Studio. C\ ACI Productions and Million Teenagers, by I Films, also received plaq in that competition. Edinburgh Honors Filn Programmed at the H burgh Film Festival (tg to an award, since this;! non-competitive ) was , U for the Fair, produced Oi Murphy Productions for i'.<ta ican Telephone and Tcl The Searching Eye als'wv. this honor as did the W five titles shown at Eil Clay, by Eliot No\ Harvard University; / ()/ Jimmy Blue Eyes, p; Robert Clouse .Associai Trail of the Iguana, pi Professional Film Si. Seven Arts/MC.M; //. With a Heart of Gold by C^arson Davidson; in Wet, produced I Groening. A television documci Our Men. produced h\ * I Productions and sponsi^' I 3M Company, won tl the \T Grand Prenii< tioiiale della lecnio International Electronic and Tcledocumentary 1 "The -Sea" Won (iolden The Didactic Film Exhil \'icenza. Italy, brought hi| three \^M Golden' Ea I he Sea. produced by Birch for f-lncyciopaedia! Films, won the Golden Discovering Line, pnxlu' Film .Associates of Califor lirst prize in television; ai' ( ommunication Satellites!.'by the same producer, "4 other first prize. ' ///(' .S'<'<; won a furllv award: the Cup of the Prt of the Ministry and Coi the Milan. Italy Maritime' nienlary l-ilm Review. (I'LtiASL I URN rO PA(^' 16 BUSINESS S