Business Screen Magazine (1965-1966)

830 Films Compete for Honors at American Film Festival, N. Y. ii Roger L. Stevens, chairman of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, will be the honored guest speaker at an American Film Festival luncheon on Thursday, May 12. The event is jointly-sponsored by the host organization, the Educational Film Library Association and the New York Film Council. 830 motion pictures and filmstrips have been submitted for blue ribbon honors at this year's Festival, which will be held at the Hotel Biltmore in New York City from May 11-14. The awards banquet. clima.\ing three days of competitive screenings in 44 subject area categories, will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Biltmore. Offer Program of Si>ecial Tours Festival guests will be able to take part in a diverse program of special tours, demonstrating how films are prtxluced. distributed and used. They may also join any one of five free-for-all panel discussions of current controversies in the audiovisual field. Included in the tours are visits to Reeves Sound Studios and to the headquarters building of MPO Videotronics, a major producer of tele Imporlaiit Events on the Industry Calendar vision commercials and sponsored films for industry. On May 13, a scries of panel discussions led by recognized authorities will be on the Festival's afternoon agenda. Topics include "The Impact of Federal Spending on the Audiovisual Field", "The New Role of Films in Multi-Media Programs", "The Inter-action of Television and Films," and "The Creative Filmmaker and the Functional Film." The Committee on Physical and Mental Health Films will also present a prtjgram of films and discussion on "Stress: Its Causes and Effects" on May 13. Sliow Awar<l-\\'inners on Saturda\ 1966 Blue Ribbon award winners will be shown on Saturday, May 14. following the awards banquet on the previous evening, at the Biltmore. Festival information, advance programs and reservation forms may be obtained from EFLA, 2.50 West .^Tth St., New York, N.Y. 10019. • * * * Catholic Audio-Visual Educators Present Film Awards on April 14 7^ The Catholic AudioVisual Educators Association will hold its first Communication Arts Award dinner at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago on Thursday evening, April 14th. Awards are to be presented in 10 categories of motion pictures and to a like number of outstanding 3.'>nim filmstrips which have contributed to Catholic education. CAVE president, the Rev. Louis Rongione. O. S. A. will introduce the presiding officer of the awards' program, the Most Reverend Joseph Hodges, Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia and Episcopal Moderator for the Catholic audiovisual organization. • * ♦ * 27th National A-V Convention in Washington, D.C., July 16-19 ■'■ The 27th National Audio-Visual Convention and Exhibit, hosted by the National Audio-Visual Association, has taken as its theme "Audio-Visuals = Dynamic Communication." The annual gathering of audiovisual dealers, equipment makers and service companies will be held July 16-19 at the Washington Hilton, in Washington, D.C. Max Rarig, of Seattle, Washington, is general chairman of the convention. Here is what this NAVA pioneer sayl "Our theme this year expi.sej a conviction that is fundamital to our reason for having ar annual gathering of the people md products of the industry," ciirman Rarig said. "The NAVA onvention and trade show arc living demonstrations of the act that audiovisuals do, indeed, i ual dynamic communication, rcrdless of whether this communicion happens to take place in the (issroom, the church, or in the lar ket places of business anc industry." Underscoring the associa in'i move to Washington for its irsi annual gathering in history oi id( of Chicago, the convention t m< may also be abbreviated to "A-V = D.C." Federal speijini for education has made anim portant contribution toward \ie\ utilization of audiovisuals thrc gb out the nation's schools. UNITED AIR LINES jet -piston -historical -in-flight and airport scenes -complete film catalogue available 35 mm/ 16 mm COLOR and BLACK & WHITE Cor«tact Publicity Department New York :2 5225 ChicaflO RA 6-5500 UNITED Washington RE 7-6830 Los Angeles HU 2-3300 PREe FILM PROVIDED TO PRODUCERS FOR AUTHENTIC AIRLINE SEQUENCES BUSINESS SCREEN • *