Business Screen Magazine (1965-1966)

i I I I ^■■' -^ ^Af'TE -iNEMATOGRARCA Palace of llic Ciiunui on Vdiirc's Lido: silr of the Seventh International hultistriul Film Festival. World's Best Industrial Pictures to Compete at Venice "■"ndustrial Films selected by national juries ■*■ throughout Europe and in the United States and other lands worldwide will compete for international honors September 13-18 when the 7th International Industrial Film Festival is held in Venice. Italy. Host for this years e\enls in that historic city by the sea is the Italian Confederation of Industry, serving on behalf of the Council of Industrial Federations of Europe under whose auspices the Festival is organized. .All films shown at Venice are presented through industrial federations of the entering lands (or similar organizations). U. S. entries, for example, are submitted by the National Association of Manufacturers. Each country may present a maximum of 15 entries but not more than four in any of the seven festival categories. Thsese categories are defined below. Sr. Giacomo Guiglia. of the Italian Confederation's secretariat (official host at Venice) has defined the festival's objectives: ( 1 ) to furnish a panorama of industrial activities and of the progress made in production, research and management by industrial organizations; (2) to show the position of industry in a free stxiety and the social problems which arc involved; (.3) lo stimulate, through international competition, the production of industrial films of the highest quality; and (4) to evoke closer collaboration between countries through showing of the industrial progress which each has achieved. The working press of many countries covers this event. At last year's festival, in Rouen, Irance, both daily newspapers and business journals from throughout Europe were represented and an International Press Award was presenled to one of the category winners: The lorih Ruaci Bridge. Representatives of major management were also present as well as the heads of European industrial federations. Through the cooperation of our correspondents and friends abroad. Bi'SiM ss ScRi.tN is privileged to present first lists of international entries from Belgium, Britain, linland, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, an! Spain as well as U. S. entries. Here are the first entries for this important international competition at Venice: ENTRIES FROM BELGIUM (Category designations not identified) Aulocritique. Sponsor: Ministry of Transport, Producer: Belgique Cine Publicite. Puissance et Aulomatisme. Sponsor: Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi. Producer: SOFIDOC. I)u Choix des Precedes a la Reception des Combustible Irradies. Sponsor: Eurochemic. Producer: Proniinconi. Des Dangers et des Hommes (Of Danger and Men). Sponsor: Protection Civile — Ministry of Interior Affairs. Producer: Belgique Cine Publicite. I,es Vojageurs (The Travelers): Sponsor: BPAntwerp. Producer: Art et Cinema, COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF CATEGORIES FOR THIS INDUSTRIAL FILM FESTIVAL Cati-Kor>' A: Industrial Suhjectf. Films about industrial qui'stions (EconDinic, social, technical or scientific) of Rencr.il interest — for showing to public. CateRory B: Industrial Products, Films about specific industrial products, materials or projects, intended for showing primarily to the general public. Category C: Industrial "Image'' Films. Films aiming less at information than do the films in Categories A and B, but which have the puri'ose of contributing to the prestige of the organization concerned, intended primarily for the general public. Category D: Technical Information, Films about specific industrial jiroduets, materials or projects or about iniluslrial leehniques (management methods, measures for increasing productivity, efficiency .and output, rationalization, automation, application of modem techniques, etc. ) intended primarily for specialist audiences. C:alegory F.: Industrial Kesearch, Films on industrial application of scientific |>rinciples and research intended primarily for special audiences, including educational establishments, rather lh,an for general showing. Category F: Manpower Training. Films on management and iiiangxiwer training ( vocational guidance and training, training within the firm, etc.) and on manpower promotion and human relations within the firm. Intended lor industrial audience, not the public. Category G: Safety Films, Films on accident prevention, occupational diseases, health re-education and measures of social security, intended rather for an industrial audience than the general public. • Itritaiii Choose.s Entrie§ for ^^„,. in National Film .\Mards Competi m |>RITAIN'S National Industrial Film *-* Competition, organized by The Bnih dustrial Film Association and its mcnilrv of audiovisual and film managers withijle ing concerns in that country, was London on May 23-24 at the Shell Ihcatre. S. E. 1. Miles Pitts-Tucker, chairman of BI nounced the selection of the 15 motiil tures which will represent Britain in tion at the 7th International Industria Festival to be held in Venice. Septemf 18. The entries to this year's nationa a petition total \52 motion pictures sutijt by 89 governmental, business and imst organizations in Britain. Mr. Pittsic noted that more industrial films wer n being made in that country for spccializ t technical audiences than for general \ii.^in The awards were presented to sponsors by Mr. Roy Mason, .M. P.. .\ „ of State, Board of Trade, at a lunchecfl at the Savoy Hotel, Strand, London W" on Wednesday. May 2.^th. This was ak occasion for the presentation of a new ated Industrial Film Correspondents prize, presented by the vice-chairman i group. Mr. Brian Watkinson. Here are the titles, sponsors and pni* of the 15 British entries which will ccp for that country in Venice: Categont A: Business & Industrial Subi Horizons Unlimited. Sponsors: Foreign Commonwealth Relations Office. Colon) fice and the Association of British Ae: Constructors. Producer: World Wide Pi( Why Not Uncle \Mll.v? Sponsor: Midlam Executor & Trustee Company Greenpark Productions in association w Film Producers Guild and Charles Sons. Pni Bat: •i n Category' B: Industrial Product Film The Tortoise and the Hare. Sponsor: Pirel Company (GB) Ltd. Producer: Cammel son & Brown John. Category C: Indu.strial & "Image" FBi Design for lodaN. Sponsors: 1 orcign Coniinonwcallh Relations Office and th( nial Office. Producer: .Associated British Category I): Technical Information Spat System. Sponsor: CiKN Screws and ers. Producer: Rayant Pictures. Vuuxhall Bedford England. Sponsor: V MoiKis. Producer: .Arthur Woosier. Category E: Films on Industrial Resea Distillation. Sponsor: Shell International leum. Producer: The Shell Film Unit. Pom-r from Elision. Part 2: The Probl Contaiiiiiu'iil. .S|iiiiisor: L'niteJ kingdom ic Energy Authority. Producer: G. H Smith, in association vMth the Film Pi Guild. Forward to First Principles. Sponsor: Briiis u.i\N Bo.ird. I'rodiicer: British Transport (CONTINUED ON THE FOLLOWING PA( Xhl b 'cin n I ton ni SINESS SCREEN 19'