Business Screen Magazine (1965-1966)

m i TALL BUILDING NEEDS DEEP EDDNDATIONS The foundation of a documentary film is a penetrating survey which will shape the plan of the film, and. t>earing in mind the audience for which It IS to be made, decide its scope. The steel framework is the script, which will give the film its final form. As the steel is clad with the stone, so the script is given substance by intelligent direction good photography polished editing faultless sound. But ultimately the functional suitability of the building depends upon the skill of the architect. Behind every Reid Ray film is the experience of a pioneer in film production. Like a building, a Reid Ray film is an investment. MOTION PICTURES TELEVISION COMMERCIALS SLIDE FILMS REID RAY FIL ^S 2269 FORD PARKWAY / 208 S. LA Sa ST ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA / CHICAGO. ILLl, if; SIGHT & SOUND AAA Traffic Safety Foundation Makes 22 Titles Available ai Cost i< Trustees of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety are making it easier for safety education film users to help save lives and reduce injuries through wider use of the sight/sound medium. 22 up-to-date traffic safety motion pictures are now to be made a\ailablc at the cost of making the print and putting it on a reel and in a container. And shipping charges are prepaid in the U.S.A. and Canada. The Foundation has absorbed all other costs involved in each of these films. For example, a dozen 16mm motion picture subjects, ranging in length from 13 to 14'/2 minutes each, are offered at only .S3.'> in color; at $15 each in black & white. Titles include: The Talking Car, The Safest Way. Your School Safety Patrol. Freeway Driving Is Different: Stay Alive, and Your Child and Traffic. Ten animated films for children's viewing {Otto the Auto Series) are four and one-half minutes each and offered at $13 per title in color; only $6 per black & white title. A brochure describing ail films is available from Burton W. Marsh, Executive Director. AAA Foundation for Traffic .Safety. 1712 G Street. N. W.. Washington. DC. * * * SMPTE Awards Two Scholarships to Rochester Institute Students ■A The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has presented its second Scholarship Award to Lincoln Perry of Watertown. Mass.. and to Robert Van Arsdell of Malvern. N.Y. Both young men are undergraduate students in the Photographic Science course at Rochester Institute of Technology. Both Perry and \'an Arsdell were .selected by R.I.T.. administrator of SMPTE scholarship program, to share the award by virtue of their unique similarities in both past and present scholastic achievements. Perry's interests focus on the chemical and electronic applications of photographic science as related to computer methods in photographic problems. Van Arsdell plans entering government service in photographic programs. The Society launched the scholarship program lo furlher encourage higher education in the photo graphic and television scieiv with an initial grant of $25,C from Saul Jeffce, president .Movielab. Inc., New Yu * * * Foster Mullenax of West Virgini Wins Farm Film Foundation Prl «• The Farm Film Foundatio annual $500 Professional lmpro< ment Award has been won Foster G. Mullenax. State Exti sion Editor for Radio and Te vision at West Virginia Universi His film. Spring Comes to K troux, was accorded that hor at a dinner given by the Farm Pi Foundation and the Foundati for American Agriculture Athens, Georgia, on July 13. The awards ceremony was o of the highlights of the anni meeting of the American Associ tion of Agricultural College B tors, held at the University Georgia during that week. William O. Maxwell of the I ternational Harvester Compar Chicago, was the principal speak and assisted Edith T. Bennett, c ecutivc vice-president of the fil foundation in the presentation Mr. Mullenax of the award ct tificate and check for $500. .' honorable mention certificate ai check for $50 went to runner-i Richard G. Turner of Cornell Ur versity. Judges who selected the winne were: Dr. Landis Bennett, charge of audiovisuals in the A ricultural Extension Service, Nor Carolina State University; N Maxwell; and James E. Gibso former Chief of the Motion Pictu Service, U. S. Department of A riculture. WRITER-PRODUCER DIRECTOR AVAILABLE Experienci-: 10 \c.ir\ uilh Icadil industrial film, educational film u advertising companies, plus expo ence writing and producing li' television shows, short theatric films, and staged revues. Oualificiitions: A little knowledge almost every subject — a love picuires and words — an awarcne of how people speak and act, at the ahilily lo transhile this into tl languages of film, radio and tel \ islon — a capability with camert recording equipment, lighting ai design — a sense of humor. Kcquircnicnis: Permanent empl" ment or steady free-lance work ' .1 contract basis. Write: Box BS5-1 BUSINESS SCREEN 7064 Sheridon Rd ' Chicogo. Ill 6M1< 28 BUSINESS SCREEN •']i,