Business screen magazine (1967)

k. PARTHENON V!# PICTURES U01.LVW00D A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WOROS the right picture And. ot cwiirsc. thr right produrer . . . PARTHENON PICTURES Cap Palmer Exec. Producer 2625 Temple St. • Hollywood 90026 213-DUnkirk 5-3911 William Buch Elected President of Industrial Audio-Visual Assn. •>■ Members of the Industrial Audio-Visual Association, at their annual meeting in the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City on April 25-27, have re-elected William Buch, Lederle Laboratories, as president of that professional society of business audiovisual administrators. Buch succeeded Lawrence Warnock as lAVA president on the latter's resignation to enter promotional work last year. First vice-president for the coming year is Frank Stedronsky, A. B. Dick & Company; William Walton. International Business Machines, is the new second vice-president and Gerald L. Johnson. Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company was elected secretary. Johnson was program chairman for the annual meeting. Other Officers and Directors Other officers-elect are Harold Read, Liberty Mutual, assistant secretary; John Hawkinson, Illinois Central, re-elected vice-president for Illinois (home state of the association ) . Robert Unrath, Port of New York Authority, will serve as eastern regional director; Harry Paney, Arthur Anderson & Co., in the midwest; Marshall Hosp. General Mills, northern regional director; Edward Carroll, Southern Pacific, western regional director; and Martin Broadwell, Southern Bell Telephone Co., is southern regional director. lAVA has retained Fred Woldt, retired former member from Illinois Bell Telephone Co.. as its executive secretary-treasurer. A-\' for Economics, Team Play The well-filled meeting agenda was highlighted by the talk of Dr. Carl Madden, chief economist, U. S. Chamber of Commerce, on "Understanding Economics Through Audio-Visuals." Hank Stram, head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs professional football club, demonstrated the value of films for football training. Arthur H. Wolf, president of the Centron Corporation, Lawrence. Kansas, presented "New Concepts in Sales Meetings" at the annual banquet. Field trips to the audio-visual facilities at the Army Command and General Staff College. Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, to the studios and laboratories of Calvin Productions and an evening tour of Trans World Airlines Pilot Training Center in Kansas City were among the other noteworthy events. Members also witnessed a number of demonstrations of new audiovisual equipment and heard Ott Coelln, publisher of Business Sc"ri;en and a founder of the association, discuss the International Industrial Film Festival held at Venice, Italy, last fall. As one of the judges and an oflicial U. S. delegate, he spoke of the quality of pictures which attained highest honors at this important event. Three of the top award-win films were shown at lAVA i large meeting hall. These outstanding Europeai dustrial films included Two C Centimeters for Life, produce" Leonaris Film (Germany); Hare and the Tortoise, prodi by Cammell Hudson Brown (CONCLUDED ON PAGE "A Year Toward Tomorrow" Wins "Osca •Best Documentar>' Short of 1966" Produced by Sun Dial Fr ■m a Year Toward Tomorrow, an intensely moving half-hour motion picture depicting the work of VISTA volunteers in what has been called "the domestic peace corps," has been awarded an "Oscar" by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences as the "Best Documentary Short of 1966," The film, produced for the Office of Economic Opportunity by Sun Dial Films, Inc., documents the lives of three VISTA volunteers — Eric Metzner, in the slums of Atlanta, and Karen Murkett and Laurie Bergler on a poverty-stricken Navajo reservation in Arizona (See Business Screen. #5—1966) First "Oscar" for Its Producer The "Oscar", presented at the 39th Annual Awards ceremonies held at the Santa Monica, Calif., Civic Auditorium on April 10th, is the first to be won by Sun Dial Films, although a nomination for an award was made to the company in 1946 for The Road to Victory, produced for the U.S. Army. The production staff, chosen to work on the film by Sun Dial's Scene from VisliCs: auaid-U'inning president Carl V. Ragsdale, eluded Ed Levy, writer-direc William Garroni and Ross Lo\ einematographers; John Oettir editor; and Frank Lewin, orig music. Film star Paul Newn after screening a rough cut, so moved that he contributed services as narrator. Film Has Been Widely Showr Mr. Ragsdale received wore his company's "Oscar" a w ; while several fathoms deep in ters off Nassau, the Bahar where he was engaged in shoo underwater footage for Sun D latest film for General Dynar Corp. A Year Toward Tomorrow received wide distribution thro OEO facilities since its rel« about a year ago. It is shown tc new VISTA volunteers for inc trination purposes, and has b seen by thousands of club and c groups. In the past several mon the film has also been shown tl trically, playing leading downtc houses in major cities. * * * * VISTA'S second film, Whil Run This Race, is the subject a feature article on page 40 film "A Year Toward Tomorrow 10 BUSINESS SCRE