Business screen magazine (1967)

NUMBER 2 « VOLUME 28 OF BUSINESS SCREEN MAGAZINE jriie Year's Best Films for Safety Education Top Honors of IN'ational Committee on Filniii for Safety ; Go lo 1 I Pictures: 12 Others Reeeive Awards of Merit TJronzi; Pi.AQLE Awards, symbolic of the ycar"s best moIon pictures for safely education. vmII be presented to 14 producers and sponsors whose titles were Selected from among the 106 irfinalists" in the 24th Annual National Safety Film Contest con■klucted by the National Committee ,lon Films for Safety. 1 1 Another 12 films received 1 (Awards of Merit in the contest, ipudged by leading representatives ijof national safety organizations ijwho are represented on this jury of [experts in the field. The awards I were made in late April at Montreal. Canada. There are four principal categories for entries: occupational safety; home safety; traffic and transportation safety; and general safety. Sound slidefilms are also judged (separately) as are television and theatrical films and r\ shorts and "spot" films. Occupational Safety Awards There were three winners of bronze plaque awards among occupational safety motion pictures produced last year. Facts About Backs, a 14-minute instructional motion picture produced for the Bell System by Graphic Films Corporation, won one of these top honors. It shows the cause and prevention of back ailments. The Hiimllrap Test, a 21 -minute employee color film produced for the United States Steel Corporation by Matt Farrcll Productions, was a plaque winner. Third plaque winner in the occupation group was an inspirational eight-minute color film, created for the .Xerox Corporation by Holland-Wegman Productions. Inc. Titled You ami Ofjice Safety, the picture focuses on typical office practices which create hazards. Four Awards of Merit went to occupational safety films, including another film sponsored by the Northwest Forest Industries' Film A .sct'fM from "Tlu Ildtullmp Test"— Committee ( w inner of a plaque last year). The Cutting Creu, an I I -minute color film, was produced by Rarig's Inc. and covers hazardous problems faced by timber crews. The Humble Oil & Refining Co. sponsored the merit winner. Danger H/2/S, a 13-minute color film produced by William Frutchey Associates. Pre\ention of wire rope accidents was the mission of a meritaward winner. The Day They Dhlii't Inspect the Rope, an eightminute color film for employee showings. Sponsored by the Union Wire Rope Division of Armco Steel Corporation this film was produced by The Jam Handy Organization. The final Award of Merit in the occupational category went to Safety Makes Sense, a 20minute color film on safe practices in lift truck operation. The sponsor was the Industrial Truck Division of Clark Equipment Company and the film was produced by Pilot Productions, Inc. Two Plaques for Home Safet\' Only two bronze plaque awards were given in the home safety group. An 1 1 -minute color film. Donald's Fire Survival Plan, won top honors for its producer. Walt Disney Productions. The film illuminates the need for a family fire escape plan. The other plaque winner among home safety films was Growing Up Safely, a 25 minute color film sponsored by Canada's Department of National Health and Welfare. Produced by Crawley Films Ltd., this picture shows home safety practices which affect children from birth to school age. The very important field of traffic and transportation safety education had 20 "finalists" and three bronze plaque awards went to the best of these films. The 1 .^-minute film, Post-Mortem. won a top award for Cine AssiKiates. Inc. as it showed accident situations caused by common drugs. Charles Cahill & Associates, specialists in safety film production, won top honors with Space Driving Tactics, a I6-minute film which shows the importance of a "space cushion" in traffic. The third plaque award in this group went to a U. S. Air Force :^ZJI^ (CONTINUED ON PAGE 52) "Follow the Leader" challenges individual versatility. Sec II at Expo: "A Time lo Plav Tliree-Sereen Pietiire to lie .Slio» u in the I. S. Pavilion 95 ANorHiR Smash Hii on the .irder of the Johnson Wax film. I'o Be Alive, top film attraction of the New York World's Fair, was unveiled at a preview showing, April 20. at New York's Museum of Modern Art. The Polaroid Corporation's A Time to Play is a most exciting and unique tri-screen motion picture that will be viewed by millions of visitors to the geodesic-domed United States Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal. Canada. It was greeted by the New York preview audience with several minutes of frenzied and sustained applause. The 20-minute film was specifically commissioned for Expo 67 by the United States Information Agency, which wanted a provocative contemporary film in keeping with the U.S. Pavilions theme, "Creative America." A Time To Play fulfills that requisite, being an unconventional treatment of universally-played children's games that reflect the competitive nature of adult society. Based on the philosophy of the biblical text of Ecclesiastes, it suggests the story of the cycle of life with its continuing yet ever changing emotional patterns. The film was created and directed by the well-known American still photographer Art Kane, in his first experience with the medium of motion pictures. His magnificent picture essays have appeared in Life, Look. McCall's Vogue, Harper's Bazaar. Esquire. Sports Illustrated, and the Satur day Evening Post. The film was produced by VPI, of New York. The title, A Time lo Play, is Kane's own extension of Ecclesiastes. Chapter 3, Verses 1-8. which be:ins: "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die . . ." A Time to Play utilizes the triscreen motion picture technique in three cameras were used to create the integrated design of the film. Three motion picture projectors are used to show different, yet compatible scenes on separate screens. The resulting photographic montage is a bold adventure for even the most sophisticated moviegoer. Mingled with scenes of beauty and joy are emotional sequences of real terror. The games that Kane selected for the film were chosen for their ability to reflect adult life with its joys and sorrows; its struggle for existence; its good and evil; and its bold insecurity; and its warmth and goixi fellowship. They arj dramatized by American childn r. of many races at play. Kane ha^ attempted to capture tender, lyrical, blithe and turbulent motxls. The resulting film is neither a lesson nor a form of entertainment, but a sensitive emotional experience. Production credits for \'PI include Kane, as creator and director; Bob Drucker. producer; Mike Murphy, cameraman; Kikimo Kawasaki, editor; and Marc Bucci, music composer. • "Blind Man's Puff"— exploring a face Inj touch oprn.f Firir uorld of perception, (\ccnr in ".\ Time to Play") NUMBER 2 ■ VOLUME 28 39