Business screen magazine (1967)

Producer Stuart Finley accepts a Blue Ribbon award from Peter Cott for his prizc-icinning color film, "The Third Pollution" (sec below). Ralph Tuchman was on hand to get a Blue Ribbon award from presenter Ted Mahne for his nwtion picture, "The Lives You Touch." LOGO Attend 9th American Film Festival in New York Educational Film Library Association Hosts Panel Discussions. Awards Banquet Honorin" Best Motion Pictures and FUnistrips Selected from Among 830 Entries Over a thousand non-theatrical film specialists, both users and producers, were on hand for this year's Annual American Film Festival, held at the Biltmore Hotel in New York. May 10-13. The event, ninth in a series of programs initiated in 1959, is sponsored by the Educational Film Library Association. It culminated in gala banquet ceremonies on Friday evening, May 12. at which Blue Ribbon Awards were presented to winners in some 48 subject area categories. Winners were chosen from over 300 motion pictures. 8mm films and filmstrips screened at the Festival before the final award juries. Pre-screening jury members had previously winnowed the field down from 830 films submitted to the Festival. Winners of Multiple Honors Noted Multiple award winners included the National Film Board of Canada (4). Guidance Associates (3). Audio Productions (2), Churchill Films (2). and Fraser Productions (2). In addition to the awards competition and the screening of winners on May 13, the Festival offered a diversity of special program events including a talk by Willard Van Dyke, noted film producer and Director of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art, and several panel discussions on such subjects as The Uses of Animation. Using Creative Film in the Classroom. A Community Oriented Film Center, and Do Public Library Film Librarians Need Their Own Organization? Tl^TMVERS OF BLUE RIBBON AWARDS -': A resume of this year's Festival winners follows: Agriculture, Forestrj', and Natural Resources Life in The Balance, produced by Equinox Films. Inc.. for Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). Distributed by Modern Talking Picture Service. Citizenship, Government, and Citj' Planning The Third Pollution, produced by Stuart Finley, Inc. Classroom Films for Lower Grades A Verj Special Day: An Adventure at Coney Island. Produced by Richard Beymer. Distributed by Universal Education and Visual Arts. Conservation Films Progress, Pork Barrel and Pheasant Feathers, produced by Fisher-Slezas Films. Distributed by Contemporary Films, Inc. Current Events and International Relations Inside Red China, produced by Columbia Broadcasting System. Distributed by Carousel Films, Inc. Economics, Business and Labor The Modem Corporation, produced by Sutherland Educational Films for The .Mfred P. Sloan Foundation. Distributed by Sutherland Educational Films. Education and Child Development To Touch A Child, produced by Centron Corp. for The Mott Foundation. Distributed bv Modern Talking Picture Service. Festival Highlights .\t left: Administrative director Emiltj Jones chats ivith a fumed film maker . . . julitn Bnjan . . . and Right: members of the festival jury who helped select Sales and Promotional films submitted for festival honors in Neie York. Geography Films I '^ Mekong, produced by Shell International Fl ^ Unit; sponsored and distributed by She! | |j Company. Vocational Guidance In A Medical Laboratory, produced by Churc Films for National Committee for Careers Medical Technology. Distributed by Put Health Service, Audiovisual Facility, Atlai Georgia. Personal Guidance No Reason to Stay, produced by Nation d F Board of Canada. Distributed by Encyt pedia Britannica Educational Corp Biographical Films Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the Woi produced by WGBH Educational Foundati Distributed by Holt. Rinehart & Winston. History Films Battle of the Bulge — the Brave Rifles, produi by Mascott Productions. Language and Communication Arts The Pleasure Is Mutual: How to Conduct EfP live Picture Book Programs, produced Connecticut Films. Inc., for Westchester Libri System. Distributed by The Children's Be Council, Inc Nature and Wildlife Films Life Cycle of the Monarch, produced by K Middleham Productions. Tied With The Wood Duck's World, produced by James ' Wilkie, Continental Machines, Inc. Recreation, Hobbies & Crafts Cooper's Craft, produced and distributed by C lonial Williamsburg. Inc. Science — General Background The Noisy Underwater World of the Wedd Seal, produced by William Claiborne for t New York Zoological Society. Instructional Science Insect Metamorphosis, produced by Norm Bean. Distributed by Film Associates of Ca fomia. Social Documentary Films Sixteen in Webster Groves, produced by Colut bia Broadcasting System. Distributed Carousel Films, Inc. Sports Films Water Ski with Buick, produced by General M tors Photographic for Buick Motor Divisio Distributed by Modern Talking Picture Servic Film as Art Time Piece, produced by Muppels. Inc. Disirl uted by Contemporary Films. Inc. Graphic Arts, Sculpture & Architecture Eskimo Artist Kenojuak, produced by Nation Film Board of Canada. DisU-ibuted by Coi temporary Films, Inc. Music, Literature & Film Buster Keaton Rides Again, produced b\ N: tional Film Board of Canada. Distributed b Contemporary Films. Inc. (continued on the following page 22 20 BUSINESS SCREEI