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Labor Honors Its Pictures of the Year
5th International Labor Film Festival Held in Montreal
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"Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle, or Mutilate" brought the Sational Film Board a Festival Grand Prix and a first jyrize for Trade Union fUms.
SEVENTEEN AWARDS were given motion pictures deemed "most useful to labor education"' as the 5th International Labor Film Festival concluded a successful five day program in Montreal. Canada on August 15. Sponsored by the International Labor Film Institute, the Canadian Labor Congress and the National Film Board, the event attracted 200 delegates from four continents and included a forum on the role of film in adult education.
Awards were presented at a closing reception held at the Queen
Elizabeth Hotel by Fred Terselius of Sweden, chairman of the 13-man international jury which included members from Canada, Israel, the U.S.. Belgium, India, Germany and Austria. Special recognition was given to the National Film Board, host for the screenings, "for pioneering and excellence in the production of labor films over the decades." Films of the NFB also received a first prize award in the category of Trade Union Subjects when a 50-minute subject. Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle, or Mutilate, was honored by the jury. This film also received the Grand Prix of the Festival. Another Film Board production, Steel Town, won a second prize for Social Information.
First prize winner in the Social Information category was Joint Effort, a 25-minute film produced by Nordisk Tonetilm of Sweden; a German film. Heiite fur Morgen, won first honors for the Arbeiterwohlfahrt of that country in the area of Worker's Aid and Welfare films.
Another Nordisk Tonefilm pic
ture, I'ower & Equality, was a first place winner in the category for Economic & Social Problem films; this company also received a second prize for So Matty Worlds in the same category. In the group of Films for Education, Nordisk took another first prize for Young Today.
The final category of films for Safety & Accident Prevention brought a first prize to Spell of Shock, an Israel-produced film
"Slips and Falls" was the winner of second prize honors for the Safety and Accident Prevention category. Film teas produced by Parthenon.
"Huelga" won a third prize ff; Screen Productions of Seatth hour-long film depicts the m labor strikes at Delano, Calij^
entered by Histadrut. The ^j award for "artistic merit" wenl< a U.S. film. The Inheritance, ]3 duced by Harold Mayer Protl! tions for the Amalgamated Qcji ing Workers of America. Spei recognition was given by the r to Ein Mann der Nichts Gewi't produced by Zweites DeutS($ Fernsehen of Germany. i
A special animation prize p awarded to Chroinophobia, sb mitted by the Belgian Ministeig Labor. ' i
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