Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

]>urposc. At the Awards Banquet the Golden Reel Award was presented to the film rated the highest in each subject-matter category (see list). The award-winning films were given a second public screening on the last day of the Assembly. Throughout the .\ssembly and Festival, the focus was much more on film than on talk. There were, to be sure, some scheduled discussions and the usual informal discussions at all hours in coffeeshops and hotel suites. But the 16mm film kept the spotlight even at the Awards Banquet in competition with comedian George Gobel. There were only two speeches. At the banquet on ,\pril 2 Dr. .\lbert W. Trueman, Government Film Commissioner in Canada and Chairman of the C;;inadian National Film Board, described how and why the world-famous anadian National Film Board came nto being and how it operates. .At the luncheon session on .April 1, speaker Gilbert Seldes, regular contributor to the TV and Radio Department of The Saturday Review, pointed up the infinite variety in the Kimm film field — variety of techniques, of subjects, of purposes, of financing— and stressed the importance of such variety. "So long as we have various sources from ■which the creative power rises, we can ex|)eot change and improvement," he said. "If the making of movies is concentrated in one place, in one group, in one kind of jjerson alone — then, no matter how good the product, it will not serve us well; it cannot grow; it will stale." Now that the Film Festival is over, in a very real sense it is only beginning. Now the award-winning films will be sent out to local film councils throughout the country to be shown to new audiences of film-users and program-planners. The following film councils have alreatly scheduled showings: Duluth, Minnesota; International Falls, Minnesota: Topeka, Kansas; Los .Angeles, California; Dayton, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois (an encore, of course), and Spokane, Washington. •Another on-going result of the .Assembly and Festival is a "Film .Society Caucus" organized so that film societies throughout the nation may coordinate their activities. (For more information, write .Art .Assum, Chairman, Film Society Caucus, Room 854, 430 S. Michigan .Ave,, Chicago 5, Illinois.) And so the work begun at the first annual .American Film .Assembly and Festival goes on into the future toward the second Amercan Film .Assembly ;ind Festival in 195.'). — JNS GOLDEN REEL AWARD WINNERS ( 1 ) Agriculture and Natural Resources AMERICAN FARMER Entrant: Ford Motor Company. Producer: MPO Productions Recognitions of Merit to IN FERTILE SOIL (Entrant: Alan Shilin Productions. Sponsor: Notional Council of the Episcopal Church) ond UNDERSTANDING OUR EARTH (Entrant: Coronet Films) (2) Geography and Travel LAND OF THE LONG DAY Entrant: Notional Film Board of Canada. Recognitions of Merit to EL DORADO (Entrant: British Information Services. Producer: ArgosyCrown Film Unit) and HIGHWAY BY THE SEA (Entronf: Ford Motor Company. Producer; Dynamic Films, Inc.) (3) Graphic and Visual Arts MARTIN AND GASTON Entrant: George Brest and Associates. Producer: George K. Arthur. Distributor: Brandon Films. Recognitions of Merit to HENRY MOORE (Entrant: British Broadcasting Company-TV. Distributor: British Information Services) and ANALOGIES NO. I (Entrant: James R. Davis. Distributor: Film Images, Inc.) (4) History and Biography THE AMERICAN ROAD Entrant: Ford Motor Company. Producer: MPO Productions Recognitions of Merit to THE SETTLER (Entront: National Film Board of Canada) and THE AIR AGE (Entrant: Time, Inc., March of Time Division. Distributor: McGraw-Hill Book Company) (5) Home and Family FRUSTRATING FOURS AND FASCINATING FIVES Entrant: Notional Film Board of Canada. Producer: Crawley Films, Ltd. Recognitions of Merit to LET ME SEE (Entrant: Department of Cinema, University of Southern California. Sponsor: Los Angeles Nursery School for Visually Handicapped Children) and ROOTS OF HAPPINESS (Entrant: Mental Health Film Board. Producer: Sun Dial Films, Inc. Sponsor: Puerto Rico Dept. of Public Health) (61 Medical Sciences PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS Entrant: E. R. Squibb & Sons. Producer: Sturgls-Grant Productions. Recognitions of Merit to MAN TO MAN (Entrant: Mental Health Film Board. Producer: Affiliated Film Producers Inc. Sponsor: States of New Jersey, Michigan end Alaska. Distributor: International Film Bureau) and MOLLY GROWS UP (Entrant: Medical Arts Productions. Producer: Photo and Sound Productions. Sponsor: Personal Products Corporation) (7) Religion and Ethics FOR EVERY CHILD Entrant: Broadcosting & Film Commission, Dept. of Children's Work, Dept. of Audio-Visual and Radio Education of the Notional Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. Producer: Paul Heard Recognitions of Merit to ONE MAN'S OPINION (Entrant: National Film Board of Canada) and HERITAGE (Entrant: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith — made in cooperation with the United Christian Youth Movement and the Catholic Youth Orgonizotion of Chicago. Distributor: McGraw-Hill Book Company) (8) Safety FARM PETROLEUM SAFETY Entrant: American Petroleum Institute. Producer: Colburn Film Services. Recognitions of Merit to LOOK WHO'S DRIV ING (Entrant: Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. Producer: United Productions of America) ond OUT OF DARKNESS (Sponsor: General Electric Compony. Producer: March of Time) (9) Soles Promotion QUALITY IN PHOTOGRAPHIC LENSES Entrant: Eastman Kodak Company Recognitions of Merit to TIME FOR EVERYBODY (Entrant: CBS-Rodio Network. Producer: United Productions of America. Distributor: Movies, USA Inc.) and EVERYBODY'S HANDICAPPED (Entrant: Notional Film Board of Canada. Producer: Graphic AssociatesSponsor: Canadian Dept. of Labor) (101 Science "A" IS FOR ATOM Entrant: General Electric Company. Producer: John Sutherland Productions, Inc. Recognitions of Merit to EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT NO. I — THE CHICK (Entrant: Notional Film Board of Canada! ond OPERATION HURRICANE (Entrant: British Information Services. Producer: Ministry of Supply, London. Sponsor: Central Office of Informatio.-i) (11) Sociological and Political Understanding SKIPPY AND THE THREE R'S Entrant: National Education Association. Producer: Agrafilms Inc. Recognitions of Merit to WORLD WITHOUT END (Entrant: Unesco. Producer: Basil Wright, international Realist, Ltd., London. Distributor: Brandon Films 1 and MAJORITY VOTE (Entrant: National Film Board of Canada) (12) Training WORKING AND PLAYING TO HEALTH Producer: Affiliated Films. Sponsor: Illinois Dept. of Public Welfare. Entrant: Mental Health Film Board. Distributor: InternotiongI Film Bureau, Inc. Recognitions of Merit to FIGHTING FOREST FIRES WITH HAND TOOLS (Entrant: Notional Film Board of Canada. Sponsor: Canadian Dept. of Resources & Development — Forestry Branch), FUNCTIONAL TEACHING OF BASIC ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS (Entrant: Dept. of the Navy, Washington, D, C. Producer: Dynamic Films), and SEEING IS BELIEVING (Entrant: Caterpillar Troctor Company. Producer: The Calvin Company) May, 1954 181