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

16MM COLOR SOUND EDUCATIONAL FILMS of SUPERIOR QUALITY SOUTH AFRICA 22 Minutes $180.00 Color-Sound Hist uric ('iiiuto\Mi ; Kiniherley Dianioiitl Mines, JuliannestniPtj ; }'ouriiig Ktild hars ; I'reloria in Jac-aranda lime; Zulu life in the Kraal; Zulu (lances ; Purhan ; wild animal life and scenes in Kruger Park. This over-all picture gives a comprehensive treatment of the important asijects of South African life; industrial activities; agriculture and mining. VICTORIA FALLS 1 1 Minutes $90.00 Color-Sound This beautiful iiicture locates Victoria Falls on the Z;iml)fsi KivcT in relation to Southeni and Northern Khodesia aiid South Africa. Jt shows the town of I-iivingstone and country surrounding the Falls with its abundant wild life, including the elephant, buffalo, hippopotamus and crocodile and gives for the first time tiie complete story of the world's most spectacular water falls, called by the nf.tives ■"Smoke that Thunders." EAST AFRICA 22 Minutes $180.00 Color-Sound British Fast Africa; Kenya. Tanganyika: Tganda ; the seaports of Mombasa and I>ar es Salaam and the mo<lem cities of Nairobi and Kampala. Dairy herds; tea. coffee, pyrethrum and sisal plantations. "The Great Riff. Lake Victoria: Ripon Falls, source of the Nile; Murehison Falls, heart of primitive Africa: snow-capped Kilimanjaro. Colorful tribes — a Wakamba dance; vast herds of animals ; elephant ; giraffe; rhino ; hippo ; butTalo ; ostrich ; antelcpe ; black-maned lions. Paul Hoefler Produtfions 7934 Santo Monico Blvd. Lo) Angelei 46, California Knufrrii lirpri-u-nlnth MARTHA HErSING ^^ >■■ Romance of Transportation II mins. color Sole $115 Rental $6.00 A film of unusual high quality on the successive stoges in the development of transportation in Canada. An animoted film produced by National Film Board of Canada. Distributed by INTERNATIONAL FILM BUREAU INC. 57 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago 4, III. Pierre FRESNAY in his first HiikHsIi ^lirahiiia role . . "THE AMAZING ^/f, onsieur FABRE' The dramatic .^Kiry of the poor Kruiuli boy who rose to the position of one of the world's greatest entoinologists. Arailable in I fin, excluHivelu fn Contemporary films inc Ul«.J?M.lh^,M«,r.*l» . MUrm, Mill M104.S "MANNA ft SOUTH SEAS" Bajic educational story of life of the Fiji Islanders, and their dependence on the world's most important tree — the CCMIONUT PALM. 5th Gr. to ColleEC. Educ. Coll. Edith Davidson, AV Dir.. Seattle Schools, R. A. Derrick, Curator. Fiji Museum. 20 min. Spot Sound Color (19} For preview and teacher's guide, write MARTIN MOYER PRODUCTIONS 900 Federal Ave. Seattle 2, Wash. The most interest-compelling demonstration yet of the stature the non-theatrical film has won AMERICAN FILM ASSEMBLY, 1953 llic Film Council of America's Second Film Assembly and Golden Reel Film Festival proved a powerful magnet that drew film and soundslide enthusiasts to New York's Waldorf.\storia hotel from all over the land. High point in the program, which took up the whole first week in .\pril, was a banquet session at which more than 600 diners watched the award of "Oscar" equivalents to winners in 25 motion picture and three soundslide categories (facing page). In his welcoming speech. New York's mayor, Robert F, Wagner, went far beyond the customary routine greetings and gave a finely-reasoned, highly-appreciative discourse on the importance of the 16mm film. The main address was delivered by Paul Rotha, veteran British documentarist, who fiew the .Atlantic just for this occasion: the Rev, S. Franklin Mack, head of the Broadcasting and Film Commission of the National C:ouncil of Churches, delivered the invocation; Dr, Paul Wagner, FCA head, presided. Especially Impressive Two general evening sessions were especially impressive. In the first. Bosley Crowther, famed film critic on the New York Times, challenged both audience and a panel of notables on the implications to the non-theatrical field of recent technological advances ranging from ever-wider screens to picture-on-tape for individual viewing. In the second evening session Dr. James Card, curator of films at the George Eastman Hou.se, deprecated the whole idea of any 16-3.5 millimeter distinction, and chided educators for their alleged aloofness to the transcendant virtues of the theatrical entertainment film per se. Difficulties Evident More than 300 motion pictures and nearly a hundred soundslidcs, coming from approximately 200 entrants, were judged in a crowded three day schedule, the winners being shown during the two following days. Entries conformed more strictly to category lines this year, thanks to a new pre-screening routine enlisting the cooperation of film groups from coast to coast and broatlening the evaluator base con siderably. The diificidties of getting objective judgments on any basis of individual subjective impression under one-time \iewing under quite abnormal conditions remain evident. Productive Conferences The "assembly" activity, as distinct from the more glamorous "golden reel" phase, was centered in .some productive group conferences and in se\eral workshop efforts. .Amcjng the former were the Soundslide Crjnference, the F^ilm Society Caucus, and meetings of the College .Art .Association, Independent Film-makers Association, Eastern Medical .School .Audio-Visual Co-ordinators, Local Film Councils, Film Preview Centers, and similar special interest groups. In some areas at least the effort to run film-user workshops collapsed because of small attendance and the greater attractive power of "film for film's sake" programs. Such workshops have greater meaning contiguous to large subject area meetings where the film serves rather than dominates. 1 he 1955 New York .As.sem"bly represents perhaps the most interest-compelling demonstration yet of the stature the non-theatrical film has won. The metropolitan daily press gave excellent news coverage and some editorial recognition, and tele\ision and film audience use of the award films will spread this inlkience for months to come. A New Test Less encouraging was the relatively limited advertising and exhibit space support by most of the audio-visual industry. .A new test of FC.A's industry and ma.ss support will come in response to a just-announced membership drive — individual FC:.V memberships are solicited at %b per year, producer memberships at .l!;50 to S50(), manufacturer memberships at .SlOO to .'>2000, Income from membership and industr\ sources was never impressive in FC.A's earliest days when its program was broader but its accomplishments less tangil)le. Today, when FCA can point to numerous programs actually carried out-not the least of which is the Second Film .Assembly and Golden Reel Film Festival — the outcome may be otherwise. -WFK 224 Educational Screen