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

News about people, organizations, events Have you heard ? FCA Promotes Library Film Circuits Organization of more public library film circuits is the objective of a new Film Council of America project now in the planning stage. The growth of library film circuits in the United States has been steady. The idea seems to many to be the best solution for the smaller libraries who may want a film collection but who do not have the budget to purchase more than one or two films a year. In most of the circuits now operating each library pledges a certain amount each year for the purchase of films and for administrative expense. The largest library in a circuit generally serves as the circuit administrator. Film selection is done by representatives of the libraries concerned. Films purchased are packaged and circulated, usually each month, to the circuit libraries. When a film has been around a circuit two or three times it is cus tomary to retire it to a separate collection where it is available to circuit libraries on a spot booking basis. Yearly schedules are made so that each library in a circuit will know what films it will have during any given month and can reserve bookings accordingly. Under the FCA plan libraries which agree to form circuits would be supplied with the films to start them on their first year. Titles would be from the collection used for the FCA Film Preview Center Project. At the beginning of the program each library in a circuit would receive a package of from five to 10 films from FCA headquarters. After one month each library would forward its package to another library in the circuit according to a predetermined schedule. After the films have been completely around the circuit the last library to have them would return them to the FCA. The plan differs from the Film Preview Center Project in that the libraries participating could book the films This is a scene from the new British Information Services film "On Such a Night," shown recently in New York City. Above we see "David" thanking "Lady Faleonbridge," through whose kindly invention he was able to see the opera. She responds by presenting him with a ticket for a forthcoming performance of "Don Giovanni." freely for indi\idual or group program use in their communities. Libraries forming circuits under the plan would agree, at the end of the first program year, to consider purchasing films on a cooperative basis with each library pledging an annual amount set by agreement within that particular circuit. Circuits not organized as film purchasing operations would be dropped from the project at the end of the first year. Libraries in circuits which do organize as film purchasing cooperatives would be loaned a second and different package of films for 1957-58. New Films from Britain A showing of "New Films from Britain" was held on Wednesday, December 5, 1956, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Presented by the British Information .Services, the showing included the following films: Challenge hi the /I tV— demonstration of Britain's ability in military and civil aircraft as seen at the 1956 Farnborough air show. Bloodstock — pictorial account of the raising of thoroughbreds in Britain and Derby Day at the race track at Newmarket. Trooping the Color— historic ceremony occurring on the Queen's birthday at Whitehall. Atomic Achievement — development of Britain's atomic power for industry, science and medicine. Suez in Perspective— description of the Suez crisis from the British point of view. On Such a \ight— sights and sounds at the opera summer festival at Glyndebourne, on the rolling Sussex downs. New Home for Scripture More than 2500 friends and wellwishers attended the dedication and Open House at the new two-acre Scripture Press Building, December 7, 8, and 9, 1956. Civic and religious dignitaries welcomed the Scripture Press to the Wheaton-Glen Ellyn, Illinois, area (Continued on page 64} 62 EdScreen & AVCuide — February, 1 957