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

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And ECCO #1500 is used by many Hollywood film studios and TV networks — NBC, CBS. Discover for yourself that it pays to clean film as the industry's leaders do — with ECCO #1500. CLEAN AND INSPECT FILM IN ONE EASY OPERATION APPLICATOR Save Time, Fluid, Labor, Money! WitfTf t»4ay far FREE ECCO * ISOO brochure. OROfii fCCO'1500 from your deafer, or diracr. 'Notisnal Awdie-Vitual Aitociation Bulletin, October, 1956 ELECTRO-CHEMICAL PRODUCTS CORP. *0-C rranklin Street, Eoit Orange, N. J. Mozart's life, skillfully handled with the use of flashback incidents, and ending impressively with a segment of the Mozart Requiem. Teacher-Supervisor was Abraham Buchman. Third prize (50 LP records and a high fidelity phonograph) was awarde<l to ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for their entry: a complete Mozart puppet show, as well as a scrapbook filled with research information, mobiles a n d wallpaper designs. Their teacher is Sister Mary Josette. Principal at ST. VINCENT DE PAUL is Sister Mary Simonetta. Fourth prize (50 LP records) went to JACK YATES SCHOOL, Houston, Texas. The 29 students of this eighth grade class wrote and taped an original play titled "Much .Ado About Mozart." Within this dramatization were performances of Mozart and arias, as well as some of his keyboard music. Teacher: Mrs. Gloria Duke. Principal at JACK YATES: William S. Holland. Fifth prize (25 LP records) was awarded to LINCOLN JR. HIGH, Meriden, Conn. These 20th century Mozart fans chose to use the modern medium of radio, and with amazingly fine technique produced an adaptation of the famous CBS Television program YOU ARE THERE. They set up inquiring microphones at the site of the premiere performance o f Mozart's DON GIOVANNI. Among the opening-night celebrities i n attendance were Beethoven, who confided to the reporter that "the performance was terrible; the music was superb," Benjamin Franklin, who when asked what he thought of the work, said: ". . . better to ask me what I though of 'Don Giovanni.' Tliere was a man! As to the music, I have a tin ear." Their teacher is Miss P. McLaughlin. Principal at LINCOLN JR. HIGH is Mr. T. Mason Brown. Prize Winning Films "Man of .ACTION," slum-fighting cartoon motion picture produced by Transfilm for the .American Council To Improve Our Neighborhoods (.ACTION), has won a 1957 Sponsored Film .Award presented by Scholastic Teacher Magazine on May 7 at the Advertising Club of New York. I'he film, which has been seen by 49, 000, ()()() jjersons in community showings and on television, was sponsored by the Continental Can Company and contributed as a public service to .ACTION. In addition to the latest honor, the film has received a Freedom Foundation award and a Cleveland Film Festival citation. It is distributed on free-loan through the regional libraries of .Association Films. The citation for the best film of [ewish interest produced in 1956 went to Romulus Productions at the annual conference of the National Coimcil on Jewish .Audio-Visual Materials, held on Friday, May 17, at the Herzl Institute, 250 West 57th St., New York. The prize-winning film was "The Bespoke Overcoat/' a 16mm, 37-minute film starring David Kossoff and .Alfie BaNS, script by Wolf Mankowitz, music bv Georges .Auric. Distributed by Brandon Films, Inc. It tells about a poor Jewish tailor who helps the ghost of his late friend, Fender, to take a wryly humorous revenge on his former employer by stealing an overcoat from him which he coveted for many years. The citation for the best filmstrip of Jewish interest produced in 1956 went to the Jewish Education Committee of New York. The prize-winning filmstrip was "Albert Einstein," written by Robert Garvey, art by Robert Frankenberg, edited by Azriel Eisenberg. directed by Ezekiel Schloss — a 46-frame color filmstrip, presenting highlights of the life of .Albert Einstein, world renowned scientist, great humanitarian and staunch friend of Israel. Honorable mention went to the Commission on Jewish Education, Union of .American Hebrew Congregations for the filmstrip, "Rabbi Stephen S. Wise: A Twentieth Century Prophet," a 43-frame color filmstrip, with recorded narration, written by Mel .Alpern, edited by Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, illustrated b y William L. Steinel a n d produced by Samuel Grand; Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of .America for the film, "/ Came to Beersheba," a 28minute color film, written by Millard Lampell, photographed by Fred Csasznik. produced and directed by Stephen L. Sharff; the Jewish Theological Seminary of .America and the National Broadcasting Company for the kinescope, "Lawyer pom Boston" — a 30minutc kinescope on Louis D. Brandeis, based on the NBC TV Religious Hour Program, 'Trontiers of Faith"; and to the National Committee for Labor Israel for the filin, "South Window." a 26-minute color film, script by Nahum Ciuttnian, photography by J. Janilowics, iiarrated by Norman Rose, produced and directed by Joel J. Briet. .Arthur Zegart, documentary film producer/director for Information Productions, New York, was honored at a luncheon at the .Ambas,sador Hotel on Wednesday, May 1, as a cowinner of the Albert Lasker Medical Journalism .Award for 1956. The award was presented for outstanding report 374 EdScreen & AV Guide — July, 1 957