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FILM MUSIC NEWS FILM MUSIC Scholastic schedules are giving more and more space to film COURSES study. The Canadian Film Yfeekly reports that authorities in various branches of the motion picture will lecture during "The Film and Society" series sponsored by the University of Toronto. The course, the first of its kind to be sponsored by a Canadian University, covers the theatrical and non-theatrical field, production pro- blems, film techniques and film appreciation. London University has a Film Music course again this year, dealing with all aspects of the subject. The University of Southern California, whose motion picture department was start- ed in 1928, presents an important course. The Screen Producers Guild will furnish the staff for a thirteen lecture Production Symposium making highly professional information and experience available to the one hundred students qualified to take the course. Each session will be preceded by the screening of an appropriate film. Carey Wilson, Arthur Hornblow Jr.,Arthur Freed and Jerry Wald are among the producers who will participate. ANNUAL Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna are establishing annual awards AWARDS for the best films made by students of film production at American colleges, as a means of bringing to light the"enor- mous reservoir of talent and ideas to be found on American campuses". Entries will be judged by a board of ten film producers who will select winners in seven categories: best writing, directing, camera work, editing, production, and best actor and actress. FILMS FOR The National Broadcasting Company is planning production of THEATRE VIDEO fine feature length films for theatre video, using successes from former network shows as basic material. The films will be made in New York at the Center Theater, which has been con- verted for television purposes. With a shooting schedule of four days each, the films are budgetted at about $150,000 apiece. SOUND PICTURE Warner Brothers has issued a sixteen page booklet in connection ANNIVERSARY with the 25th Anniversary of the presentation of the first suc- cessful modern sound motion picture. The booklet brings up to date the company's book list on the motion picture issued in 1946. The present listing with its brief reviews was compiled by Bernard Karpel, Librarian of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. FILM KUSIC In the latest issue of the Quarterly of Film, Radio and Televis- ON RECORDS ion, Gerald Pratley of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has an extensive listing of film music on records, "This com- pilation", says Mr. Pratley, "does not include recordings of concert ballads, popular songs, or any other kind of songs which were compos- ed for films. Neither does it include music used in film scores but not written specially for them." Copies at 50 cents each may be had from Mr. Pratley, 63 Fulton Ave., Toronto 6, Ontario, Canada.