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FILMING AT U.N.
THE General Assembly of the United Nations will convene Tuesday, April 5, and will continue in session for five weeks thereafter. The meetings will be held in the General Assembly Hall at Flushing Meadows Park, site of the late New York World's Fair. How To Get There: by car from Manhattan, cross Queensborough or Triborough Bridge to Grand Central Parkway, turn at U.N. sign onto Horace Harding Boulevard direct to grounds; by subway from Times Square or Grand Central Station, Corona-Flushing train on IRT to Willets Point station on grounds. To Lake Success: by car, Grand Central Parkway to U.N. sign at turnoff; by train, Long Island R.R. from Pennsylvania Station to Great Neck and connecting U.N. bus.
For permission to take pictures in the Council Chambers, amateur filmers should first see Frederic Abbott, Department of Public Information, at Lake Success. Exposures in the Chamber average //2.3 on Super XX under general illumination, //4 under flood lights. No special permission is needed outdoors.
For day by day data on United Nations meeting times, subjects, ticket information and the like, visitors should refer to the regular U.N. columns in The New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune.
RICHARD V. ELMS, ACL
Official United Nations photographs
PERMANENT U.N. headquarters, now under construction along New York's East River, may be filmed in model at Lake Success site.
FIFTY SEVEN flags of the member nations flank the U.N. General Assembly hall at Flushing Meadows, old fair site.
EXPOSURES at meetings, such as that of UNESCO above, run from f/2.3 on Super XX under room lights to f/4 under flood lights.
VIJAYA L. PANDIT, India, only woman to head General Assembly delegation, talks with one of her daughters during break in session.
MOVIES ARE made by U.N. film unit of all important activities. Scene here is for record of East River construction.