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The President Speaks Visiting Artists Program ( ACADEM Y OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES WI NTE R, J 979 THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS an audio tape of his work there ment Award, and Burton Lee Harry, which will be made available upon recipient of the Dramatic Achieve­ With th is edition, the Academy Bul­ request to students and teachers ment Award. letin takes on a new look and a new of film. Winners received $1,000 and a name. Unlike its predecessor, the Sim ilarly, director Jeremy Kagan trophy, plus the opportunity to have Academy Interim Report will be just visited the University of Arizona at their films included in the compi­ what the title implies: a report on Tucson, where he conducted cast­ lation film that the Bell System will all of the Academy's activities for the ing and directing workshops which present on college and university preceding several months, in this in­ were videotaped and gave other campuses. stance from July through December, specialized lectures based on his 1978. It is designed to keep the More than 300 films were entered film work. He was there two-and-a­ membership and others apprized of in the 1979 competition. Work is half da)(s and hosted the premiere the Academy's functions, progress already underway on the Sixth An­ college screening of our Student and growth. nual Student Film Awards. Entry Film Awards compilation film. We, of course, do much more forms and rules have been distrib­ than award Oscars for film achieve­ uted to universities and colleges ment. In addition to our much­ STUDENT FILM AWARDS throughout the country. Deadline publicized Awards Presentation, the for submissions is April 2. ( Academy conducts a broad range of A compilation film of the Fifth An­ cultural and educational activities nual Student Film Awards, produced SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS which serve and benefit the film by the Bell System and featuring the community and the public. By peri­ four winning student works, was Scholarships and grants continued to odically outlining what each depart­ premiered for members and the play an important role in the Aca­ ment of the Academy has been public at no charge. The program demy's activities. Prominent among doing, it is hoped that the mem­ was held on Dec. 4 in the Samuel these was continued financial sup­ bers will be better informed about Goldwyn Theater. port for two AFI programs, the their own organization and have The film premiered simultaneous­ Academy Internship Program and a clearer understanding of its ly at the American Film Institute at the Academy Chair Program. accomplishments. the John F. Kennedy Center for the The Scholarship and Grants Com­ Howard W. Koch Performing Arts in Washington, mittee voted $18,000 for ten interns, President D.C., and two days later, Dec. 6, at the largest sum ever allocated for the Museum of Modern Art in New this project. Showing the Academy's York. Howard W. Koch, Celeste broad range of activities in the edu­ VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM Holm, Jack Gilford and some Stu­ cational and cultural area, $3 ,000 dent Film Awards winners attended Two important filmmakers partici­ was also contributed to support the pated in our Visiting Artists Program. the New York showing. T. Hee, third ed ition of "The Film Program­ Director-writer Gordon Parks made chairman of the Student Film Awards mers Guide to 16mm Rentals," a a successful one-day trip to the Black Executive Committee, introduced comprehensive gu ide on how to find Film Institute at the University of the the program at the Academy. Also and rent 16mm films, and $5 ,000 to District of Columbia in Washington, on hand were David Bishop, recipi­ fund two Graduate Fellowships at D.C. The Academy has transcribed ent of the 1978 Animation Achieve- New York University. ( ANNUAL INDEX TO acquire important publications on graphs and clippings, donated inC MOTION PICTURE CREDITS microfilm, such as the New York memory of Mrs. Ben Turpin by her Dramatic Mirror. niece and husband, Dr. and Mrs. (Formerly Screen Achievement In addition to supervising an av­ R. Paul Harrington of Texas; photo­ Records Bulletin) erage of 400 still duplication orders graphs and color transparencies of Like the Academy Bulletin, the per month, Photographic Services Henry Grace's set designs; and 69 Screen Achievement Records Bul­ Coordinator Robert Cushman/with a Goldwyn film publicity scrapbooks letin is receiving a new look and a grant from the National Endowment by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. new name. The successor will be a for the Arts and matching funds Continuing donors of rare and hard-cover publication distributed from the Academy Foundation, has valuable materials were Charles G. by Greenwood Press and titled trained a technician to restore the Clarke, Sol Dolgin, Hank Moonjean Annual Index to Motion Picture 115,000 still photographs that are and Bruce Torrence. Credits. The Academy will continue glued into still books in the Para­ Additionally, both industry and to collect and edit the data, but the mount collection. Each still must be non-industry people donated a va­ copy will be sent to Greenwood for soaked free from its book, rewashed, riety of material to the library. printing and binding, with publica­ dried, identified and enveloped. The tion and distribution by Greenwood project will be completed in two each May. The subscription rate will years. PLAYERS DIRECTORY be $95, non-subscribers cost, $125. The library hosted a session of the The staff worked on two new issues Those interested in subscribing 2nd AFI Documentation Workshop ofthe Players Directory, No. 141 and should contact Greenwood Press, 51 in July. Archivist Samuel Gill and No. 14.2 Issue. No. 141, out Feb. 15, Riverside Avenue, Westport, Conn. Robert Cushman participated in a is the largest ever published by the The Academy will continue to pub­ panel entitled "Cataloging and Pres­ Academy, with 11,278 entries and lish two updates per year, under the ervation of Special Collections: over 5,000 new photographs. Ap­ new titles: January-April Interim In­ Manuscript and Photographic Col­ proximately 40% of the players had dex and May-August Interim Index. lections." Another Academy staff some type of change (agency, class­ They will be available (to subscribers member, Anthony Slide, gave a talk ification) from the previous direC-( of the Annual only) for $70 ($35 on early trade periodicals. tory. Considerable work was also each) from the Academy. The Academy was also represented done on the next issue, due out at the Society of American Archivists May 1. Conference in Nashville, Tenn. The New computerized procedures MARGARET HERRICK LIBRARY focus of this year's conference was have been installed which should As usual, there was a great deal of "Preserving the Past." reduce production time by approxi­ activity on the fourth floor. About Library staff members also at­ mately three to four weeks. All data 850 people used the library each tended the AFl's first Film and have been captured in computerized month from July through December, Television Archival Cataloging and form, greatly reducing the manual and the staff answered approximate­ Documentation meeting in Wash­ steps of individual copy paste-up, ly 1500 telephone calls each month. ington, D.C., which gave them the collation and generation of indexes. The library continued to acquire opportunity to meet with colleagues This new computerized technique new holdings and added 150 new from the Museum of Modern Art, was instituted for Issue No. 141. books to the collection since July. the Wisconsin Center for Film Thea­ A gift from member Sol Lesser en­ ter Research and representatives NATIONAL FI LM from 35 other institutions involved abled the library to purchase a mi­ INFORMATION SERVICE crofilm/microfiche reader-printer with motion picture documentation. and a complete set of Weekly Variety Recent additions to the library's There has been little letup in this from 1905 to the present on micro­ special collection include Ben Tur­ service, with the staff answering an film. The library will now be able to pin's personal scrapbooks of photo- average 150 queries a month from Page Two i \ film professionals, students, educa­ Years." It was a tribute to the city past Honorary Academy Award win­ tors, programmers and the press. of Hollywood on the occasion of the ners, plus an in-depth look at the Among the more unusual inquiries 75th anniversary of its incorporation. area of Special Visual Effects. to which the NFIS responded were Featured in the exhibit were artifacts The occasional series of tributes from a correspondent in Iceland from films produced in the geo­ to winners of Honorary Oscars be­ seeking to establish a film archive graphical location of Hollywood, in­ gan in July with a full-house tribute there, an English university student cluding Buddy Rogers' boots from to Groucho Marx, introduced by the writing a thesis on the Lone Ranger, "Wings," a cape worn by Mary Pick­ comedian's friend and colleague, and the International Historical So­ ford in "The Taming of the Shrew," George Burns, who received a stand­ ciety for Research and Recognition W. C. Fields' hat from "It's a Gift," ing ovation. Following an hour of of Overlooked Seven Foot Basketball scripts and other items from several film clips, Academy First Vice Presi­ Players asking about a 1953 feature, Three Stooges comedies, a throne dent Fay Kanin moderated a panel "Invaders from Mars." and gown used by Bette Davis in discussion with Morrie Ryskind, Others using the service included "The Virgin Queen," one of the Bronislau Kaper, Nat Perrin, John the Dinah Shore Show, the Utah Arts cameras used by D. W. Griffith in the Guedel and Arthur Marx participat­ Council, the International Commu­ making of "Intolerance," and others.
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