Academy of Motion AMPAS PUBUCA no Picture Arts and lences library. Beverly Hills. Ca/j1 . NUMBER 16 SUMMER, 1977 BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. Academy Schedules Fall Television Special Movies Go to War is the title of a forthcoming Academy-p roduce television special, scheduled to air this fall on ABC-TV. The two-hour documentary, which is the third special produced for television by the Academy, will depict the tragedy and drama of war as it was seen on the screen and will feature clips from dozens of motion pictures produced during or after World War II. BLACKS' CONTRIBUTION CITED - Donor Edgar Goff reviews materials in the new Hattie McDaniel According to Collection with Academy Librarian Mildred Simpson. Goff, grandnephew of the Oscar-w inning actress, Alan Landsburg, will serve as a special advisor to the Margaret Herrick library' S Black American Film History Collection. who will produce the show for the Black History Collection Established Academy, other The Academy's Margaret Herrick books, periodicals, clippings, pho­ segments will Library has established a Black tographs, letters and other materials treat the lighter American Film History Collection tracing the contributions of Blacks side of military and is launching an active quest for to the motion picture arts and life as seen in sciences. Alan Landsburg wartime comedies According to Librarian Mildred and will analyze the impact of films 50th Oscar Telecast Simpson, the important contribu­ dealing with various post-war tions of Blacks - whether as actors, themes. Slated for April 3 directors or film technicians - have "World War II was the last time never been recognized fully. The The 50th Annual Academy Awards our nation was united behind a war purpose of the Black American Film Presentation will take place on effort," says Landsburg. "Hollywood History Collection is to fill a void Monday, April 3,1978, in the that now exists in film scholarship explored that period, and our pro­ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the gram will show how those who and research. Los Angeles Music Center, it has The initial acquisition for the col­ participated in World War II felt been announced by Academy Pres­ lection is material related to the about it - and how the war was ident Howard W. Koch. life and career of actress Hattie portrayed by the filmmaking com­ The 50th Oscar Show, which wil·1 McDaniel, donated to the Academy munity." recognize outstanding achievement Foundation by researcher Edgar Landsburg, who has produced in motion picture production in Goff, McDaniel's grandnephew. He more than 20 television documen­ 1977, also will feature a salute to wit! serve as a special advisor to the ries, is currently researching Oscar and will be the culmination Library on matters related to the ture films produced during the of the Academy's 50th Anniversary new collection. 1940's, as well as newsreel footage celebration. More than 70 million Miss McDaniel, who appeared in persons are expected to watch the showing how Hollywood supported 74 films between 1932 and 1949, festivities, brdadcast live by ABC. the war on the home front. Continued on Page Four Margaret Herrick Library Donations Cinematographer Charles G. Clarke continues to add rare items to the Margaret Herrick Library through his gifts to the Academy Foundation. Clarke's latest contributions include 61 books, among them the 1910 first edition of F. H. Richardson's Motion Picture Handbook: a Guide for Man­ agers and Operators of Motion Picture Theatres. Also in Clarke's gift are over 200 letters from fi·lm luminaries, 1910- 1945, including a letter displaying AND THE STUDENT WINNERS ARE - Five aspiring filmmakers were flown to Hollywood to receive their the business acumen of seventeen­ trophies and cash awards in the Academy's Fourth Annual Student Film Awards. First row (left to right), Rob Williams, Western States Film Institute/Metropolitan State College, Denve~; Carol Dysinger, New York year-old Mary Pickford, who wrote University; and Fronk Binney, University of Texas at Austin. Second row, Paul Demeyer, California to Colonel Selig regarding stories Institute of the Arts; Don Honicky, Director of College Relations for AT&T, co-sponsor of the program; she submitted to his film company. T. Hee, Chairman of the Student Film Awards Executive Committee; and Philip Pura, Boston Un iversity. During this period Miss Pickford was under exclusive contract to Five Student Filmmakers Honored American Biograph. Plans are now being completed for showings on college campuses The Library's William N. Selig Col­ the distribution of a compilation throughout the country. The pur­ lection has benefitted again with the film featuring the five winning poses of these screenings are to addition of 26 film rental contracts entries in the Academy's Fourth An­ establish a dialog with students as dating from 1908, and 1,521 frames nual Student Film Awards competi­ well as to encourage interest in the tion. The winners were revealed at motion picture arts and sciences. presentation ceremonies held in May The winners, in their respective in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. categories, were: More than 500 Academy members DRAMATIC and guests attended the event at Achievement Award which students from Massachusetts, Sixteen Down, Carol L. Dys inger, 21, School of Film and Television, New York University. A New York, Texas, Colorado and sensitive 24-minute account of a girl's 16th birth­ California received Saul Bass­ day, celebrated in a broken home in the suburbs. designed trophies and cash awards DOCUMENTARY of up to $1,000. The winning films, Achievement Award which were screened as part of the The last of the little Breweries, Fronk H. Bin­ ney, 27, University of Texas at Austin. A 20- ceremony, were selected from 300 COPYRIGHT FRAME COLLECTION - This frame minute look at the legacy left by a German enlargement from the Selig Company's The Ad- eJltries submitted in this year,_' '''--'-c>.£JJLL-_ brewmc::!1iter who oved_to America and opeLa~ e-ntuI'"e-s- oN(ath1yn (1'l'14) is-ontl of--manybeing petition. a brewery in Shiner, Tex. preserved on safety film by the Margaret Herrick Prominent personalities wh_o Merit Award Library through a grant from the Notional Endow­ Guitar Craft, Rob Williams, 24, Western States ment for the Arts. The still, which shows actress served as presenters were director Film Ins1itute/ Metropolitan State College, Denver. Kathlyn Williams in the first successful serial Frank Capra, actor james Earl jones, An la-minute study on custom guitar builder Max produced on film, was mode by the filmmaker film editor Verna Fields, animator T. Krimmel and the craftsmanship and artistry that for copyright registration purposes. Hee, actress Ronee Blakley, producer go into his special hand-mode guitars. Steven N. Tisch and producer EXPERIMENTAL of film intended for use as copy­ Achievement Award Stephen Friedman. Walter Mirisch right registration for Selig films, ca. TRANSCENdance, Philip W. Pura, 24, Boston 1913. welcomed the guests on behalf of University. An a '/2 -minute artistic study of a the Academy and pointed out the dancer's leap that transcends from a simple move­ Master photographer and cinema­ ment to emotional experience, employing anima­ high quality of entries submitted tographer Karl Struss has added to a tion, rotoscoping, optical printing and other previous gift of his work by contrib­ this year. special effects. ANIMATION The American Telephone and uting original 8x10-inch negatives Achievement Award of portrait series of janet Gaynor, Telegraph Company, which co­ The Muse, Paul Demeyer, 24, California Insti­ sponsors the program with the Acad­ tute of the Arts, Valencia. A humorous three­ Frank Borzage, Lewis Milestone an minute look at inspirational writing, involving the William Cameron Menzies, alo emy and Academy Foundation, will struggle between the creator and his creative distribute prints of the film for free mind and what occurs in the end. Continued on Page Four Page Two Libraries Exchange Staff, Know/edge In a unique exchange program, librarians from the Academy's Mar­ garet Herrick Library and the British Film Institute traded jobs for three months this spring to enhance their knowledge of each other's facilities and thereby better serve the re­ searchers using both institutions. Bonnie Rothbart, assistant libra­ rian in the Margaret Herrick Library for the past seven years, swapped positions with Elizabeth Lesse, ACADEMY INTERN Donald MacDonald (left) confers with director John Hancock on Jaws II. Academy senior information assistant in BFI 's members interested in serving as intern sponsors may contact the Academy's Special Pro jects Office. Department of Information and ocum no. "It was very exciting working so Academy's Student Internship Program close to the film industry," remarked Betty about her work at the Acad­ Offers Students Professional Experience emy Library, where she helped answer hundreds of in-person and shooting and editing, to the release There is probably no better way for telephone queries and became of the film. The program's success aspiring filmmakers to gain profes­ familiar with the more than 11,700 sional knowledge of their craft than depends largely on the close work­ books, pamphlets and other items ing relationship established between by working on the actual production preserved in the library's extensive of a film. the intern and his or her sponsor, collection. For that reason, the Academy - as well as with the other profes­ "I am not used to picking up the in cooperation with the American sionals working on the production. phone and hearing the other person Film Institute - sponsors a Student "You can make as much of the say this is MGM or 20th Century­ Internship Program that has launch­ internship as you feel you are capa­ Fox. The closest I ever came before ed many advanced film students on ble," says Donald MacDonald, cur­ was an occasional call from an their careers in commercial motion rently interning with John Hancock American distributing company pictures.