The avant-garde film is defined, its audience and uses are discussed, and a listing of films and film-makers for a basic public library collection is provided. (MBR)

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Discusses T. S. Elliot's essay, "The Three Voices of Poetry" which conceptualizes the position taken by the poet or creator. Suggests that an examination of documentary film, within the three voices concept, expands the critical framework of the film genre. (MH)

Discusses the dynamics of the Bantu Kinema Educational Experiment as a small group filmmaking process and examines the documentary ideal of the subject-generated film or videotape. (MH)

Asserts that much insight may be gained from watching films about the lives of famous individuals; a filmography lists and annotates such treatments of Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and others. (KS)

Discusses basic film story types which concern adolescents: delinquency or peer group, school life, sexual awakening, family life, sport and/or animals, and anguished adolescents. Critical criteria for judging films are also considered, including style and statement, images and issues, and form and content. Fifteen sources and recommended films…

Preproduction filmmaking for a college or university begins when the institution first discusses the idea. The process continues with developing ideas, forming a committee, focusing on the film's major points, doing research, interviewing, writing a script, and scheduling interview subjects and scenes that need to be shot. (MLW)

A listing of over 350 producers/distributors of video-format programming, arranged under five major headings: Business/Industry; Entertainment & Leisure; Coping: Contemporary Affairs; Medicine & Health Care; and Schools & College Instruction.

Discusses the elements of form and dissolution, the discrepancies between meaning and manner, in Visconti's film, "Death in Venice." (TO)

The author describes his experiences in Hollywood while his book, an autobiographical account of his experience teaching in a southern school, was being filmed there. (JA)

Findings of this project indicate that drug education films have the desired effect and they are not necessarily desirable because their appeal is emotional rather than fact giving. (Author)

Besides saving valuable teaching time by eliminating repetitive instruction, film reaches students who are not necessarily oriented toward either textbook or lecture learning, and need to be shown processes that are difficult to explain verbally. (Author)