{"id":4725,"title":"New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1969-70","kind":"biblio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1969-70-funding-film-and-media","version":"ca676d5f1e1ff9b5dbb74dd9ee469ada84272c5fc5dc501e918216ded055c13b","modified":"2026-09-13T21:52:08.1962976+00:00","credits":[{"role":"Author","name":"New York State Council on the Arts"}],"authorKeys":["New York State Council on the Arts"],"subjects":["Groups"],"metadata":[{"label":"Type","value":"Annual Report","url":null},{"label":"ETC archive","value":"ETC1182","url":null},{"label":"Group dates","value":"1960 -","url":null},{"label":"Group location","value":"New York City","url":null},{"label":"Group","value":"New York State Council on the Arts","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1969-70: Funding for Film and Media.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1969-70-funding-film-and-media.","publication":"New York State Council on the Arts. 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Photo: Kingsley Fairbridge Ed Emshwiller at filmmakers conference for elementary and high school teachers at Huntington, LI. Photo: Andree L. Abecassis Aldo Tambellini works with elementary school students at a television studio. Photo: WNYE-TV Channel 25 \u201CGiving out old methods of information in this new media does not give us the possibility to discover its basic potential. We must consider that TV is audiovisual information at the speed of light. It is a light-sound instrument able to freely create and improvise its own forms. The immediacy of its audiovisual information makes possible spontaneous expression.\u201D High school students screen their own films in Yorktown. Photo: Vincent Clarkin \u201CWe got things done fast because we wanted to see the results, not because some teacher said we ought to do it fast. Since we were trusted to take equipment out of the building whenever we needed to, I think we were more careful of it, because we cared what happened to it. We were allowed to experiment with the cameras, trying different effects, different ways of filming things\u2026\u201D \u201CI learned more about composition \u2013 written, oral and visual \u2013 than I learned in my two past years of High School English.\u201D \u201CFor anyone even vaguely interested in film-making this course was a dreamer\u2019s dream.\u201D Elaine Summers\u2019 Electric Kinetic Gymnasium at C.W. Post College on Long Island. \u201CThe plan is to immerse the walls in colliding superimposed images, intensifying the experience of movement as it occurs in athletics. There will be multitape bombardment, strobe light, and live music, and twenty-four projectors will be used to dissolve the gym.\u201D Young Filmmakers. The Film Club on Rivington Street on location. The Young Filmmakers Foundation, which has guided the Film Club program, is one of three organizations chosen by the Council for pilot work in financial assistance. \u201CThough public interest in the arts has increased markedly, the base of financial support has not broadened significantly. Because costs for labor and materials have risen, the gap between expenditures and income has widened. The new money needed to make up this difference has not been forthcoming, either in private contributions or government subsidy.\u201D \u2013 Howard Taubman, The New York Times. \u201CA climate of anticipation \u2013 of more financial resources, of a more normal place in the economy, of wider public acceptance \u2013 has been engendered, and this climate on the one hand had made the search for funds more desperate and on the other has led the managers of artistic enterprises into unattainable plans for development.\u201D \u2013 W. McNeil Lowry Elaine Summers\u0027 Electric Kinetic Gymnasium at C.W. Post College on Long Island. \u0022The plan is to immerse the walls in colliding superimposed images, intensifying the experience of movement as it occurs in athletics. There will be multitape bombardment, strobe light, and live music, and twenty-four projectrs will be used to dissolve the gym.\u0022 Young filmmakers at Albany South End workshop, sponsored by Upper Hudson Library Federation. Photo: High school students screen their own films in Yorktown. Photo: Vincent Clarkin \u0022We got things done fast because we wanted to see the results, not because some teacher said we ought to do it fast. Since we were trusted to take equipment out of the building whenever we needed to, I think we were more careful of it, because we cared what happened to it. We were allowed to experiment with the cameras, trying different effects, different ways of filming things\u2026\u0022 \u0022I learned more about composition \u2013 written, oral and visual \u2013 than I learned in my two past years of High School English.\u0022 \u0022For anyone even vaguely interested in film-making this course was a dreamer\u0027s dream.\u0022 Ed Emshwiller at filmmakers conference for elementary and high school teachers at Huntington, LI. Photo: Aldo Tambellini works with elementary school students at a television studio. Photo: Young Filmmakers. The Film Club on Rivington Street on location. The Young Filmmakers Foundation, which has guided the Film Club program is one of three organizations chosen by the Council for pilot work in financial assistance. \u0022Though public interest in the arts has increased markedly, the base of financial support has not broadened significantly. Because costs for labor and materials have risen, the gap between expenditures and income has widened. The new money needed to make up this difference has not been forthcoming, either in private contributions, or government subsidy.\u0022 \u2013 Howard Taubman, The New York Times. \u0022A climate of anticipation \u2013 of more financial resources, of a more normal place in the economy, of wider public acceptance \u2013 has been engendered, and this climate on the one hand had made the search for funds more desperate and on the other has led the managers of artistic enterprises into unattainable plans for development.\u0022 \u2013 W. McNeil Lowry NYSCA Film Program Funding Funding for Film and Media by Other NYSCA Programs Film Program A shift of focus in the past year gave more prominence to Council aid to the making of films than in any of the Film Program\u0027s three previous years. While school and community requests for assistance that would expand opportunities for seeing good movies continued to receive high priority, a widening variety of filmmaking ventures was supported by Council grants. Such activities involved both young people and adults, and Council assistance ranged from a two-week residency for a film teacher at a Queens high school to continuing support for the year-round Channel of Soul film workshop at the Buffalo YWCA. In 1969-70 the Film Program also extended its area of activity to inspire students and adults to look more closely at television and to produce new images and sounds for the TV medium. Renewal of a substantial grant to the Young Filmakers Foundation (now directed by Lynne Hofer, Rodger Larson, and Jaime Barrios) enabled the Foundation to continue its administration of the Film Club on Rivington Street in New York\u0027s Lower East Side and to provide advisory services in support of new and established film workshops in communities throughout the State. The Foundation\u0027s work with teen-age filmmakers included the production of such interpretative materials as film study guides for schools and institutions, television programs on the Icenage film, and a book. Young Filmmakers, by Rodger Larson. The Foundation has also been instrumental in setting up a Youth Film Distribution Center to enable films made by young people to reach a wider audience. Films distributed by the Center have now been seen by audiences of all ages in all The End by Alfonso Sanchez, Jr.- has been screened at the Cannes Film Amsterdam. he is meeting with students and teachers to discuss the unique properties of television and with station personnel to challenge prevailing concepts of what constitutes \u0022proper\u0022 television. In each city students and station engineers will ultimately cooperate in the production of videotapes that conceivably-in their use of patterns, sounds, and images-may influence television in much the same way that underground films have affected ideas of what is \u0022acceptable\u0022 in the motion picture. Horace Mann School in the Bronx was also supported by the Council. In Tuckahoe, the Loft Film and Theatre Center of Bronxville sponsored a summer film workshop for young people that is continuing as a year-round storefront film studio. In Albany\u0027s South End, grammar school girls and boys as well as some teen-agers learned the fundamentals of filmmaking in a project sponsored by the Council and the Upper Hudson Library Federation. summer months of 1969. The Suffolk County Regional Center sponsored workshops in film for teachers, school administrators, and curriculum specialists in which the opportunity to meet with filmmakers was a primary consideration. The Council also aided a second in-service course for teachers sponsored by the Rochester Area English Council, and has helped an ambitious film festival including appearances by filmmakers and film critics at Niagara University. Burnt Hills High School in Saratoga County. Here, on each of six evenings, 350 students and 350 adults gathered to look at movies and talk about them afterward. In 1969-70 the program has been expanded to nine evenings. Similar series supported by the Council were sponsored in other parts of the State by the Columbia County Council on the Arts, the Bay Area Friends of the Fine Arts in Bayport, L.I., the Hoosick Falls Central School District, Peekskill City School District, Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts and the Konan Center in Lockport. In general, grants to schools and colleges to increase the number of films shown in film courses and to help toward appearances by film specialists showed a growth over previous years. At New York City\u0027s Phoenix House, a rehabilitative center for narcotics addicts, a series of films was followed by discussions with film critic Susan Rice. A likely outgrowth would be a filmmaking course in the center\u0027s arts program. New York City. The premise--which the exuberant reactions of the audiences supported-was that older action films like The Adventures of Robin Hood, Broken Arrow, and The Day the Earth Stood Still are more appealing and engaging to children than many of the mechanical million-dollar studio productions of today. Whether film companies can be induced to re-release such older films commercially so that they can be seen by new audiences of school-age children remains to be seen. Peter Bradley Four-year comparison of the Film Program\u0027s aid to community film series, film courses, and film speakers\u0027 appearances Council Support Local Support Sponsors 1969-70 * $ 20,000 $ 47,200 71 1968-69 ** 17,100 32,700 62 1967-68 11,600 21,840 32 1966-68 8,600 8,000 5 **Revised after the previous annual report. Grants for film rentals to schools and colleges in 1969 Parenthetical numbers refer to multiple grants. An asterisk (*) indicates a grant supported by 1968-69 funds. Community Alfred Alfred University Annandale-on-Hudson Bard College Bronx Horace Mann School Brooklyn Brooklyn College of Ihe City University of New York (2)*, Grover Cleveland High School Burnt Hills Hills-Ballston Lake High School CanandaiguaCanandaigua Academy Cooperstown New York State Historical Association EllenvilleEllenville High School Great NeckNorth Shore Community Arts Center Hempstead Hofstra University Lockport Kenan Center Long Beach Long Beach High School New Rochelle New York CityElizabeth Irwin High School Ossining Ossining High School PatchoguePatchogue-Medford High School* Peekskill Peekskill High School Scarsdale Scarsdale High School* SparkillSt. Thomas Aquinas College* Stone RidgeUlster County Community College Yorktown Heights Yorktown High School* Speakers\u0027 appearances arranged by the Film Program in 1969. Parenthetical numbers refer to multiple appearances. An asterisk (*) indicates a grant supported by 1968-69 funds. Community Annandale-on-Hudson Briarcliff Manor Brightwaters Canandaigua Ellenville Farmingdale Garden CityCarson Davidson, Gordon Hitchens, Sidney Meyers Great Neck Guilderland Highland Falls HuntingtonRodger Larson, Frederick Wiseman New York City Carson Davidson*, Martin Dworkin (2), Rodger Larson*,A. D. Malmfelt, Adrienne Mancia, William Sloan Niagara Falls Rochester Smithtown Community Sponsor Alfred Alfred University Annandale-on-Hudson Bard College Bronx Horace Mann School Brooklyn Brooklyn College of Ihe City University of New York (2)*, Crover Cleveland High School Burnt Hills Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School Canandaigua Canandaigua Academy Cooperstown New York State Historical Association Elenville Ellenville High School Great Neck North Shore Community Arts Center Hempstead Hofstra University Lockport Kenan Center Long Beach ","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":14831,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}