{"id":4727,"title":"New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1970-71","kind":"biblio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1970-71-funding-film-and-media","version":"5e501ccf4afa513c84b1e31fb9f96795cfba7c2919faeceacfc8d95ad723e7d7","modified":"2026-09-13T21:52:08.1964122+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":"ETC archive","value":"ETC1161","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 1970-71: Funding for Film and Media.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1970-71-funding-film-and-media.","publication":"New York State Council on the Arts. 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The four-hour extravaganza involved new and old sounds, sights and dancing. Large screens on three sides of the chapel displayed a series of images and designs, each of short duration and sometimes superimposed. Real and seemingly unreal sounds accompanied these visuals. Exotic dancers were scattered at various elevations, and their gyratory inventions were stimulated by ensembles of brass, woodwinds and percussion.\u201D \u2013 Harwood Simmons in the (Syracuse) Post-Standard. photo: Tobe J. Carey Elementary school filmmaker at The Community in Willow. \u201Csomething to look at\u2026something to create.\u201D Photo: Bernard Gotfryd. Albert Maysles, shown here with his brother in New York City, was an active participant in the Film Bureau\u2019s speaker program. \u201CControl\u2026 consists of letting it happen. It\u2019s like talking to someone you\u2019re in love with. You reach the point where you\u2019re just listening. It\u2019s as though you were paddling a canoe and then you just let it go on its own. Sort of guide it along but without the paddle.\u201D \u2013 Albert Maysles in Production Notes for \u201CSalesman.\u201D Photo: Carole Crawford. People\u2019s Video Theatre in Chinatown. \u201Cto reach out and open circuits of communication.\u201D This entry is derived from the 1970-71 New York State Council on the Arts Annual report. It contains images related to film and media, funding by the film and television program, and support of media by other programs. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1970-71 cover photo: Peter Moore Eric Salzman\u0027s Feedback: A Total Environment Presentation, produced at Syracuse University and taped by the Educational Television Council of Central New York. \u0022Eric Salzman\u0027s aim is a form of communication in which the recipient \u0027feeds back\u0027 what he experiences either overtly or subliminally in a total environment situation. The four-hour extravaganza involved new and old sounds, sights and dancing. Large screens on three sides of the chapel displayed a series of images and designs, each of short duration and sometimes superimposed. Real and seemingly unreal sounds accompanied these visuals. Exotic dancers were scattered at various elevations, and their gyratory inventions were stimulated by ensembles of brass, woodwinds and percussion.\u0022 \u2013 Harwood Simmons in the (Syracuse) Post-Standard. photo: Tobe J. Carey Elementary school filmmaker at The Community in Willow. \u0022something to look at\u2026something to create.\u0022 Photo: Bernard Gotfryd Albert Maysles, wshown here with his brother in New York City, was an active participant in the Film Bureau\u0027s speaker program. \u0022Control\u2026 consists of letting it happen. It\u0027s like talking to someone you\u0027re in love with. You reach the point where you\u0027re just listening. It\u0027s as though you were paddling a canoe and then you just let it go on on its own. Sort of guide it along but without the paddle.\u0022 \u2013 Albert Maysles in Production Notes for \u0022Salesman.\u0022 Photo: Carole Crawford People\u0027s Video Theatre in Chinatown. \u0022to reach out and open circuits of communication.\u0022 Peter Bradley - Film, TV/Media, Literature Program Barbara Haspiel - Film Program Film, TV/Media, Literature The dramatic expansion of Council support of film, television, and literary projects--the dollar amount has increased from $65,000 in 1969-70 to $1.5 million in 1970-71--is making it possible to reach audiences in numbers undreamed of in previous years. Since, unlike other forms of artistic expression, film, TV programs, videotapes, and published writing have a continuing life of their own, the ultimate number of spectators and participants benefiting from State support in this record budget year is incalculable. \u003C\u003E The widespread and still growing interest in filmmaking among young people continued to receive recognition from the Council in 1970-71 through grants to stabilize new film workshops and to continue programs at established filmmaking clubs. To expand audiences for films of all kinds, and to increase the number of locations where the full spectrum of the medium is displayed, the Council gave support to such diverse organizations as the Rochester International Film Festival, the Nassau Library System, and -- in New York City -- the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Millennium Film Workshop. In all regions of the State, the Council sought to spread the impact of its film grants by working through existing regional organizations, a good example being the grant to the Film Forum of Syracuse which is enabling twelve high schools to offer filmmaking courses that none was able to initiate alone. In 1970-71 the Council made its first direct grants to public television stations for cultural programming. Concurrently it made substantial efforts to insure that the tools contemporary television technology can offer for individual creative expression -- specifically the portable systems which can be operated by a single person - will be liberated from the control of the existing TV establishment. A half dozen grants to video artists affiliated with major cultural institutions enabled them to record aspects of contemporary culture and to make portable video available as a medium through which people throughout the State could express their personal concerns and aspirations--to put them, as it were, behind the TV screen rather than in front of it. \u003C\u003EA flourishing Council program in literature sprang into being this year. Funds for the already well established Poets and Writers Program were significantly increased to keep pace with its extraordinary success in encouraging appreciation of the work of contemporary writers. A major grant to the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines provided sorely needed support for the many New York State \u0022little\u0022 magazines that serve as an essential outlet for new or unknown literary talent, and enabled the Council to explore how such magazines might realize printing economies and achieve broader distribution. \u003C\u003E \u003C\u003E--Peter Bradley \u003C\u003EFilm Council support this year made film, both as something to look at and something to create, more accessible to New York State citizens than ever before. Public library systems in Chautauqua-Cattaraugus, Monroe, Nassau, and Onondaga Counties received grants to expand collections of 16mm films which circulate widely. With Council assistance, individual libraries in Newburgh and Mt. Vernon mounted film series. Support for filmmaking workshops was increased to include such varied sponsors as the Nineteenth Ward Community Association in Rochester, the Film Forum in Syracuse, the Upper Hudson Library Federation in Albany, The Community in Willow, and Hamilton-Madison House in New York City. To assist other organizations which have some resources for film teaching but lack equipment, the Council -- with guidance from the Young Filmaker\u0027s Foundation -- established a short-term loan pool of Super-8 and 16mm film equipment. Known as the Media Equipment Resource Center (MERC), the pool operates on the premise that if a film club gets off to a successful start through the use of borrowed equipment, its sponsor (usually a school, library, or community organization) will in turn acquire its own equipment, so that the MERC equipment can be used to start similar activities elsewhere. MERC is located in New York City and administered by Young Filmaker\u0027s Foundation. \u003C\u003E On other fronts, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which sponsors the internationally re nowned New York Film Festival, received help to present subsequent upstate film programs during the past year, and the youthful Rochester International Film Festival was assisted toward a second series of programs for spring 1972. Through its Film Bureau, which provides schools, libraries, and film societies with matching funds in amounts up to $300 for rental of films and for appearances by film speakers, the Council continued statewide educational activities to foster film appreciation. A detailed report on such assistance in 1970-71 follows the listing. -- Barbara Haspiel Film assistance in 1970-71 Bedford Public Schools, Mount Kisco. $825 for the salary of a teacher for a summer filmmaking workshop for high school students. Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Yorktown Heights. $1,200 for an instructor\u0027s salary and operation of a student filmmaking workshop. \u003C\u003E (Third year of support.) Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake PTA Council. $950 for film rentals for a community film series. (Third year of support.) \u003C\u003ECenter for Understanding Media, New York City. $29,200 for a series of experimental film programs for children and for statewide showings of films for young audiences in a portable structure. The Center\u0027s purpose is to develop discriminating au diences for all forms of communication. \u003C\u003EChautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System, Jamestown. $23,770 for expanding its 16mm film collection and for the salary of a film librarian. \u003C\u003E The Children\u0027s Art Carnival, New York City. $3,361 for a teacher\u0027s salary and equipment for a filmmaking workshop for inner-city children. The Carnival, which is sponsored by The Museum of Modern Art, serves public and private schools, mostly in Harlem , and has participated in Headstart and day care programs and contributed to the activities of many other inner-city community centers. Children\u0027s Center, New York City. $750 for operation of a filmmaking workshop for socially maladjusted and emotionally disturbed boys. City Center Cinematheque, New York City. $30,000 for ticket subsidy aimed at expanding the audience for repertory cinema. Columbia County Council on the Arts, Chatham. $184 for production of a community film series. (Second year of support.) The Community, A Free School, Willow. $1,700 for a teacher\u0027s salary, equipment rental, and film processing costs for a student filmmaking workshop on the elementary school level. Corning Glass Center. $750 matching funds for rental of the Civilisation film series for showing to a Southern Tier audience. Cultural Council Foundation, New York City. $15,000 for salaries and equipment rental for the Movies in the Parks program. Dance Films Association, New York City. $1,200 for preparation of a catalog of films on the dance, and to help support the Association\u0027s third annual conference. Educational Film Library Association, New York City. $17,000 for salaries and the publication of a critical bibliography of films on drugs and drug abuses. The Association catalogs, evaluates, and serves as a reference center for information about educational and other non-commercial short films. Film Forum, Syracuse. $10,000 for teachers\u0027 salaries and rental of equipment for cooperative filmmaking courses in twelve high schools. The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York City. $25,000 for production costs of the eighth New York Film Festival; $25,000 for increased use of film in the education program of thirty-nine up-state communities. (Second year of support.) Film Workshop of Westchester, White Plains.$3,500 for film stock, processing, and duplicating expenses for a filmmaking workshop for adults. Fordham University Film Study Institute, New York City. $1,510 for speakers\u0027 fees for a film study workshop for teachers. Friends of the Lakeview Library, Rockville Centre. $1,200 for film rentals for a film series sponsored by this private voluntary library serving a predominantly black community. Hamilton-Madison House, New York City. $2,500 for a teacher\u0027s salary and supplies for a teen-age filmmaking workshop. Henry Street Settlement, New York City. $20,000 for salaries of three teachers for a fil","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":47843,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}