{"id":4728,"title":"New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1971-72","kind":"biblio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1971-72-funding-film-and-media","version":"6677a177779aa7d82b107630618ea72188e469d068d47f28895629c99e166980","modified":"2026-09-13T21:52:08.19648+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":"ETC1185","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 1971-72: Funding for Film and Media.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1971-72-funding-film-and-media.","publication":"New York State Council on the Arts. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1971-72. 1972.","risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/4728.ris"},"links":[{"label":"Scanned document","url":"https://archive.org/details/ETC1185","relationship":"linked document; contents not retrieved","contentType":"application/pdf"},{"label":"https://arts.ny.gov/sites/default/files/Annual%20Report%201971%20-%2072.pdf","url":"https://arts.ny.gov/sites/default/files/Annual%20Report%201971%20-%2072.pdf","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"Film, TV/Media, Literature - Peter Bradley","url":"#Film_TVMedia_Literature","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":38098},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":758}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"This entry is derived from the 1971-72 New York State Council on the Arts Annual report. https://arts.ny.gov/sites/default/files/Annual%20Report%201971%20-%2072.pdf cover Electronic Arts Intermix festival at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City Teen-age participants in the New York Public Library\u2019s Video Workshop use equipment from the MediaEquipmentResourceCenter. Film, TV/Media, Literature In 1970-71 the much enlarged legislative appropriation for the Council allowed initial support for television, video, and media projects as well as increased assistance in connection with film showings, filmmaking, poetry, and literature. The number and kinds of such activities made possible by Council support continued to increase and diversify in 1971-72. In regard to film, it was a year when more people than perhaps ever before had opportunities to experience the medium\u0027s extraordinary variety through programming at centers that ranged from the Circle Film Forum and the Millennium Film Workshop to the Whitney Museum of American Art, and through organizations as varied as the Film Society of Lincoln Center, statewide public library systems, and the Plattsburgh Film Society. It was a year of unusually productive filmmaking achieved through the MediaEquipmentResourceCenter. It was a year when experimentation and exploration by independent video artists was freed from closed-circuit systems in out-of-the-way places and began to reach broad audiences by coaxial cable. The Council\u0027s activity as one of the few sources of aid for such research and development, and the growth of interest in TV\u0027s unexplored potential combined to increase requests for assistance far beyond its means, but commitment to independent television and public television continued in a substantial and significant manner. It was a year in which public New York State appearances and workshop participation by writers and poets more than doubled as did the audiences for them, and one in which especially strong Council support was given to the imaginative work of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative and the St. Mark\u0027s Church In-the-Bowery Poetry Project. Small circulation magazines again received aid from the Council\u0027s grant to the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines in 1971-72, rounding out a support program that affected both creative accomplishment in and broadened public acquaintance with the communication arts. - - Peter Bradley This entry is derived from the 1971-72 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. Film, TV/Media, Literature - Peter Bradley cover Electronic Arts Intermix festival at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City Teen-age participants in the New York Public Library\u0027s Video Workshop use equipment from the Media Equipment Resource Center. Film, TV/Media, Literature In 1970-71 the much enlarged legislative appropriation for the Council allowed initial support for television, video, and media projects as well as increased assistance in connection with film showings, filmmaking, poetry, and literature. The number and kinds of such activities made possible by Council support continued to increase and diversify in 1971-72. In regard to film, it was a year when more people than perhaps ever before had opportunities to experience the medium\u0027s extraordinary variety through programming at centers that ranged from the Circle Film Forum and the Millennium Film Workshop to the Whitney Museum of American Art, and through organizations as varied as the Film Society of Lincoln Center, statewide public library systems, and the Plattsburgh Film Society. It was a year of unusually productive filmmaking achieved through the Media Equipment Resource Center. It was a year when experimentation and exploration by independent video artists was freed from closed-circuit systems in out-of-the-way places and began to reach broad audiences by coaxial cable. The Council\u0027s activity as one of the few sources of aid for such research and development, and the growth of interest in TV\u0027s unexplored potential combined to increase requests for assistance far beyond its means, but commitment to independent television and public television continued in a substantial and significant manner. It was a year in which public New York State appearances and workshop participation by writers and poets more than doubled as did the audiences for them, and one in which especially strong Council support was given to the imaginative work of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative and the St. Mark\u0027s Church In-the-Bowery Poetry Project. Small circulation magazines again received aid from the Council\u0027s grant to the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines in 1971-72, rounding out a support program that affected both creative accomplishment in and broadened public acquaintance with the communication arts. - - Peter Bradley NYSCA 1971-72 Film Program Support * means that the organization received support from at least one other program at NYSCA. The organizations receiving media support which received help for a media-related project from another program are listed following the Media listing. The striking and sometimes startling diversity of our movies\u0027 past was made accessible to New Yorkers across the State in record magnitude this year as noncommercial film organizations sought to present examples of the best work done in the relatively brief (seventy-five-year) history of the medium--from early silent classics to the most recent films of contemporary artists. Recognizing the growth of audiences that are serious about movies, a few commercial movie houses also joined in this counter-thrust to prevalent practice and instituted repertory programming on the basis of lasting quality rather than immediate topicality. A variety of Council grants played a major part in this development, making possible among other things the Ninth New York Film Festival, the First International Festival of Women\u0027s Films, and the year-round programs of the Circle Film Forum. Throughout the State, library systems received grants to expand their collections of 16mm feature films, and three such systems shared their film collections to provide even greater diversity for their constituents. With encouragement from the Council-supported Greater Middletown Arts Council, the distinguished Bown Adams collection of silent films was projected for Middletown area audiences at the State Hospital and for senior citizens and high school students. In western New York, film enthusiasts had opportunities to see movies and hear filmmakers through a Council grant to Media Study, Inc. of Buffalo, and eminent teachers including Bruce Baillie, Stan Brakhage, Ed Emshwiller, Richard Leacock, and Stan VanDerBeek participated in \u0022image making\u0022 workshops sponsored by the same group. In Rochester the International Film Festival--a critical success but in financial difficulty after its first year--was enabled to sustain activity. At the same time, the Council continued support for the creation of films by grants to film workshops and by making film equipment available to community groups and institutions on free short term loan. Administered by the Young Filmakers\u0027 Foundation, the loan program (known as MERC--the Media Equipment Resource Center) has benefited more than a hundred organizations and individual filmmakers in the first nine months of its existence. With Council support, the Young Filmaker\u0027s Foundation continued to expand its varied media programs for young people, which have been models for organizations throughout the nation. Through the Film Speakers Bureau, which provides schools, libraries, and film societies with matching funds up to $300 for rental of films and up to $150 for appearances by film speakers, the Council continued statewide support of educational activities to foster film appreciation. The Bureau\u0027s purview was expanded this year to include fees for artists working in video to demonstrate and speak about their work. Rental of videotapes also received partial support. A detailed report on Film Speakers Bureau activity follows the listing of film assistance. - - Barbara Haspiel Film assistance in 1971-72 The American Museum of Natural History, New York City. $25,000 for the development of a multiple-screen film by Francis Thompson on the worldwide environmental crisis.* Bay Area Friends of the Fine Arts. Bayport. $300 for rental fees for an international film series.* Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association (BACA). $1,830 for film stock and processing for teenage workshops in Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst.* Center for Understanding Media, New York City. $13,600 for an expanded program of short films shown at the Children\u0027s Film Theater to study child reactions, and for a study of films being produced in secondary schools in New York State. Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System, Jamestown. $17,951 for the salary of a film librarian, and for the expansion of a film rental program. The Children\u0027s Art Carnival, New York City. $1,569 for teachers\u0027 salaries and operating costs of a young people\u0027s workshop in animation and still photography. The Carnival is sponsored by The Museum of Modern Art.* Columbia County Council on the Arts, Chatham. $300 for the continuation of a community film series.* The Community, A Free School, Willow. $3,000 for a teacher\u0027s salary, materials, and equipment rental for a children\u0027s film and video workshop.* Council on the Arts for Clinton-Essex Counties, Plattsburgh. $300 for rental of feature-length and short films for the Plattsburgh Film Society.* Earlville Opera House. $6,525 for the salary of a director and operating costs of a film and video workshop for teen-agers, adults, and senior citizens.* George Eastman House, Rochester. $4,750 for a study and symposium on the effect of sound on the development of the film.* Educational Film Library Association, New York City. $15,000 for the expansion of the statewide services of their film information center. Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. $700 for rentals for a film series and appearances by filmmakers.* The Film Making Project, Babylon. $1,000 for the expansion of a Super-8 workshop for children, teenagers, and adults. The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York City. $38,500 lor production expenses for the ninth New York Film Festival and the 1971 season of Movies in the Park. Film Speakers Bureau, New York City. $35,000 for a program providing matching funds for rental of films and videotapes and fees for lectures on video, films, and filmmaking presented at libraries, museums, and other community centers throughout the State. Friends of the Lakeview Library, Rockville Centre. $325 for film rentals.* Greater Middletown Arts Council. $1,600 for operating costs of a festival of classic silent films and a mobile film series presented at the Middletown State Hospital, the Area Nursing Home, and the Senior Citizen Center.* The Solomon R. Ciiggenheim Museum, New York City. $2,000 for the salary of a curator to plan a three-week film retrospective and prepare an illustrated catalog of the program.* Hamilton-Madison House, New York City. $2,500 for the continuation of a filmmaking workshop for young people.* Henry Street Settlement, New York City. $14,450 for the salaries of a director and assistant director of filmmaking workshops for young children and teenagers.* Hudson River Museum at Yonfeers. $7,000 for operating costs for the continuation of a filmmaking workshop for inner city teenagers.* Institute of New Cinema Artists, New York City. $10,000 for administrative costs and the salary of a director of an apprenticeship program developed in cooperation with Third World Cinema Productions. International Film Seminar, New York City. $1,050 for scholarships for students and teachers attending the annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. 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