To Create the American Film Institute as an Independent Agency: Hearings Before the Select Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 17021 ... October 7 and 8, 1974U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 189 pages |
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activities administration Advanced Film Studies AFI's agency American Film Institute archives areas art form art of film artists Arts Endowment Association bill Board of Trustees budget Center for Advanced Chairman Brademas Charlton Heston Cinema committee concern CONGRESS THE LIBRARY conservatory constituency critical Culkin cultural Daniel Department director Ed Emshwiller Federal Fellows field film and television film education film industry fiscal Ford Foundation Frank Daniel funding George Stevens Government grants Greystone Heston important independent filmmakers Institute's interest JOHN BRADEMAS Kennedy Center legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Mailgram mailgram to Chairman media studies Miss HANKS motion picture Museum National Council National Endowment needs operating organization present preservation problems production professional projects public media program questions QUIE regional represent SARASIN SCHNEIDER Select Subcommittee staff Stanford Research Institute statement teachers Terrence Malick Thank theater tion University Washington York
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Page 17 - Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature.
Page 63 - I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace, or a saving radiance in the sky.
Page 18 - Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established ; by the institution of a national university ; or by any other expedients, will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the legislature.
Page 3 - SEC. 5. (a) The board is authorized to adopt an official seal, which shall be judicially noticed, and to make such bylaws, rules, and regulations as it deems necessary for the administration of its functions under this Act, including among other matters bylaws, rules, and regulations relating to the acquisition, exhibition, and loan of works of art, the administration of its trust funds, and the organization and procedure of the board. The board may function notwithstanding vacancies...
Page 26 - America. —We will support a national opera company and a national ballet company. —We will create an American film institute, bringing together leading artists of the film industry, outstanding educators, and young men and women who wish to pursue the twentieth century art form as their life's work.
Page 3 - Office in accordance with the principles and procedures applicable to commercial corporate transactions and under such rules and regulations as may 'be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States.
Page 109 - Adaptive, problem-solving, temporary systems of diverse specialists, linked together by coordinating and task-evaluating executive specialists in an organic flux— this is the organization form that will gradually replace bureaucracy as we know it.
Page 115 - This endeavor is possible on three levels, since the rules of kinship and marriage serve to insure the circulation of women between groups, just as economic rules serve to insure the circulation of goods and services, and linguistic rules the circulation of messages.
Page 171 - ... architecture and allied fields, painting, sculpture, photography, graphic and craft arts, industrial design, costume and fashion design, motion pictures, television, radio, tape and sound recording, the arts related to the presentation, performance, execution, and exhibition of such major art forms, and the study and application of the arts to the human environment.
Page 115 - ... and marriage serve to insure the circulation of women between groups, just as economic rules serve to insure the circulation of goods and services, and linguistic rules the circulation of messages. These three forms of communication are also forms of exchange which are obviously interrelated (because marriage relations are associated with economic prestations, and language comes into play at all levels). It is therefore legitimate to seek homologies between them and define the formal characteristics...