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FILM & HISTORY NEWS IAMHIST NEWS The Historical Journal of Film Radio & Television, the new voice of IAMHIST, will make its appearance in March 1981 and, for those able to afford the annual $55 subscription fee, it will provide a valuable complement to Film & History. Scheduled for two issues per year, the Journal will deal with twentieth century mass media and communications on an interdisciplinary basis. It will offer reviews of films, books, and video material and also survey developments in teaching social sciences via film and broadcast materials. Editor Ken Short of Westminster College, Oxford, is seeking contributions now. See full-page advertisement and order form in this issue. AHA CONVENTION 1979 The Historians Film Committee, in association with the Circulating Film Program ofthe Museum ofModem Art, sponsored a highly successful all-day screening at the AHA annual convention in New York City in December. The theme ofthe program was "Films of Persuasion of World War II" and it included war material (e.g., Japanese animated propaganda shorts) as well as some familiar documentary film. Also participating were representatives of the Library of Congress, and the National Film Archive of Canada, both ofwhom brought film material. Several hundred people saw all or part of the 10 hours of film, and many stayed for the panel discussion which concluded the day's events. SALISBURY CONFERENCE: A REMINDER Remember! The HFC is a co-sponsor ofthe Salisbury Conference on Literature History and Film which will take place on the campus of Salisbury State College in Salisbury, Maryland in June. For more specific information see the ads run in our Fall and Winter issues or write Film & History. FIAF INDEX This is an important year for the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) as we are publishing the International Index to Film Periodicals ourselves for the first time. The Index starts as a card subscription service, and the annual volume has appeared since 1972. This has sold well, nearly 1,000 copies each year, but this has still not been profitable enough for our past publishers (Bowker, Macmillan)! Thus FIAF took over the publication of the 1978 volume at short notice. In this our first year we have: - maintained the quality, size and scope ofthe Index - increased the number ofperiodicals included in the Index 13 - reduced the price to L30. - reintroduced a Standing Order facility at the reduced price of L25 In the future we are confident we can improve the publication date and expect to publish the 1979 International Index to Film Periodicals by August 1980. FIAF is convinced ofthe Index's value as a unique film reference tool and is confident that libraries and archives all over the world will continue to buy it. We do need your help to bring to everyone's attention the fact that we are now publishing the Index, and that all orders from 1 972 onwards should be sent to the London office ofFIAF where they will be serviced quickly. FIAF 90-94 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WIV 7DH, England 01-734 4221. Frances Thorpe' Editor ARMY ARCHIVE SEEKS MATERIALS The Military History Institute's Audio Visual Archives (Carlisle Barracks, PA 3 701 3) was established in September 1 977. The Audio Visual Archives is the Army's repository for unofficial, historically significant audio visual materials pertaining to the military experience ofthe United States. The primary missions are to preserve audio visual materials and to make these sources of information available for research by civilian and military scholars; also to the general public. If you would like to donate audio visual materials or to gain information concerning our holdings, you can contact SSG Thomas M. Allen, Acting Chief, Audio Visual Archives by writing to the above address or calling (717) 245-3601. FILM REVIEW Counterpoint: The U-2 Story (1973) Color, 58 minutes. The netherworld of the secret agent is invariably an irresistible theme for moviemakers. Films have usually endowed that uncertain and lonely existence with the glamour ofindependence, the intrigue ofthe double life, above all, with the exhilaration ofadventure. Peter Davis, in his 1973 documentary on the U-2 spy incident in 1960, explores instead the ruined lives ofthe two key agents, the American Francis...

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