Prizes to film

Some 50 prizes won by Czechoslovak short films at international festivals last year indicate that Czechoslovakia is among the top producers in this field. Short film studios in Prague and Gottwaldov produced 675 short films in 1966, amounting in length to 100 feature films These include 52 documentaries, eight popular scientific programmes and 44 cartoons and puppet films.

This year the studios plan to shoot a film series on topical economic problems related to the new system of economic management, on the scientific-technical revolution, a number of cartoons about world literary personalities, a feuilleton on Vera Caslavska, the world champion in women's gymnastics, etc. A festival of short films was held in Karlovy Vary from March 11-16.