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The Board's Seventeenth Annual Conference was held at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York from November 14th to 16th, with "New Frontiers for American Movies" as its theme. […] On Thursday afternoon the delegates were guests of Walt Disney at the first public showing of his new film, Fantasia, at the Broadway Theatre. […] Among the guests at the Twenty-sixth Annual Luncheon, Saturday, were Helen Craig, Irina Baronova, Judge Jackson, Aaron Copland, Luise Rainer, Dorothy Petersen, Lewis Milestone, Hal Leroy, Victor Mature, Vyvyan Donner and Walt Disney. Mr. Disney, who insisted he couldn't make a speech though he proved, delightfully, that he could, had said that he would rather answer questions if they could be given to him in advance. Some of his answers — there was not time for all of them — are highly interesting. […]