The Cine Technician (1943 - 1945)

July — August, 1943 THE CINE-TECHNICIAN 95 Processing : LAC. T. H. Chamberlain, LAC. J. L. Bishop. POLISH DETACHMENT In charge of production : F/Lt. ,H. Sarnicki. C. : F/O. Z. Perzanowski, Sgt. W. Kunicki, Sgt. J. Pryzybycien. ST. : P/O. J. Bielec, F/Sgt. P. Pszczolkowski. OVERSEAS DETACHMENT MEDITERRANEAN In charge of production : S/Ldr. A. R. Taylor, F/Lt. G. H. Brown, F/Lt. W. E. Wilbur, F/Lt. J. Clayton, F/O. W. E. Sheridan, P/O. J. Wright, Sgt. Sayer, Sgt. Kettlewell, Sgt. A. E. White, Sgt. H. Gillam, Sgt. R. Shears, Sgt. R. Cavender, Sgt. A. Dinsdale, Sgt. L. Thompson. INDIAN DETACHMENT In charge of production : S/Ldr. J. A. WUloughby. ROYAL NAVAL FILM SECTION Officer-in-charge: Cdr. G. V. A. Phelips, R.N. P. (in charge of production) : Lieut. A. C. Izod, R.N.V.R. D, : Lieut. J. P. Carstairs, R.N.V.R. LC. : Lieut. G. P. Dines, R.N.V.R. C. : Ldg. Photographer M. Curtis. Ldg. Photographer H. R. Thompson. Ldg. Photographer P. Beeson. Asst. C. : Ldg. Photographer J. Welsh. Ldg. Photographer E. Orton. Ldg. Photographer H. Smith. SS. : Lieut. C. L. Mounteney, R.N.V.R. Asst. R. : J. Allen, Esq. SC: Ldg. Photographer A. T Stafford. B. : Photographer R. E. Stafford. Proj. : Ldg. Photographer A. Carey. SE. : 3rd Officer H. Wilkinson, W.R.N.S. E. : Photographer A. Michelin. Cutters : Photographer J. E. Mendoza. Photographer A. J. Skene. Asst. Cutters : WRN B. Campbell. Ldg. WRN J. Cooper. PM. : Warrant Photographer E. G. Robins. Asst. P.M. : Ldg. WRN M. Hickman. Con. : WRN K. Hill. Asst. D. : A/B H. Munro. O/S J. Williams. Library : Ldg. Photographer S. Hayward . WRN C. Schofield. A. : Lieut. I. Hassall, R.N.V.R. Key Animation Artists : Ldg. Photographer K. Hardy. Ldg. Photographer R. Wansborough. Artists : Ldg. Photographer J. Pilkington. Ldg. Photographer O. Brab bins. Ldg. Photographer E. Blun dell. Ldg. Photographer H. Mul cock. Ldg. WRN C. Wright. Ldg. Photographer A. Robertson. Photographer J. Ewbank. Draughtsman : A. Bryant, Esq. Animation Camera : W. Traylor, Esq. Photographer J. Smallwood. Scripts (films) : Sub. Lieut. John Argyle, R.N.V.R. Sub. Lieut. BakerSmith, R.N.V.R. {instructional "stills" and films) Lieut. D. G. Leslie, R.N.V.R. Lieut. C. A. P. Trippe, R.M. Lieut. M. Law, R.N.V.R. Lieut. J. Aspinall, R.N.V.R. Sub. Lieut. Hicks, R.N.V.R. Ldg. Photographer A. Hyman. Correction to previous issue: Reggie Back was shown as Supervising Editor on " One Pair of Feet." This is incorrect. Fred Wilson was responsible for the Editing. NEW BOOKS REVIEWED American Labour, by Ernest Davies. George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 2/-. To cover the story of the American Trade Union Movement in a hundred pages is impossible. Ernest Davies contents himself with sketching the outline of its growth and development. If the book is considered merely as an introduction to the subject, it achieves that excellent purpose. As Harold Laski points out in the preface, Mr. Davies' subject " must be seen in action to be intelligible, and requires a pretty detailed knowledge of American life and history before it yields its inner secrets." We know all too little about the American Trade Union Movement, and I hope this book will lead to further study and more publications on the subject. As far as our own industry is concerned, it is just as essential for film technicians to understand and know about the American Trade Union Movement if they are to have close co-operation with their American colleagues as it is for the latter to be acquainted with A.C.T. if they are to learn about British film technicians and the British Film Industry. I understand that even now there are moves in Hollywood for the camera locals to break away from the I.A.T.S.E. and link up with the C.I.O. The differences between these bodies and a greater understanding of the policy of the Bailway Unions and the John L. Lewis Miners Union, which are outside both these main groups, is all the more easily understood by reading Ernest Davies' book. G.H.E. Honest Injun, by John Paddv Carstairs. Hurst and Blackett. 12/6. For those who want to hear about all the people Carstairs has met and all the places he's been to. I guess there's an average of fifteen names to a page, some of them arbitrarily dragged in — Botha and Brunei, for example, are mentioned because they once both appeared in the same course of lectures as Carstairs. There are inexcusable blunders. Bernard Knowles is credited with the lighting of Young Mr. Pitt: Sybil Thorndike is misspelt ; as is Beginald Baker (though from the consistency of this spelling maybe Carstairs meant In fact the whole book's thick with rapid and careless writing. The only chapters I found of real interest were those devoted to early experiences in Hollywood, when he puts over atmosphere and people well. But descriptions of sunrise in the Pacific and "the artist's paradise of Ceylon . . . . " ! Honest Injun. Paddy, they're just boring. S.C.