The Cine Technician (1953-1956)

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120 CINE TECHNICIAN August 1955 This and our cover still are from " Sir Arne's Treasure ", a new colour version of Stiller's masterpiece EDINBURGH PREVIEW THE dangers of writing about a Film Festival before it takes place are exceeded only by the difficulties of commenting on it afterwards. Projects and programmes have a habit of being upset and the tag about the best laid schemes has some currency in the country in which it was coined. What follows, therefore, must be read with the possibility of misadventure in mind. The Festival is being held at a crucial time for the cinema. The television audience grows steadily and while cinema attendances have dropped less than the pessimists expected, the tendency is there. One of the main factors in the arrest of the slide has been the success of CinemaScope which seems to have had the same effect on the queues outside the cinema as it has had on the screen inside. At the Festival in Edinburgh there will be an opportunity of seeing both the best work being done in television film-making and also the latest developments in CinemaScope. The B.B.C. have sent several of their documentaries, including John Piper and Tht Wallace Collection. Douglas Fair banks, who has produced a large number of television films in this country mainly for showing in the United States, has entered several in contrasting styles. Canada illustrates a method of producing cheaply sound-and-film records and there are interesting contributions from France, French Morocco, and the United States. I can imagine that these films will produce some BY FORSYTH HARDY lively discussion in a sphere of filmmaking where opinion is still fluid and malleable. There will be new experiences also in CinemaScope. Walt Disney has entered his first feature-length cartoon in the new dimension, Tht Lady mid the Tramp, and it will be interesting to see how he fills the wide screen. He is also showing one of his PEOPLE AND PLACES series, Switzerland, which has the most breath-taking vistas I have yet seen in any CinemaScope docu mentary. This film has done more than any other I have seen to convert me from a rather reluctant attitude towards CinemaScope. The inclusion of East of Eden is an appropriate gesture towards a remarkable film. Scotland will be represented among the CinemaScope films by The Lilt of the Kilt, in which Harold Bairn has memorably caught the beauties of the country's scenery and the rich colour of its ceremonial life. Has the cinema any other experiments to set against the appeal of television? I understand that the Festival may have a first sight of the long-awaited Invitation to tht Dance, if a print is available in time. Gene Kelly is one of cinema's men of Ideas and all that we have read about his film, including his decision to dispense with dialogue and his combination of real and cartoon figures, suggests interesting experiment. His technique offers a contrast to the classical tradition used in the U.S.S.R.'s Romeo mul Juliet, another of the Festival's feature films. The Edinburgh Festival has always kept a receptive eye open for films with an element of social