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V/esteplatte . Guns and car.eras both were operated with Teutonic thoroughness to warn the world what a corner of a Blitzkrieg; looks like. These are the test action saots of the war to date and the most boomsranging propaganda » D-ibious propaganda too was the British sequence showing the testing of a fifteen inch gmn. "Bang goes £2000", says the coiorientator , and the audience gives up hope of ever paying for the war. Ma^lor congratulations must bo reserved for ourselves in the audience we are still alive to complain that this is the screen's dullest war.
A FEW MOUTHS AOO STUART LEGG TOOiv UP A GOVEHmiEi\TT POST IN Canada to handle Canadian films. Since then John Grierson has been appointed Governnexnt Film Commissioner to administrate the recent Films Act. ' Raymond Spottiswood, author of Th_e__Gra_mmar of the Film has gone up fromx Hollyvy/ood and Evelyn Spice has joined the ijlilt. Production is beixig mapped out and some film.s have been finished, including Legg's "The Case of Charlie Gordon" which has been included in The Museum of iuodern Art Filmi Library shows in ]ievj York.
SUBTLRRAi'lEAXl MOVEIvEIITS IN HOLLT^/OOD my ERUPT INTO A FIRSTclass public issue. About a. year ago John Steinbeck's TIES GR.4Pi:,S OF V/RATH, was hailed by all as "the great American novel". It was the story of the hardships of the dispossessed MidV/estern farmers. It was a great success in democracy-conscious America but as "the pgreat American novel" its style and beauty put it beyond polemics. Radical and Republican, banker and farmer, rich and poor, bowed before Art. Darryl Zanuck and 20th Century Foz bought the film rights. Henry Fonda plays lead and John Steinbeck himself blesses the scenario. But these two good augurs, and the thought of the 250,000,000 weekly cinema audiences (which is a pretty powerful lot of people .compared wi. th the odd millions who read even a best seller), have been too much for Associated Farmers, the laissez fa ire pressure group. They have raised /il00,000 to prevent tne film being made or shown.
THE MUSEUIv-I OF MODERN ART FILIvI LIER.flRY, FEW YORK, H-^^S NOT/ -/ launched its programme series of THE NON-FICTION FIB/I: FROM TTNTN-A Tx^RoTy^Djl^^ pliIIHiTTFHFEn5~^'inTTI?rr~br~,
the Uniued Si:ates in 193 7-"3S7 There are 12 prograimr.es in all, ranging _ from Flaherty's NANOOK to NORTH SEA and the Amxerican THE CITY, giving a comprehensive survey of the development of doc-jmcntary. Richard Griffith supplied an authoritative prograi,ime note.