Documentary News Letter (1944-1945)

DOCUMENTARY NEWS LETTER 11 FILMS REVIEWED A Soldier Comes Home. M.O.I. , Gryphon. 15 mins. Battle for Beauty. M.O.T., 18 mins. Birthday. M.O.I., Data. 20 mins. • Burma Victory. A.F.U. 65 mins. Chemists at Work. May and Baker, Verity. 18 mins. Chinese in Britain. M.O.I., Strand. 11 mins. Diary for Timothy. M.O.I., Crown. 45 mins. Farmer's Boy. Brit. Council, Green Park. 15 mins. Father and Son. M.O.I. , Crown. 15 mins. Fenlands. M.O.I., Green Park. 19 mins. Handling Ships. Admiralty, Halas Batchelor. 60 mins. Homes for the People. Odhams, Basic. 23 mins. How a Motor Car Engine Works. Ford, Verity. 20 mins. Journey Together. M.O.I., R.A.F. F.U. 95 mins. Land of Promise. Films of Fact. 60 mins. Let's See. Brit. Council, Merton Park. 18 mins. Make Fruitful the Land. Brit. Council, Green Park. 17 mins. Palestine Problem. M.O.T. 18 mins. Papworth Village Settlement. Brit. Council, World Wide. 20 min.s. Personnel Selection. M.O.I. , Shell F.U. 63 mins. Proud City. M.O.I., Green Park. 25 mins. Song of the People. C.W.S., Horizon. 30 mins. Steam. Babcock & Wilcox, Pub. Films. 55 mins. Steel. Brit. Council, Merton Park. 35 mins. The Plan and the People. MO. I., Realist. 19 mins. The True Glory. M.O.I, and O.W.I. 85 mins. Today and Tomorrow. M.O.I.. World Wide. 40 mins. West Riding. Brit. Council. Green Park. 22 mins. Films For Children (continued from page 3) Board of Film Censors are automatically suitable for children. The Board does not appear to have either expert knowledge of, or expert advice on, child psychology. The constructive potentialities of the children's cinemas are immense. Given good film material, available in sufficient quantity, and intelligent and responsible managements, the clubs could eventually become a valuable auxiliary instrument in education. The need and urge for entertainment can, indeed must, go together with education. Obtrusive moralising is abhorred by children, whether in the form of films, slides, or "club promises". Many local managers would, I believe, share in the request for a speedy and far-reaching reform of the present state of affairs. Darlington Hall {continued from page 5) capacity of a firm, a research institute, or an education authority, all of whose demands will fall wholly within the 16 mm. category. The cost of maintaining such a unit, with a complete professional team, would be in the order of £5,000 a year. This cost can be met without difficulty by a combination of officially sponsored production and distribution, and of private commissions, and the professional team would ensure the necessary technical quality. The encouragement of a dozen such units might well be part of our — so far non-existent — national policy about the future of documentary and educational film. PRODUCERS OF MEDICAL FILMS FOR .Mothers Your Children s Eyes Your Children's Teeth Your Children's Ears Theatrical Audiences Penicillin General Scientific Audiences Plastic Surgery in Wartime Phoneticists Movements of the Tongue in Speech Doctors Penicillin (colour) Students Technique of Anaesthesia Series Signs and Stages of Anaesthesia Open Drop Ether Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen-Ether Anaesthesia The Carbon Dioxide Absorption Technique Endotracheal Anaesthesia Intravenous Anaesthesia (Part 1) Intravenous Anaesthesia (Part 2) Spinal Anaesthesia Respiratory and Cardiac Arrest Operative Shock Handling and Care of the Patient REALIST FILM UNIT 9 GREAT CHAPEL STREET, W.I JDilfllS Q? J^S? announce LAND OF PROMISE To open at the Academy Cinema, London, mid-March Cert "17" Length 7 reels Distribution— Film Traders Ltd. cast JOHN MILLS MILES MALLESDN MARJORIE RHODES FREDERICK ALLEN HERRERT LOMAS ELIZARETH L'OWELL HENRY HALLATT technical unit Associate Director: Francis Gysin. Script Team: Ara Calder Marshall, Miles Tomalin, Miles Malleson, Wolfgang Wilhelm. Camera Team: Harold Young, Peter Hennessy, Reg Wyer, Cyril Arapoff. Charts and Diagrams: Isotype Institute. Supervision: Peter Bradford. Music: William Alwyn. 25 Catherine Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2 Telephone TEMple Bar 5116-7-8