Kinematograph year book (1944)

Documentary Films. 11 at all to stop our producers making a picture comparable to either of these, for most of the stuff was available over here. It is a brilliant example of the manner in which enemy propaganda can be turned against the enemy, and a sample of the ingenuity that our producers must cultivate if they hope to keep their top position in the documentary world. The M. of I. has done a tremendous amount to encourage this type of work, but this same Ministry has been largely responsible for the lack of initiative now becoming apparent among our shorts producers. No doubt the M. of I. has too many enthusiastic amateurs busy on the job and their sense of public requirements cannot be better illustrated than by the groan that goes up from the audience when " The M. of I. presents . . . "is flashed upon the screen. Because thay know that the M. of I. has the final say in the subject, presentation and even choice of staff, because they know that their films, when made for the Ministry, get by irrespective of merit, many of our producers are beginning not to worry at a time when that is just what they should be starting to do. M.of I. FILMS ISSUED DURING 1943. Reproduced by Courtesy of the Ministry of Information. THEATRICAL AND NON-THEATRICAL RELEASES Abbreviations : — T — Mainly Theatrical. NT — Mainly Non-Theatrical. I — Mainly Instructional. AS— Allied Service. W — Withdrawn. 0 — Despatched Overseas. 00— Primarily for Overseas Use. 000 — Overseas Use Only. Lengths are recorded in feet of ^ymm. gauge, or in minutes of i6-mm. gauge. * Indicates a five-minute film. Title. Autumn On the Farm (TO) Before the Raid (TO) ... *Biter Bit, The (T) Boiler House Practice (I) Breathing Space (OO) ... Britain Beats the Clock (OOO) Browned Off (TO) Butterfly Bomb (NT) ... "Cameramen at War (T) Canteen Command (OOO) Catering (I) Cereal Seed Disinfection! I ) China (NTO) Cine. Sports Magazine, Nos. 3—i2 (OOO) Clean Milk (10) Close Quarters (TO) Clyde Built (NTO) Coalminer (O) Come Again (OOO) Commissioning a Battleship (W) Common Cause (NTO) ... Convoy to Malta ♦Crown of the Year (TO) Danger Area (NTO) Debris Clearance (10) ... Debris Tunnelling (10) ... Defeat Tuberculosis (NTO) Dig For Victory (2) (OOO) Doing Without (OOO) ... Factory Fire Guard (10)... Fire Guard Plan (10) ... Fires Were Started (TO) First Aid On the Spot (10) Floating Men (OOO) ... Garden Friends and Foes (I) Hello, West Indies (000) Prod. Unit. Producer. Director. Length. Ft. Green Park R. Keene 1,300 Crown I. Dalrymple ... J.Weiss 3,H3 Coombe Sir A. Korda ... 1,290 C.W.S G. Wynn 2,374 Strand ... ' ... A. Shaw 2,845 Paramount T. Cummins ... 1,464 Strand D. Taylor C. Delatour ... 3,359 Verity L. Birt 442 Realist Len Lye i,3i3 Spectator ... M. Hankinson Gunn 1,034 Spectator M. Hankinson G. Gunn ... 1,843 Films ol G.B. A. Buchanan ... 1,131 P. Rotha Prods. ... D. Alexander ... Budge Cooper... 1,410 G.B.I Average 930 Realist M. Thomson ... 1,395 Crown , I Dalrymple ... J. Lee ... 6,770 Spectator M. Hankinson R. Carruthers 2,060 Strand B.Wright C. Delatour ... ... 1,384 Crown R. Elton 1,564 G.B. News 957 Verity H. Cass 1,048 See " Malta Convoy.' Green Park R. Keene 1,300 Verity H. Cass H. Cass 1,934 Shell E. Anstey A. Womersley 1,034 Shell E. Anstey K. Mander 1,651 Seven League H. Nieter 903 Spectator ... 595 Spectator ... M. Hankinson G. Gunn 1,214 G.B.S.S. ... F. Cadman i,373 Verity S. Box L. Birt . ••• 2,847 Crown I. Dalrymple H.Jennings ... 6,027 G.B.S.S F. Searle 1,504 Films of G.B. A. Buchanan 700 G.B.I D. Catling 954 P, Rotha Prods, ... D. Alexander J. Page 2,139