Action (May 1941 - Mar 1958)

TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX STUDIO CLUB Get ion. AUGUST, 1943 Volume 4, Number 8 (£jlloriJ Staff Editor Joel E. Ha wley Assistant Editor Marie 1 Lyon Action's Cover Lloyd Harting i/^eporteri Mechanical Effects News Evelyn Bell 3 Cafe Society News Edith Billmyer 3 Printables Mary Allen Gordon 7 Priorities in the Purchasing Oza Bowen 7 Men's Wardrobe Hazel Shirk 8 Transportation Jo Bonome 8 Inspiration Ed La Bart 9 Sound Recordings Theda Daitch 9 Shavings From The Mill A. P. White 10 Fone Room Fonies Cherry Nickols 10 Mail Room Missives Elizabeth Peterson 10 Sparks From The Arcs Lee Dunbar 12 Go Western Jack Kessler 13 B. B. Shot From Construction Betty Bow 13 Lab Gab Laboratory 13 Props W. L. Post 14 Findings From The Ladles Wardrobe Lee Roth 14 Lacquer Lane Benny Benson 14 Potash's Prattle Shirlye 15 Time Marches On Spencer Cloner 15 Nursery Tales Jim Briggs 16 Keeping Tab Ruth Rosander 16 Art Dept. Notes Helen Etzler 17 The Plaster Cracks Wanda Kahne 17 Sersen Shots Virginia Godfrey 18 The Script Tease Audre Rochlen 18 As 1 See It Murry Weiner 19 ^^eatureA Editorial Paul Green 2 That Cigarette — Keep It Burning Julian Johnson 5 Conservation and Patent Developments Robert Leland Gunn 6-7 Montage I I Specials Attention All Bowlers Geo. Mills 7 Interesting Facts About Our Paint Department Benny Benson 12 New Speed Laws Tom Young 17 By PAUL GREEN Out of the belief in the individual and the works of his brain and hands has come a new age to the world — the machine age. The Inventive genius of a free America has led the way for its coming — with the turbine, the steamboat, the cotton-gin, the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the development of the dynamo and combustion engine, and more lately the automobile, the airplane, the radio, the motion picture, and many another marvel never allowed for In heaven above or earth below. Seventy-five per cent of the machine age inventions have come out of America, and each and all of them, some more and some less, have carried with them the potentialities of greatness of service, enlightenment and inspiration to all men everywhere. For it is the nature of the machine to be universal in its humility of servitude. Its obedience to a master's will and hand. A carburetor works for a Chinese or a Japanese, an air drill turns for a white man or a Negro. The only requirement is the knowledge of how to run them. And that knowledge, its goes without saying, is not a matter of color or creed, of race or birth, or conditions of circumstance. It is a matter of opportunity and brains. Now of all the machines which man has created for his own betterment and self-expression, none, it seems to me, is fraught with greater possibilities than the motion picture. Here is an invention which Is unlimited in its power for progress and good — for entertainment of the finest sort, for inspiration, glory, grandeur, whatever term you wish to use In describing human nature with its ideals, its vagaries and vanities. There is nothing like it and never has been before — not the radio, phonograph, newspaper, hardly books even — for shaping peoples' lives, their thinking, manners, education, customs and their deeds. For here is a universal and democratic instrument for humanity's using — a story-telling medium with power to match any requirement and need of any creative mind. Nothing that can be imagined, nothing that can be thought or glimpsed or dreamed is beyond its ability somehow to state dramatically and excitingly. The hopes and fears and ambitions and disappointments and griefs, the varying faiths, the tugglngs and despairs that fill our lives from the cradle to the grave are fitted for its recording and its telling. The all-hearing ear, the all-seeing eye of the sensitive modern camera have made it possible. And today the movies have a part to play greater than ever before — a part in the order and welfare of the world s future. The jostling nations and races and creeds of this frantic planet are striving to get closer together in spirit and thinking as they have gotten closer together bodily and physically through the use of that winged engine — the airplane, and the radio. That's what the war is being fought about. And no agency is better fitted to help bring this to pass than the motion picture. For the screen appeals primarily to the eye and can hurdle language barriers more easily than the written or spoken word. It can reach directly to an audience whether in Moscow, London, or Berlin with the story it has to tell. And that story is being told — a story that leads to a mutual knowledge and common understanding. And the movies will tell it even more thrillingly and completely as time goes on. 20th Century-Fox Studio Clirb ACTION is published monthly at 10201 West Pico Blvd,, Los Angeles, California, by and for the membership of 20th Century-Fox Studio Club Subscription price $1.00 per year. Single copy 15c. Advertising rates furnished on request. Telephone; BRadshaw 2 2161, Station 1109. Entered as Second Class matter, April 2, 19-42, at the Post Office at Los Angeles, CalifoT-a, under the act of March 3, 1879.