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BRITISH
KMMATOGRAPHY
The Journal of the British Kinematograph Society
VOLUME SIXTEEN, No. 2 FEBRUARY, 1950
THE SOCIETY ACQUIRES NEW PREMISES
The Council is happy to announce that new premises have been acquired at:—
117, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.I. Telephone Nos. GROsvenor 4396/7.
Carnegie House, 117, Piccadilly, is the property of the Carnegie Trust, and is let only to non-profit-making organisations. It is easily accessible, being situated between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner stations (Piccadilly Line).
The Society is indebted to the President and Council of the British Film Academy, and to the Bureau of Current Affairs, who have co-operated in making this accommodation available, at a rental suited to the resources of the Society.
The new premises allow a room to be reserved for the library, and the Library Committee hopes that all members will make full use of the facilities available.
The President has conveyed the thanks of the Council to Messrs. Technical & Scientific Films Ltd., for their great courtesy during our temporary occupation of the premises at 53, New Oxford Street.
A NEW APPOINTMENT
Miss Joan Poynton, whose appointment as Secretary to the Society was announced by
the President last month, commenced her career as secretary to a Spanish merchant. After seven years in commerce, she became secretary to the British Rad Cross Society Massage
and Orthopaedic Clinics in Hertfordshire, which appointment she held for a further period
of seven years.
In the interest of gaining wider experience, Miss Poynton next became assistant secretary
of the Mental Health Emergency Committee which was appointed by the Central Association
for Mental Health to deal with the problems arising during the war in that field. After one year, Miss Poynton accepted the additional
appointment of Secretary to the Women's Advisory Council
of the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust. Still retaining
one of these appointments she became assistant to the
General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, when ! she had opportunity of working closely with personalities i of considerable reputation and ability.
Work of an experimental nature was carried out by
Miss Poynton as organising secretary of an International
Club, in which post she spent an educational though
strenuous year. In 1947, she became Public Relations ! Officer of the Institute for the Scientific Treatment of i Delinquency, when her work, broadly, centred on the i development of national and international relations, the i interpretation of policy and details of the work to the lay j public and press, increasing membership and appeals.
Miss S. M. Barlow remains Assistant Secretary to the I Society.
Photo by G. Scott Bushe