Canadian Film Weekly (May 3, 1944)

May 3, 1944 ‘Memphis Belle Amazing Film (Continued from Page 1) completely without grabbing it suddenly by sharp shocks. The auditor’s interest becomes intense and he watches deeply impressed but with never the feeling of having undergone a harrowing experience, This film, the record of a bomber over Germany, leased at the instance of the War Activities Committee and _ is being handled by Paramount at print costs alone. Made under the supervision of Lieut. Col. William Wyler, who directed “Mrs. .Miniver” and other fine films, one of the two photographers who shared the trip with him, Lieut Harold J. Tannenbaum, was later killed in a mission over France. “Memphis Belle’ dispels the idea that Technicolor is unsuited for serious films the effect of color is usually soft, gay and friendly. The Technicolor here, though on a 16 mm. blowup, lends itself perfectly to the presentation of certain aspects of flight never shown before. There are scenes of planes in the air that have never been duplicated from a standpoint of novelty It is hard to describe what the dialogue among the fliers, watching the enemy come at them and seeing their comrades trying to USA was re because get out of damaged planes, does to you. Nothing like it has ever been heard on the screen before It has a quiet, desperate urgency absolutely unlike what the audience has been conditioned to by fictional films. The film is beautiful to look at, compelling in its interest, has much honest humor and, though it is realistic because of its very nature, is never brutal. Because of these qualities, it is an excellent general audience film. Thieves on Rampage in Montreal Row Film Row, Monkland Avenue Montreal, was raided by thieves one day last week just before dawn. They went through every exchange. ‘ Twentieth smashed Century-Fox's safe Paramount's The and $5.50 was and office collected S30 in was wrecked thieves cash in stamps Odeon Theatres Add Two More to String The Capitol Theatre St. John house, and ths YO0-Sea LJuenec Sturgeon Falls Theatre Stur geon Falls Ontario, 450 eats have been purchased by Oda Theatres f Canada fron the OSCAI Hanson interests Udceon operation is now in effect, it was announced by Haskell Master Odeon general Manage ‘Let the Children In’ From an editorial by 8S. Mor Powell in the Montreal Daily Star pee resentment at yielding attitude of the Que gan the un bec Government in regard to the attendance of children in filn theatres is growing steadily i bitterness It has Since and been largely accentuated the war by the fact that ‘teen-age children of intelligence : volume youngel have themselves joined the of the protestants. I have received large numbers of letters from young people, many of them couched in _ surprisingly logical terms, condemning the prolongation of the year-old prohibition against children under the sixteen being admitted to any tre in the city One of the strongest arguments they as well as their elders advance is that the Government’s attitude is inexplicably inconsistent, since it places no such prohibition against children going to films shown in church basements and parochial halls, which are certainly not, in the great majority of cases, half so well equipped from the point seventeen age of film thea see of view of safety and fire prevention as our modern film theatres, The latter, it must be remembered, have to pass a stiff stan dard of building department inspection by the civi The tions which existed in the theatre condi where the holocaust of seventeen years agt took place are no longer existent in any theatre in the city of Montreal, and therefore the basic reason for the prohibition no longer exists from “Address hit, starring Academy A scene Canadian FILM WEEKLY Unknown,” Award winner Paul Lukas. British Films The Chatham Ontario) Daily New talks about the Britis! Film in Canada pelea by the success hich “ has attended the showing ol productions f the type the for British films in Can tay tuture > ae op Hae? —— snoulid pe eXceile!l if} any event British pr that after the war wMiucers inunce will seek a larger per Empire film trade which have lywood, and since produced little worthy sideration acute ror a iong features of majority One of the worst the fact that the great of pictures shown have been Hollywood productions, is that historical films have, quite natural ly, been produced from the American viewpoint, and fre quently a wrong impression has been left in the minds of Can adian boys and girls. This is particularly so as far as productions are concerned. With ar foreseen for British war iIners ising popularity dramatic new Columbia Page 7 Psychologists for Censor Boards? 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