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Advertising agents tell us that if you have a good article and shout about it long enough and loud enough, you are certain of a response. I believe this is true. Although I have not shouted very loud, I have been declaring my beliefs for quite a long time and have at last evoked a response.
The Gaumont-British group have financed a company, G-B. Instructional, to devote itself to the production of documentary films, for a period of five years. Farsightedness and courage and belief in the future of the documentary film are necessary to put in hand a proposition of this description. By their action in this matter Gaumont-British have shown they have the courage to back that belief with finance, which is the crucial test. The new company will start under favourable conditions with a fixed determination to do its utmost to justify the belief reposed in it.
CINEMA LIBRARY
FILMCRAFT. By Adrian Brunei. (London: Newnes, 3s. 6d.) This book is not concerned with the technicalities of camera work and film processing, but with the actual production of films, from the scenario department to the editing bench. It goes through every phase of film production, even giving what so many writers of film handbooks have neglected, a detailed analysis of a given scenario, showing the why and wherefore of the inclusion and rejection of certain shots.
The inclusion of twelve appendices by experts is a happy idea, and special mention must be made of those by Ivor Montagu on 'Creation," John Orton on 'Direction," and Reginald Beck on 'Sub-Standard Editing," in the last of which the writer emphasises the point that reversal stock can never be as satisfactory in the cutting-room as the negative-positive film. There is a glossary of film terms and several illustrations. L.
BROTHERS OF THE SNOW. By Luis Trenker. (London: Routledge, 7s. 6d.) If Trenker could write a book as well as he can make a film his autobiography would be twice as interesting. As it is, we never become interested in his early life, and his chapters on film-making are only superficially interesting. Hollywood's hothouses, we are glad to know, however, have no attraction for Trenker the Alpinist, who longed for his snows throughout his visit to California. The book is worth reading to learn that Alpine snow is an antidote to Hollywood dope.
Notices of two novels from which films have been adapted — The Child Manuela (Maedchen in Uniform) and The Stranger's Return — are held over until the next number.
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