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THE
INDEPENDENT FILM-MAKER
Official Organ of The Independent Film-Makers Association
Hon. Secretary: G. A. SHAW, 32 Shaftesbury Avenue, LONDON, W. 1 Hon. Treasurer: J. C. H. DUNLOP, 4a St Andrew Square, EDINBURGH, 2
Advisers :
ANTHONY ASQUITH ANDREW BUCHANAN JOHN GRIERSON
ALAN HARPER STUART LEGG PAUL ROTHA BASIL WRIGHT
DOCUMENTARY • EXPERIMENTAL • EDUCATIONAL
IFMA
A few months ago the Independent Film-Makers Association was started. As with most new schemes at their inception, there were doubts about it. Were there enough amateurs wanting specialised information about definite aspects of their work who were not catered for by the local societies and groups? Were there even people taking their work seriously enough to want professional advice?
There were. People have wanted all sorts of advice. Some setting out on their first movie Odyssey have written for information about equipment. For contacts with other workers. For criticism of their films. They have written to argue the finer points of Pudovkin on Sound, or to find out the right filters to take to the West Indies.
In fact, a host of keen people want to make films and want to make those films as well as possible. To these our advisers have given the best of their professional experience; experience that means something; the experience of people who are making films.
The scheme is started — that, for the moment, is enough.
Stuart Legg's article in this issue is important, very important. Read it — learn it by heart even — but above all put it into practice. The clearer the treatment the better chance the finished film has of being a comprehensive whole.
The first issue of the Ifma Bulletin will appear very shortly It will contain details of a Summer School, Scenario Service and Film Exchange plans.
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