The cinema : 1952 (1952)

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PENGUIN BOOKS THE EDITORS Roger Manvell, the author of Film in the Pelican Series, is Director of the British Film Academy as well as a frequent writer and broadcaster on the cinema. He was formerly a Film Officer of the war-time Ministry of Information and Research Officer of the British Film Institute. As either author or editor he has been responsible for many books, including A Seat at the Cinema, Experiment in the Film and the National Cinema Series published by the Falcon Press. With Paul Rotha he has worked on the revised edition of Rotha's Movie Parade, and he has edited a volume of British Screenplays for the British Film Academy, which was published by Methuen. He has also lectured widely on the film in Britain and overseas. The Associate Editor, R. K. Neilson Baxter, graduated at Oxford in 1930, and then spent ten years in various featurefilm studios as an assistant director, production manager and location director. During the war he became one of the Admiralty's most valued training-film directors, and is now regarded as one of the country's leading educational film experts and a documentary film maker of some note. He has recently taken up an appointment with UNESCO in Indonesia. PENGUIN BOOKS