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THE INDEPENDENT FILM-MAKER
Official Organ of the Independent Film-Makers Association DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL
ADVISERS: ANTHONY ASQUITH, ANDREW BUCHANAN, JOHN GRIERSON, ALAN HARPER, STUART LEGG, PAUL ROTHA, BASIL WRIGHT.
IFMA'S FIRST SUMMER SCHOOL AT WELWYN.
"Seldom the time, place and loved one, together." The loved one being, as a stage actress once said, that tin prostitute, the film. Digswell Park is a charming place, ideal for the first Summer School. The weather, an important factor, was kind. The rumour that there was a movie-maker, with cine-camera, under every chair is denied. Admitted, there were some queer angles, but none under chairs.
MARY FIELD on "The Instructional Film." Her knowledge of the subject, her personality and wit enabled Miss Field to give an excellent lecture on that branch of the cinema in which she is expert. She is one of the pioneers of the instructional film and amateurs would do well to follow her example and make films for the class-room. The instructional film can make great use of animated diagrams and maps and here again Miss Field shows the way for the amateur who wants to do something better than filming plays.
JOHN GRIERSON on "Sound."
I think I am justified in saying that John Grierson was our starturn. Just as, in the early days of cinema, the film was merely a record of what a play-goer might expect to see from the front row of the stalls, so it is with sound to-day. Grierson explained how most directors think only in terms of what we might call unbroken sound, unedited — as were the early visuals. Sound can be cut, dissolved, superimposed, voices can be used for conveying atmosphere instead of dialogue. Rhyming, chanting, blank verse and the subjective wordbuilding of James Joyce are all material for the sound-film. In a short time Grierson had sketched out the possible future of sound in films for the next five or ten years. A strange sea as yet uncharted.
STUART LEGG on "Shooting."
There are many people and places that just won't be filmed and come right, but Stuart Legg can make it if anyone can. He told us how for hours and days he has striven over one shot and then, when in sight of victory, has had it ruined by an unsuspected onlooker. Dealing with the person who always knows how a film should be
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