Cinema Quarterly (1934 - 1935)

The boy saves the lodger from being struck down by the Cossack captain by hurling a bolt into the Cossack's eye. He in turn is struck down. Back again in his home, wounded and lying on a couch, he sees his father just returned from the battle with Japan. But before much is said the Cossack captain arrives and threatens the boy, striking him and insulting the father standing stiffly at a salute. The father kills the Cossack by striking him on the head. The film is at an end. All the factory sets are excellent; the direction is notable for the complete absence of camera-consciousness on the part of the children. Humour, sometimes riotous, runs all through the film. IFMA SUMMER SCHOOL. Peter le Neve Foster. Here are all the events that happened at Welwyn. Basil Wright and Stuart Legg are seen, and there is some cross-cutting of members dining and pigs wallowabout in sties. As is evident, the weather was ideal for filming, obliging clouds waiting for Foster to fit his filters and shoot them, posed gracefully above the charming Conference House. Copies can be obtained from the Hon. Secretary at 12s. 6d. GLASGOW INDEPENDENT FILM-MAKERS' GROUP is to be reorganized. Experiments with Dufay colour film are to be made, and a documentary dealing with the working of a modern super-cinema is under consideration. The group would welcome new members who are both enthusiasts and workers. The annual subscription is one guinea, and meetings are held at the Neo-film Studio, 42 High Street, Paisley. All who are responsible for the design, purchase, or maintenance of sound-film apparatus should obtain a copy of ''British Standard Specification for Photoelectric Cells of the Emission Type for Sound-Film Apparatus." (London: British Standards Institution, 2s.) There should now no longer be any excuse for misunderstanding between manufacturer and purchaser as to the meaning of such terms as "sensitivity" and "variation of frequency response." An important feature of the specification is the standardization of dimensions. ^The Workers' Film and Photo League, 86 Gray's Inn Road, London, W'.C. 1, has been formed to produce its own films recording the industrial and living conditions of British workers and the struggle of the employed and unemployed to improve these conditions; to popularize Russian films; to criticize current commercial films in the press and in its own literature; and to arrange lectures to working-class organizations. Independent cine-workers should be interested in a new activity of the Film Editorial Service of 130 Wardour Street, W. 1, which is opening an Advisory and a Service Bureau under the direction of Fred Pullin. The former offers constructive criticism on scenarios or completed films, while the latter attends to such technical matters as cutting, titling, fades, dissolves, wipes, or is prepared if necessary to take the uncut film as it leaves the camera, and produce a properly edited copy ready for presentation. THE CINEMATOGRAPHER'S BOOK OF TABLES helps the professional and amateur cameraman to save time, avoid mistakes, and increase efficiency. It fits the vest pocket, and costs 5 post free from Cinema Quarterly, 24 N.W. Thistle St. Lane, Edinburgh, 2. If you are interested in documentary, experimental and educational production, write for a prospectus to the Hon. Secretary, THOMAS BAIRD, 32 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W.l. 128 FMA