Cinema Quarterly (1934 - 1935)

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to the producers to give the public credit for ten times as much native intelligence as they do. CINE-PHOTOGRAPHY FOR AMATEURS. By J. H. Reyner (London, Chapman & Hall, ios. 6d.) appears in a new and revised edition, and with its many illustrations and technical hints should assist the amateur to get the best results out of the efficient apparatus now at his disposal. PRACTICAL SET STRUCTURE. By D. Charles Ottley (London, Pitman, 5s.) is another useful book for the amateur, telling how studio sets, flats, and lighting units may be made economically and with a minimum of material resources. As a practical guide it will be welcomed by all amateur cine societies who possess a studio. THE KINE YEAR BOOK (London, Kinematograph Publications, 1 os.) contains as usual a vast amount of information about film production, distribution, and the organization of the trade at home and abroad. Its 600 odd pages are a valuable encyclopaedia of the screen and an essential work of reference for everyone intimately connected with the cinema. "MOVING PICTURE MONTHLY" 1935 ANNUAL (Bombay, Re. 1. 4.) is a trade-fan illustrated survey of Indian cinema affairs, which shows that, whatever may be the quality of native production, there exists in India a stupendous enthusiasm for the new art. CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS NUMBER CAMPBELL NAIRNE. Film critic of the Glasgow "Bulletin" and author of "One Stair Up" and '* Stony Ground." RICHARD GRIFFITH. American film student and journalist. ARTHUR SHEARSBY. Notable British artist, at present planning experiment in cartoon films. MARIE SETON. Well-known writer on cinema and drama, particularly Russian. RAGNAR ALLBERG. Swedish film journalist. HERMAN G. WEINBERG. Conducts the Little Cinema Theatre in Baltimore, U.S.A. ERNEST BETTS. Film critic of the "Sunday Express." R. J. MINNEY. Anglo-Indian journalist and author of the play " Clive of India" from which the film of the same name is adapted. PAUL ROTH A. At present directing The Face of Britain for G.-B. Instructional. BASIL WRIGHT. Director of The Song of Ceylon and numerous other documentaries. J. S. FAIRFAX-JONES. Director of the Everyman Cinema, Hampstead. KINO FILMS have recently released several more Russian films on 16mm. stock, including the two Pudovkin masterpieces, Mother and Storm Over Asia, Trauberg's New Babylon, as well as two good shorts — Oil Symphony and a cartoon, The Little Screw. All these, as well as their other releases (Potemkin, General Line, Son of a Soldier, etc.), are complete and uncut versions, and all are on non-flam stock, which makes it possible to show them anywhere without restrictions. KINO also handle the productions of the Workers' Film and Photo League, which include one or two short documentaries, a short story film, and three newsreels. Particulars may be obtained from KINO FILMS (1935) LTD., 84 Gray's Inn Road, W.C. 1. 167