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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.
HON. SECY.: THOMAS H. BAIRD. HON. TREAS. : J. C. H. DUNLOP. EDITOR: LESLIE BEISIEGEL32 SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, LONDON, W.I.
SCOPE FOR THE SILENT FILM
From schools, technical colleges, institutions, mobile units, training centres and other sources there comes an increasing demand for documentary and educational films. All of these films are on substandard and, most important for the amateur, they are wanted mainly silent.
We can assume then that the future of the silent documentary film on sub-standard is assured, and that it will be used extensively in the near future. This is where the independent producer appears. He has been making films for schools and colleges ; he has been making documentary; he has made educational films; and for the entertainment side, which seems to be growing larger, he has made entertainment films. But something has been missing from nearly every one of them, something that constitutes the basis of cinema: movement. These silent films have lost sight of the fact that they are unhampered by sound or commentary and therefore capable of more dynamic and kinetic treatment.
All films, and most educational films, are not suited for quick rhythmical development, but those which are have not attained the movement even of an early Fairbanks. They merely follow the technique of sound-film. There is still opportunity for the amateur to continue the art of silent film, which is capable of development as a separate medium, as the colour film is being developed. All recent developments of cinema have made it harder and harder for the producer to introduce essential and rapid movement into his films. The wealth of movement which was to be found in rushing crowds; the movement in the camera itself, which the Germans perfected; the movement of the film-strips which the Soviets dis
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