The Cine Technician (1939)

March-April, 1938 22G Let us now soliloquise .... Hats off! there goes our poor British Him Industry ... It is a sad loss, but the\ say it is better thai she went thai waj . . . Oh! Mr. St an . . . what have vou dcnie '.' I am the only adviser on films to the Lord Chief Justice Douglas " Shearer speaks: "Because light travels faster than sound, the sound tract must be 20 frames ahead of the picture to be in sync" . . . Cinema Art, Nov. 37. (English Editors and Cutters please copy). And so now miii see, it all goes to prove how wonderful science is. Now crowd round kiddies, and I'll tell you just how the Big Lad Wolf of Blenheim nearly raped the Hollywood .... | In the interests of public health the Editorial Committee have asked me to refrain from telling the rest of my powerful story |. Pog Lifts Tins comes to you by way of being lifted from Reynolds News (24 10/37) .... "Film Studio as Sp\ Headquarters," says poster. Somebody discovered a plot. A brief glance at it, however, showed that it was an old one. so they gave it back to the author and withdrew. And this is one from "Timothy Shy" in News-Chronicle (29/11/87): "There was a temporary hold-up the other day, we hear, at Denham, where the Robert Taylor film of typical Oxford life is being shot. What caused the hitch was that the various experts engaged in producing this British film couldn't decide whether a cricket ball is blown up or not, before the game. Overheard from a hook (Ethel Alannin. 1 think). Film Executive: I think we'll make a film of the "Well of Loneliness." Adviser: Vou can't do that, the Censor wouldn't pass it. Film Exe. : Why not? Adviser: Well, it's about Lesbians. Film Exe.: Alrighi then, we'll make 'em Austrians. Pog Surveys the World U.S. A Have just discovered that films, trade agreements and diplomatic channels mix . . . all for the sake of Oil. And 1 don't mean ( 'amera Oil. CtKhmaxy insisting thai the\ have Colonies, so they can send films to them, for without them the\ can't send them them, and them can't receive them, so them's that. Italy Nero has taken to harping . . . Must have heard all about the flowery fields. I\m\ Importing English Technicians . . . at least in thei iiy . Sen.iY Isi.i.s... .lust Xerts. Pog Presents the Government with a New Quota Scheme It is extremely unfortunate thai I haven't keen asked to speak on the subject of the British Quota Act and its meaning to the Home and Icelandic Markets. 1 can only assume thai the various other powers that are pulling the various other chains on the British Film industry, are jealous of my superior knowledge and of my cluck capacity. (That has all the ear-marks of a < fifty dig). M\ scheme in short is this . . . That we all go over to America and start a Quota there, as you know there is no opposition in this held, and the beauty of my scheme is this . . . when English films come over, thai have keen made by American stars and technicians, we refuse to count them as American films on the grounds that the Clapper bov was English. This will make the Americans so mad that they will be forced to import English technicians to Hollywood so as to gel even with us and to meet what they will consider unfair competition . . . And so you see Hollywood will be ours for the sake of asking . . . Asking wh: ? Asking Air. Oliver Stanley of course . . . oh ! I see There is no slump . . . (tell him. someone) Mr. 0. S. whose big baby are you? Pog Explains Reciprocity There his been a great deal of misunderstanding aliout what reciprocity realh means, so I intend to clear it up for g I.