The Cine Technician (1935-1937)

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Dec, 1936-jan., 1937 The Journal of the Association of CineTechnicians 111 Walt's Worst A CHANCE visit to a display of cartoon films brought sharply home to me the difference between the old and the present Mickey Mouse. And it confirmed my opinion that for robust construction and meat, the black and white could give the coloured up to Tattenham Corner and beat it to the post. Take the two I saw, fair representatives of either sort, "Mickey's Man Friday" and "The Orphans' Picnic." Granted a coloured film like "On Ice" is superb, but it has the same faults as "The Orphans' Picnic," faults arising from Walt's new habit of playing to the level of the orchestra stalls. There was guts in the black and white, real blood and brains ; now there is Drummer Dyes, dish water and dashes of Daddy's favourite sauce. Oh my ! buzzing with the dollar bee in his bonnet, Disney has gone Mae Westy. Will he buy the world with his gold or only invest it in experiments on robots that can draw ? Give us this week our weakly Mickey rats give it as you used to do, not with a sugar spoon but with a spatula. Three sighs for the time when Walt did not wilt ; when men were men, and women were choked. No whiskery gags to make children (8 to 80) laugh ; no personality pie ; no fake Jacob's coat of many colours, but corn in Egypt. Give us black and white corn, coloured corn, any old corn so long as it is not pop-corn. Our throats are thick with chaff, finches unstuffed sing sweetest. Disney is behind on his contracts : this great artist is now selling it by weight. When gods disappoint their worshippers they appear on the next day's menu. Well, there is plenty of body in this outfit now, but if you are not fond of sheep's brains when you bite, you'll spit. Dear Walt, Please send me a teddy bear so I can throw ink at it and rub it on my dolly. Dear Walt, Disney (as Schnozzle says) is Disney and the devil looks after the trailers. Dear Walt, very dear ten fags or a beer and a half and a hen and a half for a day and a half. Can you recall the roses round the floor and the hotcha girls playing on their cat's whiskers ? Yukan ? we can ; they aU can beer and bear him out on a brown bier and berry him. He was a good lad but they're Dunning him wrong. So let us Schuffle to pastures new, where the blooms rejoice in the sun and the dolly blues the bay. So they bring on a cart-horse what, a stall for a stallion ? Who'll lie in wait for this ? I'm at the last gasp ; ah color ! what chemises are dyed in your shame ! Do you qualify for your asylum ticket by standing a long way from God and seeing a big hole ? I present my complimentaries to orphans — they pick "Nick Carter." David Stein. "And Still We Need Them" — continued from page 109, hame will agree there are probably far less than 100 "aces" in the Industry available for employment here. For Industry s Benefit As technicians we, of course, want the film Industry to benefit. All that we ask is at least some sense of proportion when the employment of British or foreign labour is being discussed. Some of the best technical work is being done by British technicians ("A Woman Alone" is a recent case in point where all the technical staff, with one exception, was British), and we are confident that by judicious promotion there are many more British persons who are eager and capable to play their part in producing technically first-class British films. Great Britain is just as capable of producing "ace" Cine-technicians to-day as it produced most of the cinematograph pioneers at the beginning of the century. In conclusion, may I make a suggestion ? We have recently written to the Film Section of the British Industries, suggesting that a deputation be received from A.C.T. to discuss the whole question of the employment of foreign technicians in the British Film Industry. We are confident that such a meeting between employers and employees would help to clear up some of the misunderstandings and differences which Mr. Cunynghame's article proves to exist. As representing over 1000 Cine-technicians, we share with Mr. Cunynghame an earnest desire to build up a ■ flourishing British Film Industry. I Yours faithfully, I G. H. Elvin, Secretary, I Association of Cine-Technicians. PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY By FRANZ FIEDLER Franz Fiedler is universally known as one of the most capa>)ie and vital portrait photographers. His aim has always oeen merely this to fix with the camera true and vital aspects of humanity in a form which combines the greatest beauties with sureness of construction and modelling. But he IS a master of technique as well as a master of the camera, and he has put into the present book all that is valuable of the rich treasury of his experience, unveiling the secrets of his workroom and telling us how he has achieved his results and how others should achieve them. With 317 diagrams and sketches as well as hundreds of the authors own photographs. 198 pages. Royal Quarto. Just Out! 10/6 n(t from all Booksellers., or II; poU free from Book Department, 8-11 Southampton Street, Straiul, London, W.C.'Z. NEWNES