The Cine Technician (1943 - 1945)

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January — April, 1944 THE CINE-TECHNICIAN ■_'.". cameramen," divided into two units, one at home and one in Italy, provide the excellent material for this very welcome product. A.C.T. Camerman Wins D.F.C. Pilot Officer J. A. F. Wright, who before joining the R.A.F. was in the Camera Department at Technicolor, has just been awarded the D.F.C. for his outstanding devotion to duty while making a film record of the Sicilian and Italian campaigns. During his service with the R.A.F. , Wright has been torpedoed while aboard a ship in the Mediterranean by a Heinkel 111 and made a parachute descent when his plane was hit while filming an attack on a road junction north of Isernia, landing safely three miles inside our lines. He had previously taken his camera on day-light bombing operations over France and Belgium. His father, E. J. M. Wright, News Editor Cameraman, British Paramount News, was then filming our attacks in Italy, and by a coincidence the pictures shot by father in Italy and son over France were exhibited in the same issue of the newsreel. "Jimmy" Wright is one of the few newsreel executives who has real feeling for newsreel technicians. He obtained his wings in the last war and left the comfort of the Paramount News Desk to become a War Correspondent Cameraman. His work in Flying Fortresses and low-flying attacks on Germany and Italy lias brought him much fame, and now the knowledge of his son's honour must make him indeed very proud — as A.C.T. is of its brave member. News of S/Ldr. J. Willoughby News just received from India that after relinquishing command of No. 2 RiA.F. Film and Photo Unit (Mediterranean) Sq. -Leader J. Willoughby, who was well known in the studio camera world and a long-standing member of A.C.T., has formed and taken over the command of No. 3 R.A.F. Film and Photo Unit for service under the South Easl \sia Air Command in the Far Eastern theatre of war. He returned home from India I ■ air and (hiring his stay he co-ordinated the ground work lie had carried out in India and formed the unit at the Air Ministry. The Squadron Leader has a very fine record during his overseas services and bakes very valuable war and technical knowledge to his new job. While tendering him our hearty congratulations we wish him the best of luck. CORRESPONDENCE— (Continued from Page 21). against our competitors. It is only too evidenl that even our own cinemas are top-heavy with American films, to an extent that is detrimental to our citizens and our industry. First and foremost, the answer to this market problem must be found, or after the war we will perhaps not be concerning ourselves with qtiestions of control, apprenticeship or foreign technicians, but the very existence of the film producing industry itself. We must not too easily forget thai ten years after the last war our studios were revived by artificial respiration in the form of the much abused Films Quota Act. This film history mast not be allowed to repeat itself. Yours, etc., STANLEY IRVING. S Lieut., R.N.V.R. I lth ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING SUNDAY, APRIL 23rd commencing at 10.30 a.m. CAXTON HALL WESTMINSTER, S.W.I (off Victoria Street. Nearest underground St. James Park) All members are entitled to and should attend. Many important policy decisions will be taken and officers elected for the ensuing year. A copy of the Annual Report and Agenda for the Meeting will be sent to each member a week before the Meeting.