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T II E CINE-TECHNI C I A N S. ptember October, 1941
qualified support to it. The resolution which the Council passed before sending the Repori to the President of the Board of Trade starts: "The Council, having carefully considered the Repori of the Committee, unanimously accept its broad conclusions and, without necessarily endorsing each and every detailed recommendation, on which certain members of the Council desire to reserve judgment, hereby adopt the Report, etc., etc." A guarded statement, you sec. The fact that, when the Films Council's new term of office started shortly after the Repori had been submitted, the Board of Trade appointed as; members several persons closely connected with the combines in place of others who had strongly advocated measures to combal discrimination and the more damaging trade practices lias caused a great deal of comment. But it would be foolish at present to pretend to see in this a sinister significance. The Report has been made and has been accepted by the Board of Trade for further consideration; the Films Council cannot revoke it now. Its future will be watched with close interest.
If we approve of the Repori and its recommendations, we and the people who agree with us have still much to do to ensure that the Board of Trade, the Cabinet and finally Parliament act upon it as we wish. That is why it is of vital importance to make its significance known to the public. ' The Films Council," says the Report, "has been actuated by the conviction that the industry can
not function to the full and proper advai the community unless provision can be made for ensuring the continuance ol a healthy competition of influenei s, methods and ideas. We have tl fore approached our task in the belief that Parliament will insist that the Government shall e cise continuing vigilance over all development this industry and take prompt mi preserve
and foster its independence from sectional and Eoreign control." Everyone who genuinely wants to see good British films made and shown 1 here and overseas can support such a policy. It means, by and large, establishing the principl equal opportunity for all. But that is imp >ss while the Americans and the combines betv them in one way or another control everything takes to turn out the films and get them on screen. R. K. Neilson Baxter.
RICHARD BROWN— A CORRECTION
Lt. -Commander Richard Brown. R.N.V.B called in to see us the other day on his ivtur from Moscow where he has been Assistant Nav: Attache. He very nicely corrected the wi information published in the Annual Repori is both his rank and award. He is Lt. -Command, and not Lieutenant, and he was awarded tl D S.C. and not the D.F.C.
Before the war Richard Brown was in charg of SubStandard Recording at British Acoustic.
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