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by the author. The outline of the map of Germany in 1914 was cut out in white paper, pasted on a large sheet of brown paper, and this model was exposed for two seconds. Then the separated territories, beginning with Alsace-Lorraine and ending with the Corridor, were designed as black spots into the area of the Reich, and every newly entered spot was exposed for 1-2 seconds. Finally the word " Never " was pasted across the picture of the mutilated Germany and again the mechanism of the camera worked for one second. In the projection you first see the light outline of the former Reich. Then, in quick succession, the many wounds that have been torn in Germany's body by the forcible peace of Versailles, and finally the protest in which all the Germans are united."
Film, by Rudolf Arnheim. Faber and Faber. 15/-.
Mr. Arnheim's book, in its original German edition, has already been reviewed in our columns. English readers will find it a welcome edition to their library and it may particularly be commended for its analysis of the bias in contemporary commercial films in the section entitled The MassProduced Film. With some of its criticisms manv will disagree, but the author knows his subject thoroughly and has given a far more comprehensive account of cinematography than most of the recently published books.
It is, however, a little discouraging to think that although so many of the critics of cinema understand the film thoroughly, the grip of the commercial producer increases rather than decreases. The barrier to real progress, the cost of the raw materials and rent of sound equipment, has stopped the excellent small groups who turned out experimental pictures, under the old silent film conditions. It is something for the enthusiast that he can study in this volume opinions on, and suggestions for, sound film technique but it could be wished that the matter of bringing the costs to a practical level for the small societies, had been noted.
The illustrations are well chosen and it is certainly one of the most important volumes issued to date on the cinema.
Film, No. 1, Spring, 1933.
This is a new quarterly, published in July, October, January and April, at four shillings for the year or one shilling each issue. It is edited by B. Braun, with Orlton West as assistant editor, and the editorial and publishing office is at 5, Joubert Studios, Jubilee Place, Chelsea, London, S.W.
The first issue, of twenty-six pages, contains articles which reveal definitely the policy of the magazine, summarised in the words of the editor — " Rather than attempt to destroy a sensation-seeking public, we wish to create a new one. This second public has, in the past, remained silent ; now it is hoped it will speak. Film is not going to devote a certain amount of incidental space to good cinema, but is going to be entirely devoted" to the film as an art. We shall seek a film-form and attempt to solve problems which prevent a realisation of that film-form."