Documentary News Letter (1940)

Record Details:

Title:
Documentary News Letter
Date:
1940
Publisher:
London, Film Centre
Volume:
Documentary News Letter (1940)
Leaf #:
0008
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
United Kingdom and Global Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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On November 1 1939 Petroleum Films Bureau issued its first catalogue of documentary and instructional films. Nineteen films; fourteen sound and five silent, all available free, 35mm. and 16mm. size, on non-inflammable stock. Of this new series of films the film critic of the "Times Educational Supplement" wrote "it is undoubtedly the most significant gift in the field of visual education ever given by an industrial concern to the schools." The films are in three groups: How Oil is Produced, How People Use Oil, and How Motor Cars Work. There are films for teachers of geography, physics, chemistry, mechanics, and civics. A number of the films are suitable for film society programmes. Detailed synopses are available. The group of films on the uses of petroleum contain films dealing with heavy industries, agriculture, transport, and civil engineering. Of TRANSFER OF POWER the film critic of the "Sunday Times" wrote it is "a short but dazzling demonstration of human genius for invention." PETROLEUM FILMS BUREAU 15 HAY HILL BERKELEY SQUARE LONDON Wl