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IT 0 T E S OF T K E Li 0 N T H
SIR KEIIIIETH CLARK'S ArrOIlTTMSIJT AS FliM CHIEF IT THE i/III.'ISTRY of Information, in the rjlaco of Sir Joseph Ball (vmo has resigned.) , will be ^-"velcomed hy everyone save the less iraaginative of V/ardour Street. Sir Kenneth v;as a nembcr of the Empire Marketing Board and Post Office poster comi'Aittees, and has an ezcellent background of ezperienct; in Public Relations. There is every hope that he will take imjinediate steps to end the inertia whicxh has till now more or less immcbilisod the personnel of (cr"-on,: otner brrinohe', of cinema) doc\;u.i-..ntrry. Ineido.utr..lly , the Ministry must not be saddled with all the blame for this. T-i^r^ hr-s been a great spate of mxmoranda many of them of a tiriieserving nature. Tncre has also been undignified lobbying by people v^ho should know better. 17o hope that, by now, the responsible persons at the Alinictry have realised that the Doeuiontary Movt.^.ient as a whole is less interested in petty financial rackets than in its assured aoility to assist in the national effort, \Tar-.t is needed from the Ministry is approval, goodwill, cooperation, and initiative especially initiative. Sir Kennct.i is j::ost likel^' to supply them.
THE BRITISH COIjI^CIL'S KH,W COiivIITTEE ON FILMS (V;HICH TAKES the place of the old Joint Co-:.-..;dttee ) is reported to have sufficient funds at its disposal to finance production and distribution of a number of quality documentaries. V/ith its commission to make cultural films for use overseas, it is in a positioii to produce a picture of our democracy which will also be of great value for use in this country. The programjnes should be well-planned, and subject m^atter should not be limited by a too-narrow view of the pres-umed tastes of foreign audiences. The Cji-- ittee should also see that tne films are economically produced. Over-lavish expenditure will only reduce the amount available for distribution, wnich, if it is imaginatively and properly done, will be by far the Fxost expensive item.
^HONOURS FOR EE^TSRELL COVERAG-E SINCE V/AR BEGAN ARE SHARED BY funsters FlOiiagan and Allen and some anonymous amateurs who happened to be on the spot when news was in the making. Flanagan and Allen's burlesque appendices to Gcumont reels decorate thr3 theatre of war with Palladium trappings. Flanagan ' g intimate interrogation of a hydrodynamically distressed German prisoner equals in news value and considerably betters in entertainirient the solemnly observed mud-wallowings of distin^^^ished visitors to the WwCtorn Front. Amongst the amateurs who have supplied newsreels with first hand evidence of the war at sea, the outstanding coiitributor is the British destroyer officer who photographed in admirable detail for Movietone an aerial attack -upon his ship. From Dr. Goebbels via a neutral country to Prr amount camie G'^ri.ian propaganda for Polish courage in scenes of the shelling of