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DOGULIEI^TARY F 1 L 1.1 REVIS7/S
THE FILM OF TEE LIOIJTH ' " '
Tin^FIRjT DAYS
Production: G.P.O. Film Unit, Producer: Cavalcanti. Editing: H.'^. Mc Naught on. Ccrrnrientary ">/i/ritt3n and spoken by Robert Sinclair. Distribution: l.B.P.C.
TI-IIS IS A VALUABLE REPORTAGE, 2I0T OlILY OF THE EVENTS, BUT alfjo of the atmosphere irTTo'ndon during the first days of SeiioSKber 1959. Cavalcam:i and has team of producers and c-;''.oraiD.c:i must take a major credit for their enterprise, for it coul'I • not be made today - it vvas one of those moments that fly. Lut THE FIRST DAYS does more than report; it interprets. ¥i"|-.h a restraint which contrasts - oh how favouraoly - with the r'ordage and Merlery of THE LION HAS WINGS, it reveals the attitude of ^:he ordinary person to this war, and it sensibly (instead of hvG'cerically) reminds us of the idiocy and vvaste of war-in-general (note especially Sinclair's brilliant comjnents on sandbags and arsenals.) It sums up the feelings of bewildered sincer.'ty wj.th which the citizens of London faced the calamity so long dreaded.
The shape of the filra is episodic, but the effect is not jerky, partly because of the excellent cutting of sound and picture, but chiefly, one suspects, because the meditative cjuelity is given first place. In fact, the most deliberately built-up incidents are the least successful, as for example the good-bye. scene between boy and girl over a bunch of roses. The filmis real quality ;i :-be .it illustrated by the sequence of the troop-train leaving a London Terminus; the military band in terms exactly opposite '^o those of V/AR IS PiELL, the glimpse of women's faces through the impat^sive platform grille, and the vast cloud of steam — a baj^rage? a burning duir.p? a gas attack? — with which the lo^^.omotive, slow-ly released, signals its final going. This is a illm cf internptional as well rs national validity. As sensible warmorale it is very good; as anti-W'cr propaganda (without any defeatism.) it is eve^n better; and as a democratic statement it is absolutely first-class.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Production: Realist Film Unit. Direction: Frank Saincbury. CamLera: A.E. Jeakins. Distribution: V/orkers' Film Assoc ^ai^. ion ;• ■ 145 w'ardour Street, London, \7.1. (55 mm. and 16x^^.1.)'
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE STARTS V/ITH A SEC.UENCE SHOV/ING THE grim hard lives of the people after the Industrial Revolution.