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EWS UTTER
)L 1 No 5 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY FILM CENTRE 34 SOHO SQUARE LONDON W1 THREEPENCE
NOTES OF THE MONTH THE MAN ON THE SCREEN I PIONEERING WITH A PROJECTOR
'The Scottish Evacuation Film Scheme
SCIENTIFIC FILMS
NEW DOCUMENTARY FILMS
DOCUMENTARY IN THE UNITED STATES
10 THE NEWS THEATRES AND SPECIALISED 14 FILM SOCIETY NEWS
CINEMAS
15 REVIEWS OF FOREIGN FILMS
I I U.S. FILM SERVICE
, , . ,. , ^ , r ,, r. ^ 16 NON-THEATRICAL FILM LIBRARIES
An Analysis oj the Catalogue of U.S. Government Films '^ SOME DOCUMENTARY BOOKINGS
12 TWO FILMS OF THE MONTH '^ ANTI-GOSSIP FILMS REVIEWED
Of Mice and Men aW The Grapes of Wrath jg some books about films
13 SHOULD DOCUMENTARIES GO THEATRICAL? 18 CORRESPONDENCE
inistry of Information
I KENNETH CLARK, lately director of the Film Section of the inistry of Information, has been entrusted with additional jponsibilities. He will co-ordinate the creative side of the inistry's work, including films. Mr J. L. Beddington has come director of the Film Section in his place. Beddington IS lately Assistant General Manager and Director of Publicity Shell Mex and B.P. Ltd., and has done more for the itish artist than any other figure in industry. Shell posters ve been recognised as the best of their kind in Great Britain, d his practical support of British art has been of incalculable iportance. His realistic association of the commercial needs ! his Company with the creative side of painting is one of the i' ost noteworthy achievements of public relations in this or |i \y country. He will bring to his new post both taste and a nse of public need — two qualities only too rarely associated )th commercial ability. [The Ministry of Information invited a distinguished audience
to a show of their first films on Tuesday, April 2nd, at the Odeon Theatre, London. M. Frossard, the French Minister of Information, was the guest of honour. The programme included one of the best documentary films yet made, Harry Watt's Squadron 992. The supporting films were the French version of a most efficient film assembled from newsreel material on the navy ; one of the new anti-gossip shorts called Dangerous Comment; La Cause Commune, a French version of a G.P.O. film on armaments ; and Len Lye's latest colour abstract, also associated with the anti-gossip campaign. If this is a fair sample of Ministry of Information films, the Ministry is to be congratulated.
A Few Questions
THE G.P.O. FILM UNIT'S Squadron 992 is so far the best prestige and propaganda short of the War. It can be regarded as a first-class selling proposition for the Trade on its box-office merits. It is now reported that the film is to be distributed by