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DOCUIVIENTARY — THE CREATIVE INTERPRETATION OF REALITY
VOL 1 No 10 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY FILM CENTRE 34 SOHO SQUARE LONDON W1 FOURPENCE
1 NOTES OF THE MONTH 3 M.O.I. UNDER FIRE
Analysis of the Select Committee's Report
5 NON-THEATRICAL
Analysis of the M.O.I. Programme
6 DOCUMENTARY BOOKINGS FOR OCTOBER
7 NEWS FROM OVERSEAS
8 REVIEWS OF M.CJ.I. NON-THEATRICAL FILMS 10 A MINISTER OF BROADCASTING?
Capt. Plugge's speech in the Commons
13 THE OTHER CINEMA
hv R. S. Miles
14 ROSTER OF ONE YEAR'S PRODUCTION OF SHORT PROPAGANDA FILMS
16 FILM SOCIETY NEWS
17 BOOK REVIEWS
18 FILM CATALOGUES
Government Cinematograph Adviser
IN THEIR REPORT the Select Committee on National Expenditure records that the experience of the Government Cinematograph Adviser was freely used both in the pre-war planning of the Films Division of the M.O.I, and in the subsequent work of the Division up to the end of December. Since then, and contrary to Treasury instruction, the Sub-Committee reports that he has not been consulted. Commenting upon this an Evening News correspondent states : —
"The man whom the Film Section is advised to consult before embarking on future film production is Mr. J. G. Hughes Roberts, a Stationery Office official. He is at present 'seconded' to the Film Section. Soon after the end of the last war the War Office discovered, with some alarm, that it had in its Whitehall cellars many miles of highly-inflammable film, taken on the various battle fronts. No one knew how to keep
films safely, so that it was with a good deal of relief that an ex-Salvage Corps officer, Mr. Foxen Cooper, was found in the Stationery Office. He at least knew how to put out fires, and he became custodian of the nation's official films. With enterprise he developed his new charge until he became the Government's film librarian. So it happened that whenever any professional producer wanted to borrow a bit of old war film for incorporation in a new picture, Mr. Foxen Cooper was the oracle who decided for or against permission to borrow the old celluloid. Inevitably, he was consulted on all Whitehall's film problems, and the post of Government Cinematograph Adviser was perpetuated by Mr. Hughes Roberts' succession to Mr. Foxen Cooper. This is the only explanation, I am told by leaders of the film industry, for the peculiar situation of a Stationery Office official being an expert on film matters."