Documentary News Letter (1940)

18 DOCUMENTARY NEWS LETTER NOVEMBER 1940 FILM LIBRARIES Borrowers of films are asked to apply as much in advance as possible, to give alternate booking dates, and to return the films immediately after use. H. A hire charge is made. F. Free distribution. Sd. Sound. St. Silent. Association of Scientific Workers, 30 Bedford Row, W.C.I. Scientific Film Committee. Graded List of Films. A list of scientific films from many sources, classified and graded for various types of audience. On request, Committee will give advice on programme make-up and choice of films. Austin Film Library. 24 films of motoring interest, industrial, technical and travel. Available only from the Educational Films Bureau, Tring, Herts. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. & St. P. Australian Trade Publicity Film Library. 18 films of Australian life and scenery. Available from the Empire Film Library. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. & St. F. 3, sound films on 9.5 mm. available from Pa the scope. British Commercial Gas Association, Gas Industry House, 1 Grosvenor Place, S.W.I. Films on social subjects, domestic science, manufacture of gas. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. & a few St. F. British Council Film Department, 25 Saville Row, W.l. Films of Britain, 1940. Catalogue for overseas use only but provides useful synopses of 100 sound and silent documentary films. British Film Institute, 4 Great Russell Street, W.C. 1 . (a) National Film Library. An important collection of documentary and other films. Available only to full members of B.F.I. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. & St. H. {b) Some British and Foreign Documentary and other Short Films. A general list of films and sources, (c) Early Films. Films 1896-1934 still available in Britain. British Instructional Films, 111 Wardour Street, W.l. Feature films; Pathe Gazettes and Pathetones ; a good collection of nature films. A new catalogue is in preparation. 16 mm. Sd. & St. H. Canadian Pacific Film Library. 15 films of Canadian life and scenery. Available from the Empire Film Library. 16 mm. Sd. & St. F. Canadian Government Exhibitions and Publicity. A wide variety of films listed in the Empire Film Library. Central Film Library, Imperial Institute, S.W.7. Has absorbed the Empire Film Library and the G.P.O. Film Library. Also contains all new M.O.I, non-theatrical films. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. & St. F. Coal Utilisation Joint Council, General Buildings, Aldwych, London, W.C. 2. Films on production of British coal and miners' welfare. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. F. Crookes' Laboratories, Gorst Road, Park Royal, N.W.IO. Colloids in Medicine. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. F. Dartington Hall Film Unit, Totnes, South Devon. Classroom films on regional and economic geography. 16 mm. St. H. Dominion of New 2^aland Film Library. 415 Strand, W.C.2. 22 films of industry, scenery and sport. Includes several films about the Maoris. 16 mm. St. F. Educational Films Bureau, Tring, Herts. A selection of all types of film. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. & St. F. Educational General Services, 37 Golden Square, W.l. A wide selection of films, particularly of overseas interest. Some prints for sale. 16 mm. & St. H. Electrical Development Association, 2 Savoy Hill, Strand, W.C. 2. Four films of electrical interest. Further films of direct advertising appeal are available to members of the Association only. 16 mm. Sd. & St. F. Empire Film Library. Films primarily of Empire interest, with a useful subject index. Now merged with the Central Film Library. 16 mm. and a few 35 mm. Sd. & St. F. Ensign Film Library, 88-89 High Holborn, London, W.C.I. Wide selection of all types of films including fiction, comedies, documentaries, films of geography, animal life, industry. Some prints for outright sale. 16 mm. St. & a few Sd. H. Film Centre, 34 Soho Square, W.l. Mouvements Vibratoires. A film on simple harmonic motion. French captions. 35 mm. & 16 mm. St. H. Ford Film Library, Dagenham, Essex. Some 50 films of travel, engineering, scientific and comedy interest. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. & St. F. Gaumont-British Equipments, Film House, Wardour Street, W.l. Many films on scientific subjects, geography, hygiene, history, language, natural history, sport. Also feature films. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. &St. H. G.P.O. Film Library. Over 100 films, mostly centred round communications. Now merged with the Central Film Library. 35 mm., 16mm. Sd. & St. F. Kodak, Ltd., Kingsway, W.C.2. (a) Kodascope Library. Instructional, documentary, feature, western, comedy. Strong on early American comedies. 16 mm. & 8 mm. St. H. (A separate List of Educational Films, extracted from the above, is also published. A number of films have teaching notes.) (6) Medical Film Library. Circulation restricted to members of medical profession. Some colour films. Some prints for outright sale. 16 mm. St. H. March of Time, Dean House, 4 Dean Street, W.l. Selected March of Time items, including Inside Nazi Germany, New Schools for Old, America Thinks it Over. 16 mm. Sd. H. Mathematical Films. Available from B. G. D. Salt, 5 Carlingford Road, Hampstead, N.W.3. Five mathematical films suitable for senior classes. 16 mm. & 9.5 mm. St. H. Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Traf ford Park, Manchester 17. Planned Electrification, a film on the electrification of the winding and surface gear in a coal mine. Available for showing to technical and educational groups. 16 mm. Sd. F. Ministry of Food Film Library, Neville House, Page Street, S.W,1, or from District Oflicers. 23 films mostly on cooking, nutrition and kindred subjects. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. & St. F. Pathescope, North Circular Road, Cricklewood, N.W.2. Wide selection of silent films, including cartoons, comedies, drama, documentary, travel, sport. Also good selection of early American and German films. 9.5 mm. Sd. & St. H. Petroleum Films Bureau, 15 Hay Hill, Berkeley Square, W. 1 . Some 25 technical and documentary films. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. & St. F. Religious Film Library, 104 High Holborn, W.C.I. Films of religious and temperance appeal, also list of supporting films from other sources. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. & St. H. Scottish Central Film Library, 2 Newton Place, Charing Cross, Glasgow, C.3. A wide selection of teaching films from many sources. Contains some silent Scots films not listed elsewhere. Library available to groups in Scotland only. 16 mm. Sd. & St. H. Sound-Film Services, 27 Charles Street, Cardiff. Library of selected films including Massingham's And So to [Vork. Rome and Sahara have French commentaries. 16 mm. Sd. H. South African Railways Publicity and Travel Bureau, South Africa House, Trafalgar Square, W.C. 2. 10 films of travel and general interest. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. & 4 St. versions. F. Southern Railway, General Manager's Office, Waterloo Station, S.E.I. Seven films (one in colour) including Building an Electric Coach, South African Fruit (Southampton Docks to Covent Garden), and films on seaside towns. 16 mm. St. F. Strand Film Company, 5a Upper St. Martin's Lane, W.C.2. Eleven films available for nontheatrical distribution including Aerial Milestones, Chapter and Verse, Give the Kids a Break, and a number of others of Empire and general interest, including 3 silent Airways films. Mostly 35 mm. Sd. A few 16 mm. St. F. Wallace Heaton, Ltd., 127 New Bond Street, W.l. Three catalogues. Sound 16 mm., silent 16 mm., silent 9.5 mm. Sound catalogue contains number of American feature films, including Thunder Over Mexico, and some shorts. Silent 16 mm. catalogue contains first-class list of early American, German and Russian features and shorts, 9.5 catalogue has number of early German films and wide selection of early American and English slapstick comedies. 16 mm. & 9.5 mni. Sd. & St. H. Workers' Film Association, 145 Wardour Street, Wl. Films of democratic and co-operative interest. Notes and suggestions for complete programmes. Some prints for sale. 35 mm. & 16 mm. Sd. & St. H.