Documentary News Letter (1944-1945)

DOCUMENTARY NEWS LETTER 107 2. NEWSREEL TRAILERS TITLE PRODUCTION UNIT DIRECTOR GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT RELEASE DATE NOTES Coals of Fire A gag The Conjurer Proceed According to Plan Your Perishing Rubber Kitchen Nuts Pay as You Earn Write to the Forces Do Moths Make Good Mothers ? Tim Marches Back Butterfly Bomb Cold Comfort Early April Domestic Workers Children's Vitamins Compost Heaps From Rags to Stitches It Makes You Think A Tickets Dream Eat More Green Vegetables Blitz on Bugs Careless Talk Fifteen Bob Grain Harvest Bristles and Brushes Tom Johnstone's Appeal Little Drops of Water Diphtheria V Bones, Bones, Bones Blood Transfusion Here We Go Gathering Spuds Harvest Uplift John Bull's Workers Come on, Girls Books for the Brave Clear the Roads Burning Results You Can't Keep an Old Blade Down One Pair of Nostrils Tyre Economy Old Lags Mrs. Sew and Sew Diphtheria VI That's the Stuff to Give 'Em! How to Use Your Doctor Christmas Wishes Thank You. Housewives Concanen D. de Marney Min. of Fuel and Power 13th Jan. Publicity Pictures — Min. of War Transport 20th Jan. Merton Park A. C. Hammond Min. of Fuel and Power 3rd Feb. Crown G. Bryant Min. of Agric. and Fisheries 17th Feb. Crown G. Bryant Ministry of Supply 24th Feb. Crown G. Bryant Min. of Fuel and Power 9th March Strand R. McDougall Treasury 16th March Army F.U. — War Office 23rd March Publicity Pictures — Board of Trade 30th March Film Traders Hoellering G.P.O. 6th April Verity D. Birt Ministry of Home Security 17th April Re-issue Halas Batchelor — Ministry of Fuel and Power 20th April Cartoon Merton Park R. Curtis Min. of Agric. and Fisheries 27th April Merton Park R. Curtis Ministry of Labour 4th May Merton Park R. Curtis Ministry of Food 8th May Halas Batchelor — Min. of Agric. and Fisheries 1 1th May Cartoon. Re-issue Halas Batchelor — Ministry of Supply 22nd May Cartoon Elwis — Fire Offices Committee 29th May Elwis — Ministry of Supply 1st June — — Ministry of Food 4th June Scotland only Halas Batchelor — Ministry of Agric. and Fisheries 8th June Cartoon Strand G. Gunn Security Services 6th July P. Rotha Prods. — National Savings Committee 10th July England and Wales Campbell Harper — Scottish Office 10th July Scotland only Elwis — Ministry of Supply 13th July Merton Park E. C. Musk Scottish Office 27th July Scotland only Concanen D. de Marney Ministry of Health 10th August Strand R. Macdougall Ministry of Health 17th August Elwis — Ministry of Supply 24th August Concanen D. de Marney Ministry of Health 7th Sept. Spectator A. H. Luff Dept. of Agric. for Scotland 11th Sept. Re-issue for Scotlan Verity W. McQuitty Ministry of Agriculture 14th Sept. England and Wales Concanen D. de Marney Ministry of Labour 2 1st Sept. Merton Park W. McQuitty War Office 25th Sept. Concanen D. de Marney Ministry of Supply 28th Sept. Concanen D. de Marney Ministry of Supply 5th Oct. Strand G. Gunn Fire Offices Committee 9th Oct. Strand R. Macdougall Ministry of Supply 12th Oct. Giles — Ministry of Health 19th Oct. Cartoon Film Traders G. Hoellering Ministry of Supply 26th Oct. Film Traders G. Hoellering Ministry of Health and Ministry of Fuel and Power 2nd Nov. Re-issue H. Batchelor — Board of Trade 6th Nov. Cartoon Concanen D. de Marney Ministry of Health 9th Nov. Crown M. Gordon Ministry of Supply 11th Nov. Strand P. Price Ministry of Health 23rd Nov. Re-issue H. Batchelor — G.P.O. 7th Dec. Cartoon Crown, M. Gordon Ministry of Supply 21st Dec. 3. COLONIAL FILM UNIT PRODUCTIONS TITLE LENGTH DATE OF DESPATCH REMARKS 16 mm. OVERSEAS 354 ft. 14/1/44 16 mm. Silent 366 ft. 19/1/44 16 mm. Silent 433 ft. 19/1/44 16 mm. Silent 326 ft. 24/1/44 16 mm. Silent 1,320 ft. 4/2/44 35 mm. Sound 911 ft. 4/2/44 35 mm. Sound 882 ft. 17/2/44 16 mm. Silent 1,751 ft. 21/2/44 16 mm. Silent 366 ft. . 23/2/44 16 mm. Silent 292 ft. 27/2/44 16 mm. Silent 225 ft. 10/3/44 16 mm. Silent 284 ft. 10/3/44 16 mm. Silent 389 ft. 14/3/44 16 mm. Silent 384 ft. 22/3/44 16 mm. Silent 340 ft. 26/4/44 16 mm. Silent 350 ft. 26/4/44 16 mm. Silent 401 ft. 26/4/44 16 mm. Silent 347 ft. 12/5/44 16 mm. Silent 350 ft. 7/6/44 16 mm. Silent (Kodachrome) 331 ft. 19/6/44 16 mm. Silent 340 ft. 28/8/44 16 mm. Silent 272 ft. 28/9/44 16 mm. Silent 371 ft. 7/10/44 16 mm. Silent 410 ft. 14/10/44 16 mm. Silent 874 ft. 10/10/44 35 mm. Sound 593 ft. 20/10/44 16 mm. Silent 368 ft. — 16 mm. Silent 440 ft. — 16 mm. Silent 1,114 ft. 16 mm. Silent 373 ft. 14/11/44 16 mm. Sound 317 ft. 14/11/44 16 mm. Sound 284 ft. 14/11/44 16 mm. Sound 406 ft. 14/11/44 16 mm. Sound 239 ft. 14/11/44 16 mm. Sound 532 ft. 14/11/44 16 mm. Sound 509 ft. 15/12/44 16 mm. Silent The British Empire at War No. 1 3 The British Empire at War No. 14 The British Empire at War No. 15 The British Empire at War No. 16 Africa's Fighting Men West African Editors West African Editors (two reels) A British Family in Peace and War (four reels) The British Empire at War No. 17 The British Empire at War No. 18 Sam the Cyclist Cossack Horsemen The British Empire at War No. 19 The British Empire at War No. 20 The British Empire at War No. 21 The British Empire at War No. 22 The British Empire at War No. 23 The British Empire at War No. 24 Progress in the Colonies (Kenya) The British Empire at War No. 25 The British Empire at War No. 26 Springtime in an English Village The British Empire at War No. 27 The British Empire at War No. 28 West Indians Join the R.A.F. Germans in Norway The British Empire at War No. 29 The British Empire at War No. 30 Margarine (three reels) West African Editors Your People in Britain Cossack Horsemen Land and Water Sam the Cyclist Africa 's Fighting Men The British Empire at War No. 30 DOCUMENTARY NEWS LETTER Owned and Published by Film Centre Ltd., 34 Soho Square, W.l Annual subscription times a 6s. (published six Editorial Board. year) Edgar Anstey Donald Taylor Arthur Elton John Taylor Bulk orders up to and 1 iIh 50 copies Societies. for schools Geoffrey Bell Alex Shaw