Documentary News Letter (1947-1949)

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THE HISTOItY OF THE CINEMA The Filmstrip Reports on the Film For the firsf time an authoritative History of the Cinema is available in its most practicable form for presentation to students. Youth Clubs, Film Society groups, etc. Prof. ROGER MANVELL. on behalf of the British Film Institute, and Mr. HOWARD CRICKS of the British Kinematograph Society, have prepared for COMMON GROUND Ltd. a series of filmstrips. together with impressive commentaries, on the development of the Cinema in Europe and America, and a supplementary series on the evolution of film apparatus from its infancy to the present day. Both series will be kept up-to-date by further issues. CGA 253 American Silent CGA 226-227 British Feature CGA 228 British Documentary Early European and American ( 1895 1914) French Silent French Sound German Silent German Sound Russian Silent Russian Sound Invention of Kinematograph) Film Production CGA 137 CGA 151 CGA 152 CGA 122 CGA 123 CGA 86 CGA 87 CGA 222 CGA Ready Shorth Technicalities of [Cinematography Colour and Stereoscopy Each strip contains from 35 to 40 pictures from a wide range of classicfilms. The most complete survey yet published for study. Other strip-textbooks available on a wide variety of subjects. Price 12s. 6d. net complete from EDI < ATIONAL SUPPLY ASSOCIATION, 181 High Holborn, W ( I COMMON GROUND SERVICES DEPARTMEN1 undertake the making-up of filmstrips to indi\idual rt r|inr< merits commov i; mi ii mi i in., I si Hi «lnij Plan', S.IY.7 C I N E M A a ( RL DIT for the actual invention of the cinematograph is difficult to apportion. It is certain that I nglishmcn played an important part. As long ago as I8( John Herschel published a theory o\' cinematography, and about 1889 a patent for a cinema camera and p was applied for by W. Friese Greene and \1. I vans. Today the cinema is our Teat relaxation. Rut how main of us wl to "the movies", who watch the latest performance of our particular " stai ". realise what the cinematograph ind owes to the workers in many branches ol science and technology, and not least to the chemist ? No othei form of entertainment owes him so heavy a debt. Celluloid itself, the basis of the industry, is a chemical achievement. This must be transparent to give clear images after great magnification, resilient and tough to stand great strain. It must be so treated that the danger from fire is reduced to a minimum. The hand of the chemist is indeed traceable from the make-up of the actors to the lamps in the projectors. In the apparatus used for the soundrecording rare metals are needed : in the lenses of cameras and projectors, optical glass of the highest quality : in the colour-photography, pigments of the truest and most us id colour. The sets for the ballrooms and palaces of the cinema's Cloudcuckoodom involve the use of large quantities of paints, quick-drying stucco and plasters: the costumes and draperies must be dyed. The tale is continued into the cinema theatre itself, in its decoration, its disinfection, its air-conditioning. When next you sit in your favourite cinema, think for a moment of the patient work in laboratory and factory that hasenabled you to see the wonders of the world or the finest product of the cinematograph studio so clearly and still at so modest a price. Producers who Pian to in elude animated diagram cartoon or special effects in their current films are invited to consider the services offered bv . . . POLYTECHNIC FILMS LIMITED •>K>< k\v ELLS' I \PI.<>\\ BUCKS Telephone MAIDENH1 ID *47 3 I . . grt POI 1 I ! . ■