Documentary News Letter (1947-1949)

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GET Documentary Film News Every Mimih from l it in i'vntrv 3 / Soho Square Maui dim. 117 12 « uvar /nisi frw aniftrherv in thv irorlil TRANSCONTINENTAL SHOTS LTD CAN SUPPLY DAY & NIGHT Cameramen and Camera Truck Sound and Lighting Trucks Editor with Editing Facilities UNLIMITED LIBRARY, SOUND ANO VISUAL SHOTS ALWAVS AVAILABLE Phone : GER 1470 84 WARUOUR STREET. LONDON, W.I film /## o :i I hi if review the magazine for the intelligent film-goer containing articles on script-writing documentaryfilms producers directors f i 1 m f a s h i o ns treating the film ond film-making as art price 9d. from all newsagents or 10s. per annum post free from Precinct Publications 50 Old Brompton Road SW7 c / N E 1/ ! ( Rl DIT for the actual invention of the cinematograph is difficult to apportion It is certain that I ngl hmen played an important part. As lot John Herschcl published a theory of cinematography, and about 1889 a patent for a cinema camera and projectoi applied for by W Friese Gret ic and \1 I \ans. lodav the cinema is oui relaxation. Hut how main of us who go to "the movies", who watch the latest performance of our particular " star ". realise what the cinematograph industry owes to the workers in many branches of science and technology, and not least to the chemist? No other 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 lire is reduced to a mini mum. The hand oft he 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, pigment soft he truest and most m\ id colour. The sets for the ballrooms and palaces of the cinema's ( loudcuckoodom 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 i s 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 has enabled you to see the wonders of the world or the finest product of the cinematograph stud :arly and still at so modest a p FILM WOIKKSIIOI* LTII (Managing Director: Max Munden) The technicians who make up this unit have for seven years planned and executed specialised films for the Government and Industry which help to impart the information and emotion necessary for the smooth working and living together of people under changing conditions. We are making films for Government departments; and we welcome discussion with old sponsors, and new, who still have a social job to do in which film can play a part. 1 1 Arjjivll Nir«'«ki Oxford Cir«*us London Wl <Hkrrar<l 15177