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DOCUMENTARY-THE CREATIVE INTERPRETATION OF REALITY
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VOL 2 No 5 PUBLISHED
MONTHLY BY FILM CENTRE 34
SOHO
SQUARE LONDON W1 FOURPENCE
81 NOTES OF THE MONTH
90 THE NATURE OF PROPAGANDA hv John Grierson
95 SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETIES
83 THE NATION AS FILM PRODUCER?
93 DOCUMENTARY BOOKINGS FOR V
96 CORRESPONDENCE
Are Actors Necessary?
84 A CASE FOR NATIONALISATION
97 ART AND THE ART-DIRECTOR—
87 FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS—
94 TWO FILMS OF THE MONTH
"Designing for Moving Pictures"
Reviewed by a film maker
Major Barbara — Love on the Dole
Reviewed by Paul Roiha
88 NEW DOCUMENTARY FILMS
95 FILM SOCIETY NEWS
98 FILM LIBRARIES
A Tax on Education
A "SUPPLEMENTARY DECISION" regarding Purchase Tax issued by Customs and Excise appears to many people to be an unwarrantable extra tax on sub-standard films used for educational purposes. Hitherto the interpretation of the regulations has been that copies of films "proposed solely for sale to an educational authority for hire out to schools, and subject to control by the authority, and not otherwise offered for general sale or hire to the public, are not chargeable with tax". This in effect meant that the copies of films supplied by most of the major documentary libraries were not subject to purchase tax. The new decision, however, appears to reverse this interpretation, for it is now stated that sub-standard film
copies will be chargeable with tax unless it can be guaranteed that "no copies of the film are, or will be, available for general purchase". This slightly vague pronouncement is supplemented by the statement that "a film made to the order of a sponsor will be chargeable with tax unless the sponsor can give an undertaking that no copies of the film will be sold". Now several non-theatrical hbraries such as the Petroleum Films Bureau, British Commercial Gas Association, etc., find that copies of their films are in constant demand from official bodies — not only from the Ministry of Infornaation, but also from the Services. Large numbers of copies of films on technical subjects are being purchased by Service authorities, and the new ruling establishes that not merely are these copies