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98 FILM
Men of the Lightship. (G.P.O. Film Unit, 1940. Director,
D. Macdonald.) Merchant Seamen. (Crown Film Unit, 1941. Director, J. B.
Holmes.) Listen to Britain. (Crown Film Unit, 1941. Director, Humphrey Jennings.) Adeste Fideles. (Strand Production Unit, 1941. Directors,
R. Keene and R. Bond.) Target for Tonight. (Crown Film Unit, 1941. Director, HarrJ
Watt.) Ferry Pilot. (Crown Film Unit, 1941. Director, P., Jackson.) Siege of Tobruk. (Army Film Unit, 1 942.) WaveWs 30,000. (Crown Film Unit, 1942. Director, J,
Monck.) Street Fighting. (Army Film Unit, 1942.) Blood Transfusion. (Paul Rotha Productions, 1942. Director,
H. Neiter.) Night Shift. (Paul Rotha Productions, 1942. Director, J.
Chambers.) Coastal Command. (Crown Film Unit, 1942. * Director, J. B.
Holmes.) Control Room. (Shell Film Unit, 1943. Director,' Geoffrey
Bell.) Spring on the Farm. (Greenpark Productions, 1943. Director,
Ralph Keene.) The Harvest Shall Come. (Realist Film Unit, 1942. Director,
Marc Anderson.) l
Documentary Theory in Wartime. — " Documentary News Letter," product of the documentary consultants Film Centre, has been reiterating impatiently the need for stronger and better documentary propaganda than, in its opinion, the Ministry of Information has seen fit to allow. The main line of attack is stated bluntly in these two paragraphs from the leading article for March 1942:
"Our propaganda has not failed merely for mechanical reasons. It has failed because it is bankrupt of ideas and bankrupt of policy.
" It will continue to fail just as long a6 our propagandists
1 List compiled up to early 1943 ; for more recent films see back of cover.