Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

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44 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE Volume XII, No. 4 gan, a young flyer from Camden, New Jersey, who was interned in Switzerland after a forced landing in his Flying Fortress. The Last Chance was directed by Leopold Lindtberg, who pictured the trials and adventures of this highly cosmopolitan group with extraordinary realism and suspense. Some of them have escaped from brutal concentration camps : some have managed to elude the Nazi death ovens : others, after wandering across Europe, find themselves in Nazi-controlled Italy; still others, such as the British and American soldiers, are military escapees. They come together from many different places and sometimes have difficulty understanding each other. But in the crucible of their anti-fascism and their search for freedom, they achieve an indissoluble unity. Stereoscopic Movies Under the pressures of wartime technology, inventors have been at work on a variety of improvements for motion pictures, designed to achieve better color and stereoscopic depth. The Soviet film industry believes it has achieved three-dimensional images in the invention of Semeon Ivanov. In an interview in Moscow he said that Russians instinctively d o d g e when airplanes or birds come at them on the screen in pictures filmed by his process. The world will have to await completion of Robi)iso)i Crusoe, now in production by Mosfilm, to judge whether this long-sought effect, obtainable with dual still pictures held close to the eyes, can now be projected on a screen. The Russian method is reported to be a variation of the grid pr(;cess, by which two im ages are projected on the screen simultaneously and are broken up into closely spaced bands by a grid or grating near the screen. This grating also serves as the selective viewing means. Three other stereoscopic systems are now being developed. The Anaglyph method employs complementary colors with individual viewers. The Polarized Light method involves the use of polarizing viewers in which the axis of polarizing of one eyepiece is crossed with the axis of the other. A balanced-lens optical system, using single-image photography and standard projection equipment, has been developed by Stephen E. Garutso. With practically unlimited focal depth, from 40 inches to infinity, this optical balance is said to give the illusion of a third dimension. Captured by our army from the Germans, and now the property of the Alien Property Custodian, is a new negative-positive Agfacolor film developed by I. G. Farben Industries of Wolfen, Germany. Brifannica Films Enter World Market Dr. Theodore M. Switz has been appointed vice-president in charge of overseas sales for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., E. H. Powell, president, has announced. Dr. Switz has been in Europe attending visual-education conferences in England, Switzerland, and Sweden. Dr. Switz will be responsible for the world-wide distribution of classroom films produced by the film company. Many of the 500 teaching films are available in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Chinese, T u r k i s h, a n d Arabic. Foreign sound tracks are in production for many more titles and in other languages. “We believe that in a world grown small, every nation is ‘the family across the way’ — and its peoples are our neighbors,” Mr. Powell said. “Whether or not we remain good neighbors depends upon how well we understand one another. “In no way can interest in these world neighbors of ours — and their interest in us — be so dramatically and completely satisfied as through the medium of the authentic classroom film. Pictures speak a universal language. The classroom film is the closest approach to a basis for complete and mutual understanding— without bias or special pleading.” British Films Thomas Baird, Director of the Film Division, British Information Services, has announced that the Division’s 16mm films would be re-classified into historical and current pictures. For historical films dealing with war subjects, an archive will be set up in New York, where they may be obtained for reference purposes. At the same time, Mr. Baird pointed out, a number of historical films, such as Desert Victory, V-1, Operation Pluto, and Operation Fido, cannot yet be relegated to the shelves because they remain in constant demand. These will be continued in general circulation because they are great war pictures and examples of fine film making. Current films from Britain now fall into three categories : rehabilitation, reconstruction, and projects for the peace. Under the first come pictures like Ptack to Normal, Life Pegins Again, and Psychiatry in Action. Films on reconstruction include