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May 1958
FILM & TV TECHNICIAN
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19-49 December
Short-lived Joint Industrial Council formed between B.F.P.A., A.C.T., E.T.U., NA.T.K.E.
1950 May
Formation of A.C.T. Films Ltd., the first film production company in the world owned and operated by a Trade Union.
1953 November
Parliament approves introduction of commercial television.
1951 January
Mass trade union demonstration at Wyndhams Theatre to focus Government and public attention on plight of British film production.
1952 February
End of an era. A.C.T. fails to prevent Government abolishing Crown Film Unit (formerly the G.P.O. Film Unit).
1954 March
Laboratory Lock-out and Strike.
1955 April
Strike to force A.C.T. recognition in commercial television.
1956 March
A.C.T. becomes A.C.T.T.
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1957 August
Agreement signed with Programme Contractors' Association on behalf of technicians employed in commercial television.
1958 21st June
25 TODAY !
Illustrations by Land
WIDER YET AND WIDER!
Cinerama — CinemaScope — Todd AO Miraclescope — you think you've heard them all? Well I just read about one you haven't. How about SHOCKIKU-GRANDSCOPE (pronounced Schock-heyou, I presume). Its a Japanese process. What's it like? Don't ask me, go and see Chased, billed as " Would she give up her husband to be a murderer's sweet
heart?" when and if it gets to your local.
M.L.
" To my mind the film is far more important than the ' Daily Telegraph ', or ' The Times ', or ' Daily Express '." — Sir Henry French, quoted in the Journal of the British Film Academy.
* The fourth Soho Fair will take place this year, starting on July 13th.
JUST
A
PRINT!
'Twixt a print from a dupe and a
dupe from a dupe The difference is vast, And complications do ensue If the original is masked.
By printing from an unmasked
print With geometry reversed You get a print the wrong way
up, Projecting it head first.
To overcome this paradox You print it cell to cell, Reversing it from left to right And upside down as well.
By then of course the perfs will
be The wrong side of the frame; And so you show it back to front, It comes to much the same.
To make it clear, you mask the
print And dupe it cell to light, Reversing it from head to tail To make it come out right;
Remembering to compensate For difference in sync. By moving down the S.S. mark by fifteen frames — I think.
The second generation print Will now be mirrorwise, That is to say, inverted, but If I may just reprise —
Just mask the print and print
the dupe And dupe it with the track — A masked masked print of an
unmasked dupe of a master
you'll get back —
And when all's done and back it
comes And it's shown upon the screen, No matter how you've done the
job, How careful you have been.
Though you have not made one
mistake Accept this with a shrug — The print you see will be N.G. Because of flutterbug.
E. Davie s