Film and TV Technician (1957)

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May 1958 FILM & TV TECHNICIAN 265 Death of A. E. Inglethorpe We very much regret to announce the death of one of A.C.T.T.'s oldest members, Alfred Edward Inglethorpe, one of the old-time news-reel cameramen who worked for many years for Gaumont and Pathe. Brother R. W. Smith writes : •' Alfred Edward Inglethorpe had an inventive brain and was responsible for many improvements on cine cameras and projectors. Many years ago he constructed a tripod with a floating head to correct horizon when filming at sea. Even up to the time of his death at the age of 69 he was working on a back projection model of his own design for use in schools and for advertising. He will be remembered with affection by old members of A.C.T.T." Two Weddings Brian Shemmings, Branch Secretary, Pathe, Wardour Street, writes : Two of our members got married during March this year. The first was Ronnie Steele, who was married on March 22nd at St. Margaret's Church, Streatham, to Miss Marion Lait. There were 90 guests at the reception. The Branch presented Ron and Marion with an electric fire as a wedding present. The second was Les Holland, who was married on March 29th at St. Jude's Church, Elephant and Castle, to Miss Eileen Sone. An archway of fishing rods was lined up outside the Church, for Les is an ardent member of the Southwark Angling Club. There were 52 guests at the reception, including his brother Bill, who works with him at this Branch. Les and Eileen were presented with a canteen of cutlery, a wedding present from the Branch. FILM & TV TECHNICIAN Editor: MARTIN CHISHOLM Editorial Office: 2 Soho Square, W.l Telephone: GERrard 8506 Advertisement Office: 67 Clerkenwell Road, E.C.I Telephone: HOLborn 4972 FILM MAKING FOR THE UNITED NATIONS By THOROLD DICKINSON Head of United Nations Film Services United Nations Film Services work as uncompromisingly internationally as A.C.T.T. tries to work nationally. Our range of nationalities includes French, Czech, Indian, Jamaican, Russian, American and British. Each of the eighty-two nations has a quota of the staff of the whole organisation according to the amount of its financial contribution. The annual contributions of the member nations to the Film Services amount to an average of a little over two thousand dollars per nation. We scrape additional money by working for Specialised Agencies of the United Nations family like U.N.I.C.E.F. (The Children's Fund), or by publicising special projects like the UN Emergency Force in the Middle East; or by making joint productions with individual member states on subjects of mutual interest. Millions of Feet Our film library contains millions of feet of coverage from all over the world as well as coverage of meetings of the Security Council and the United Nations General Assembly. This historic material is available at the cost of a duplicate negative for any production or television programme consonant with the interests of the United Nations. Indeed, we give all the help within our scope to any producer whose interests coincide with ours. We also make films. In Haiti, earlier this year, we have been making a three-reel anecdotal about United Nations Technical Assistance work in introducing modern methods of co-operative farming. This was to form the second of three episodes designed to make up the first United Nations film of feature length, under the working title of Power Among Men. It is a study of postwar efforts to regain, to raise and to maintain standards of living in conditions of defence, agriculture and industry. The first episode takes place in a war-devastated village near Monte Cassino in Italy, the second in the agricultural highlands of Tahiti. The third is in a hydro-electric community at Kitimat, British Columbia. The epilogue is planned as an attempt to show what effect the use of nuclear energy can have on these and other communities if shared under international control. We have completed a batch of more routine films and have also in hand a three-reel film which attempts to illustrate the services of the United Nations family of Agencies to the individual who asks for them through his Government, and it is quite a range of services, too. We try to keep away from the standard information film whose work, to my mind, is better done by the spoken or written word. We are trying to work through the emotions of the audience and we try to aim at a particular type of audience, suitable for the reception of the subject chosen. In the past there was a curious notion that any film should be applicable to any audience — a tall order in a world as varied as ours!