Focus: A Film Review (1948-1949)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

FOCUS Christmas and the Cinema LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Bv Sir Michael Balcon Film Glossary By Andrew Buchanan Film Reviews By Our Panel of Priests Give Us This Day In the Good Old Summertime Prince of Foxes Everybody Does It Little Women The Big Steal Home of the Brave The File on Thelma Jordon Pursuit Tokyo Joe The Interrupted Journey ... 341 Mighty Joe Young 341 The Search 342 Page Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer ... 346 The Crooked Way ... 346 Landfall ... 347 The Velvet Touch ... 3471 L’Aigle a Deux Tetes ... 348 Une Si Jolie Petite Plage ... ... 348 Entre Onze Heures et Minuit . . 349 Red, Hot and Blue . . 350 Streets of Laredo . . 350 East of Java . . 350 American Protestant Films ... 349 Filming in Fatima ... ... 351 Penny A Day Fund ... 352 Institute Notes . . 353 Letters to the Editor ... 354 Geographical Film Strips By Our Educational Panel ... 355 Some Films Reviewed ... 357 Book Review . ... 360 CONTENTS Page . 331 . 332 334 336 336 337 338 338 339 339 339 340 340 FOCUS — Annual Subscription: 7s. (post free). Single Copy: 7d. (post free). Glasgow agents: Messrs. James Reilly and Co., 81 St. Vincent Street. Glasgow, C.2. Liverpool agent: T. J. O’Brien, I SB Lower Lane, Liverpool, 9. FOCUS— May be obtained from: The Manager, “The Blue Cottage,” 69 Sumner Place Mews, London, S.W.7. Telephone: Kensington 6849. Duckett, 140 Strand, London, W.C.2. Telephone: Temple Bar 3008/9. Catholic Truth Society, 28a Ashley Place, London, S.W.l. Michael White, 15 Broad Street Place, London, E.C.2. Telephone: London Wall 1389. C.F.I. PUBLICATIONS WHY A CATHOLIC FILM SOCIETY? The Story of the Film Apostolate in England. By Rev. J. A. V. Burke. Price 1/4 THE SACRIFICE WE OFFER f The Story of the Film. Complete Commentary by Rev H. McEvoy, S.J. Edited by J. A. V. B. Illustrated. Price 1/ CATHOLICS AND THE CINEMA By Freda Bruce Lockhart. A Reprint of The Tablet article. Price Id.