Kinematograph Year Book 1947 (1947)

Trade Organisations. 115 Organising Secretary : Sinclair Road, M.A. Members : Basic Films. Documentary Technicians' Alliance. Films of Fact.. Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films. Merlin Film Company. Realist Film Unit. SevenLeague Productions. World-Wide Pictures. Objects : An official body representing the independent documentary film companies. Formed to promote and represent the interests of documentary film making at home and abroad, and to provide an information and consultant service about documentary film production and use. FILM COMMITTEE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTIFIC WORKERS. 15, Half Moon Street, London, W.l. Tel. : Grosvenor 4761. President : Prof. P. M. S. Blackett, M.A., F.R.S. Objects : This Committee of the above Association has operated for some years as an information centre for scientific film societies and others interested in the scientific film, for getting science represented as truthfully and as widely as possible on the screen. The Society publishes a graded list of scientific films, which carries over 400 entries, and from which local film societies and sometimes cinemas select programmes. Part of the Committee's objective is to keep watch on the accuracy of films which contain reference either to scientific laws, to the lives of scientists or any other aspects of science. To film producers who intend to touch on these subjects they offer the advice of scientists who are members of this Association. FILM INDUSTRY EMPLOYEES' COUNCIL. (The Association of Cine-Technicians, The Film Artists' Association ; Musicians' Union ; Electrical Trades' Union). 2, Soho Square, London, W.l. Tel. : Gerrard 8506-8. General Secretary : George H. Elvin, F.C.I.S. FILM INDUSTRY PUBLICITY CIRCLE. 52, Haymarket, London, S.W.I. Tel. Whitehall 5362. President : A. E. Newbould. Chairman : Mervyn McPherson. Hon. Secretary : J. Pole. Hon. Treasurer : Hugh Findlay. Constitution : The Circle has been formed to combine the responsible publicity directors and managers of producing, exhibiting and renting companies into an association designed to represent and protect the film industry as a whole in its public and Press relations. The Circle neither seeks nor desires trade union status, and will not affiliate with any trade union or similar body. Its aims shall be : — (1) To counteract propaganda hostile to the film industry ; (2) To cultivate and promote close and cordial relations with the Critics' Circle, and with editorial and advertising representatives of newspapers, etc. ; and to assist the industry as a whole in its relations with the Press and the public ; (3) To promote greater cohesion and unity of purpose and method between the three main branches of the industry, >so that it may be possible to achieve overall publicity campaigns for films throughout production, distribution and exhibition. (4) To incorporate the Central Clearing House, which for seven years has so excellently organised Press show arrangements, and in respect of them substituted order for chaos. FILM STRIPPERS' ASSOCIATION. 57, Buckland Road, London, E.10. Tel. : Leytonstone 1694. Chairman : F. J. Thurston Moon. Vice-Chairman : K. H. Watson. Hon. Secretary : W. T. Collins. Other Officers : B. J. A. Claudet, B. R. Dickens, A. Shallcross. FRENCH FILM DELEGATION. (Delegation a Londres de la Cinematographic Francaise) . 27, Queen Anne St., London, W.l. Tel. : Langham 4422. Director : Jean Huet. Objects : To facilitate liaison and exchanges between France and Great Britain in commercial and non-commercial spheres. The delegation is at the disposal of those associated with the film industry who wish to make applications to the French authorities for travelling export or import facilities.