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October, 1940
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Sky-view from Fleet Street, photographed by ike autlior
trade union and political organization possible ; how all the great advances made in the last hundred years have been due to ceaseless and self-sacrificing vigilance. In May of tliis year the Workers Film Association for the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers released Tlie Builders, which prompted Hannen Swaffer, the famed English critic who openly disliked documentary films, to declare that he made an exception in favor of this one. The early trade union struggles, the Chartists, the persecution of the laboring folk, the Nazi-ish justice meted out, make this documentary more dramatic than the many books already published on the subject.
Additional films in production — according to latest reports they may have already been released — are films for the Air Ministry, on land reclamation, Scotland, the church in war-time, the merchant navy, the utilization of raw materials in the war efl:'ort, the police, welfare of the workers, health services, wartime cookery, national resources, women in industry, mother and child, home produced food, malaria control, the transfer of skill, British response to the German challenge, the Air Force, sea power, the civilian in war
time, and others not yet in the shooting stage. Thovigh this list is by no means the last word on the subject it will give the American reader an idea of the breadth and scope of work in progress.
In the 16mm non-theatrical field there is immense activity for fall and winter. A fleet of travelling projector units is being organized and film production for their special use includes twenty-four one-reelers com]3leted in September. In the early fall, according to present plans, sixty-five travelling units, each covering a circuit of six villages week by week, will be operating, each giving three shows a clay : morning to children (educational), afternoon to women (instructional), evening to mixed adults (entertainment feature and informational shorts). In addition there will be about fifty Regional Mobile Units, four to each of twelve Civil Regions, centered in cities, giving two or three shows a day to clubs and workers' societies. It is intended also to loan 100 projectors to libraries, museums, and welfare halls in urban districts, each to show a different program on alternate weeks. There will also be occasional special shows in movie theatres outside the normal opening hours.