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FILMS REFLECT the WORLD AT WAR A scene from “ The Foreman Went to France," showing Clifford Evans as the foreman with his laden lorry at a French quayside. Hr HE film Was played an enormously 1 important part in the present war- how important perhaps the majority of people will not realise until long after it is finished. During the Great War, the film was still in its childhood. We certainly had news- reels, but those who saw any of those very entertaining films made up of early films and newsreel shots will realise that even then the newsreel was iust an interesting supplement to the newspapers. The twenty years between has seen an immense expansion in its uses, particularly in the development of the “ documentary ” film. You may recall a story that one of Hitler’s means of “ persuading ’’ neutral countries to “ co-operate ” with the Axis was to give a banquet to the governing heads of a neutral country and then finish the entertainment by showing them a film of what happened to another neutral country that declined to agree to his demands. The German Propaganda Ministry was making great use of such films even before the war, when Germany was then making great efforts to increase its foreign exchange, and one of its ways was the supply of free films that extolled the various beauties and delights of Germany, to attract the tourist trade. Ronald Shiner, Martita Hunt, Wally Patch, Trevor, John Stuart, Frank Pettingell, Linden Travers, in The Seventh Survivor." Donald Stewart, Richard Greene and Carla Lehmann in the East End blitz scene in “ Flying Fortress." A scene from “ Unpublished Story ” —left to right, Claude Bailey as news editor, Valerie Hobson as a reporter, Henry Morrell as the astrologer and Richard Greene as the war corre- spondent returned from Dunkirk- PS 8 ! F