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NEW FIELDS — NEW TECHNIQU
as means of entertainment and information, as long as it is not argued that this is the only thing they should ever be. But it is conceivable that talented individuals or groups could be encouraged to experiment and create in new directions, even if only on a small scale at first. Sixteen-millimeter film, for instance, would be adequate to start with and more economical than the standard size, for technical polish would not be the foremost aim. On the other hand, the utmost spiritual and creative freedom is essential.
Culturally, such a movement would be to the motion-picture industry what poetry and fine prose are to popular commercial publications or what fine arts are to commercial applied arts. From the industry's point of view, such a movement could be compared to the research laboratories supported by other large industries, without an eye to immediate profit, but with the prospect of opening new fields and methods of production.
Above all, it seems to me that the film, that unique new medium of communication, which our age has contributed to mankind and which so often has been called an art, should finally find its way to becoming really an art.
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ATOMIC SCRIPTS: INFORMATION OFFERED
A letter from the Federation of Atomic Scientists (1621 K St., NW, Washington 6, D. C.) — which comprises the Association of Los Alamos Scientists, the Association of Manhattan Project Scientists, New York City Area, the Association of Oak Ridge Scientists, at Clinton Laboratories, the Atomic Engineers at Oak Ridge, the Atomic Production Scientists at Oak Ridge, the Atomic Scientists of Chicago, as well as other wartime scientists,— informs us that this organization "will be glad to check atomic scenarios for scientific accuracy, furnish the names of California scientists who could assist in preparation of scripts," and lend its aid in any other manner to the proper presentation of atomic problems on the screen.
There are chapters of the Federation at various California universities, including one
, at Pasadena (California Institute of Technology). The latter is "particularly interested in educational and artistic work."
It is members of the Pasadena chapter who have been and are now working with the Hollywood Writers' Mobilization on its project for a transcontinental radio series on atomic energy. This project is taking rapid shape under the guidance of Abraham L Polonsky, screen and radio writer, in charge of the steering committee. Columbia Broad
; casting System has evidenced great interest in the series, for which six sample scripts are now being prepared by a group of writers including Jerome Epstein, Leon Meadow, Ranald MacDougall, William Robson, Richard Collins, David Hertz, Milton Geiger, Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee.
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