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NEWS FILMS 165
determined the choice, the sequence, the cutting rhythm of the things he shows us. He is an artist who seems to yield himself up to objective impressions without looking for a link between them. But he himself supplies the link and his subjective self is the constructive principle on which the film is built. However faithfully he has taken his photographs, they are a deliberate selection, a selected world and this world is his own. Such 'factual' films are the most subjective of all films They will form the most significant, the richest, the most filmic art form of that lyrical film-poetry which is yet to be born.
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We are accustomed to see them at the beginning of film shows, just before the main feature comes on. To all appearances they are an innocent form of pictorial reporting. In fact they are the most dangerous instruments of propaganda. They are not put together by poetic, artistic subjectivity, as are the reality fragments of the 'cine-eye' — they express the intentions of the interests and power groups who pay for them. They lie even more boldly than the lying, distorting newspapers, for they appear to be objective and authentic photographic, records, a sort of pictorial diary of the age. They are really interesting and instructive only if we have the opportunity of seeing side by side, or rather face to face, news films made of the same events by groups hostile to one another. They show no similarity at all, although they purport to show the same things and what is truly characteristic of them and expressive in them is what they do not show.
One need only edit them a little, however, and they are completely transformed. Before Hitler's seizure of power, but when the Weimar republic was already on its last legs, a workers' film society was formed in Berlin. It arranged film shows and would have shown news-reels of its own, but the censorship banned them. So they bought old UFA news-reels, which had long finished their run and had been approved by the censorship in their time. From these we cut new reels. For instance, in the 'Dogs' beauty contest', overwhelmingly glamorous ladies held expensive lap-dogs in their arms. Next to this