World Film and Television Progress (1937-1938)

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(People with Purposes — contd.J NEWS NOTES In France several railway companies, especially the State organisation, are using films for instructing their workers. * * * Glasgow: The Corporation Health Committee has accepted the offers of Pathe and Paramount for the supply of sound films required at the mental hospitals. * * * Ireland : A sub-committee has been appointed to the Gaelic League to investigate the possibilities of launching an all-Gaelic film company. Films played an important part in this year's International Housing Exhibition in Dublin. Leeds : Open-air daylight shows have been given by the National Government touring van. * * # The Akele of Abeokuta visited Film House, Wardour Street, with a view to purchasing equipment for his council hall in Abeokuta. The hall holds over 1,800 people. * * * Stirling : A film, partly in colour, is being made of the work of restoring the ancient Church of the Holy Rood, for showing at the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow next year. * * * The Moscow Newsreel Studio has commenced production on a series of documentary sound films on Moscow. Studios of Moscow, Leningrad and Novosibirsk are making a number of educational films on Soviet geography. * * * The first railway travelling cinema coach to be used on the British railways has made more than 1,200 journeys and covered 250,000 miles; approximately 60,000 passengers have seen the programme, made up of sub-standard news and pictorial films (projected from the rear). The coach operates between King's Cross and Leeds on weekdays, and on excursion trains to Northern towns on Sundays. A second cinema coach has now been introduced on the King's Cross and Doncaster service. A mobile cinema van touring stations and depots to demonstrate instructional films of railway management to railwaymen, introduced last November, has travelled 7,000 miles, visited 68 stations and depots, and given 450 performances to more than 12,000 members of the staff. * * * A talkie set has been installed at the George Shepherd Convent in Belfast. Hitherto the convent has been content with hiring a portable set at intervals — but in view of the success it has had, the full set has been purchased. * * * The Moscow Technical Film Studio has started two films on football. One is designed to acquaint the public with the basic principles of the game, the other is a full-length instructive film to improve the play of less-experienced teams. * * * Dr. Martin Leake of Cambridge University recently asked Gaumont-British Instructional to make a slow-motion film of a new pattern seeddrill which was theoretically perfect, but which in practice developed a fault that prevented the emission of seeds. The slow-motion film revealed the cause of the difficulty, thus enabling the mechanism to be perfected. * * * Six farms in the Lothians provided the locations for A Pure Milk Supply, a film made by members of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland Agricultural College, and directed by Dr. Andrew Cunningham. Dr. J. E. Gordon acted as cameraman. The film provides an authoritative account of the production of milk, coupled with an urgent appeal for cleanliness. Messrs. F. G. Warne, Ltd., are making a 16 mm. film for the Bristol Development Board, which will be entitled Bristol, City of a Thousand Years. Mr. D. F. Taylor is making a film of Bath for the Travel Association. * * * The Police Surgeon of Hull, Dr. John Cumming, has made a film featuring the city's constabulary. It will be preserved at headquarters as a record for future screenings. A new film of the Oxford Group movement, made at the recent demonstration at Utrecht, Holland, had its first screening in Britain at a private display in Edinburgh. The audience comprised Scottish members of the Group. * * * G.B. Equipments, Ltd., have installed talkie apparatus in two of the League of Nation's conference halls. Their contract called for apparatus of the portable type for both 35 mm. and 16 mm. films, in addition to complete full-sized permanent plant. A series of three travel films, We Three in Argyll, Honeymoon Cruises, and The Road Through the Isles, is being made by Mr. J. C. Elder and his wife, of Elder-Dalrymple Productions, for Messrs. MacBraynes of Glasgow, the West Highland Steamship Company. Mr. and Mrs. Elder are shooting in the highlands. Cadbury's Film Library 35 MM. SOUND ON FILM The Night Watchman's Story, 6.500 ft. (73 mins.). A film about the cocoa and chocolate industry showing how cocoa beans are grown and harvested on the Gold Coast and how they are used in making cocoa and chocolate at Bournville. Country Fare, 1,700 ft. (19 mins). A documentary film on some aspects of agriculture, such as the production of eggs, milk and barley to meet the growing demand for foods of this kind. Work-a-day, 3,000 ft. (34 mins.). This film describes the workings of a modern food factory and shows the provisions made at Bournville for the recreation of employees. Fascinating Facts, 750 ft. (8 mins.). A "believeit-or-not" film, presenting some of the surprising facts and statistics about the Factory in a Garden. The Gold Coast, 1,800 ft. (80 mins.). A film about native life and industries on the Gold Coast of British West Africa. 16 MM. SOUND ON FILM The Night Watchman's Story, 4 reels (45 mins.). A shortened version of the 35 mm. film described above. The Gold Coast, 2 reels (20 mins.). See description above. Fascinating Facts, 1 reel (8 mins.). See description above. 16 MM. SILENT The Night Watchman's Story, 4 reels (45 mins.). Abridged edition. *Country Fare, 2 reels (20 mins.). Abridged edition. * Work-a-day. 2 reels (20 mins.). Abridged edition. Cocoa from the Gold Coast. 1 reel (8 mins.). A teaching film. * Agriculture, 1 reel (8 mins.). A teaching film. 9.5 MM. SILENT A Day at Bournville, 1 reel (15 mins.). The Cocoa Bean, 1 reel (15 mins.). ^Country Fare, 1 reel (15 mins.). * In course of preparation. QUALITY IS IMPORTANT . . . And for a quality job you cannot do better than call in the BRITISH ACOUSTIC RECORDING SERVICE-as did Paul Rotha for his successful film " To-day We Live." 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