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By Harold Conway
REVOLUTION in picture-
Hitchcock's new order is the stage sense born of tong experience making is now making writing on the wall for many fim can hope to survive. As for some these charm-school graduates, performers even stars-who cannot of screen history at Elstree, memorise even three-minute scenes they will have to retire from the This is the "ten-minute take" without continual "fluffing” and con- scene hurt-ng so many silent stars
did when the talkies arrived. system devised by Alfred Hitch-.sequent retakes.
When I was in the Elstree studio If the method being used for cock-which blows sky-high the
"Under
becomes Lo a few days ago, Alfred Hitchcock Capricom" existing idea that films can only general rate, only those actors and directed scene lasting without, a be made in hundreds of snippety actresses with the ligheat intelll break for nine and a half minutes- three-minute sequences or less, gence, dependable memories and a
longest sequence yet ilimed by a movie camera dia any country. Hitherto, three-minute "takes" have
considered good going.
Lo
OTSIN-YU, the famous Chinese film director, and his equally famous actress wife, Lily Lee, photographed on a studio set in England with stars Sarah Churchill and Norman Wooland and director Derek Twist (right). Mr Lo and his wife are studying film work in Britain at the invitation of the British Council.
ROYAL COMMAND
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She has just returned to London,
Bergman and Michael two of the story in "Under Capricorn," played the scene; during Its pregress Miss Bergman is a re- formed dipsomaniac, had one non- stop speech of 560 words. (Hamlet's longest soliloquy contains 486). She spoire them without a single. Inpse of memory It is called in the stuilio "Bergman's Arla."
At the end of the tensest ten minutes I have seen in a film studio, Hitchcock said "Cut" and there Was applause from all the techni- clans. A revolution in picture- making had been achieved.
Uninterrupted Vision
By his new technique, Hitchcock Is abolishing the screen's biggest artificiality the continual jumping of the camera's (and spectator's) eye from one angle and from one face to another. Here the line of vision will be uninterrupted-as though the audience were moving continually among the characters.
Months of minute paper planning went into this naturalistic method of picture-making. Indeed, Hitch- cock tells me that by far the major part of his own work was complete Once before entering the studio.
the blueprint stage and the re- hearsals were complete, there re- mained little for him to do-except to keep his fingers crossed every time the came
camera began turning.
The all-but-ten-minutes' take saw represents the maximum effort; average length of unbroken scenes is working out at six minutes,"
Essential to the new method are scenery and furniture which can be moved by the pressing of an clee- trle button to allow the camera
attribution pio
I has been announced tot Of to and that the picture's showing The Antarctic," has been chosen the Venice Festival has earned her for the third Royal Command the highest praise yet given to a performance on November, 29.
Antarctic"
British screen actress. Moira is pleased-but unconvinced.
Hollywood.
One scene I saw showed Michnel leaping over a balcony, Wilding entering a french window and ap- proaching a canopied bed on which Miss Bergman was lying.
As
and property men had been as care- For this sequence, the technicians them fully rehearsed as the netisis.
the camera followed for
the balcony parapet was lowered, the windows swung apart, even the canopy above the bed swung Up-
The Orst Command Alm was On her doormat she found letters Rank's "A Matter Of Life And containing offers of contracts from Death" the second. was "The British flm companies and from Bishop's Wife."
ot Any one The proceeds of the performance would bring her more money will go to charity.
a single month's work than she can "Scott Of The
stors Bond, James earn with the Sadler's Wells Ballet John Mills, Derek Robertson Justice. Reginald Beck in a year. with, Diana Churchill, Anne Firth, Dennis Vance and Christopher Lee, and was produced by Sir Michael Balcon. The story is of Scott's last which expedition to the Antarctic, took place between 1910 and 1013.
B
Molra has said "No, thanks" to all these offers. She intends doing nothing but ballet for soine years; then, possibly, she will undergo a
dramatic training.
course
Most screen aspirants have to try to persuade producers that they can ALLET dancer Molea Shearer act. In this case it is the heads of left for a holiday in Switzerland British and Hollywood studios who The Immediately after the premiere of have to do the persuading. "The Red Shoes" had made her young dancer does not consider she the most-discussed new film star of is good enough yet,
recent years.
NO CAREER WOMAN IS A
MA
Mr Wilding,
wards to allow the camera to travel under it and up to the pillow.
THIS IS SIX FILMS
IN ONE
By STEPHEN WATTS.
TARLENE DIETRICH is going to THE Italian film "Palsa”—one of
the
time great Bims of our London; if she agrees terms may have a far-reaching effect on gets the dramatic relo in a film the cinema. The factor is that called "World Premiere"-her first "Paisa” is not so much a foreign
"Knight British studio role since
dim ng an international film.. Without Armour" in 1937. Her co- star is to be Pierre Brasseur, French stage and screen netor who was to
GOOD WIFE good in "Enfants du Paradis."
By PATRICIA CLARY
No career
A
woman can make good wife, says Brian Aherne. who was once married to one.
"I'm convinced that no marriage can be a success unless the woman is prepared to put her home, her husband and her marriage Arst and he said, everything else second," adding that marriage Is a carcer In itself.
.
"Being a good wife requires as much thought, effort and persistence as any business," he continued.
The characters speak whatever language is natural to them or to the context. Thus 75 percent of the dialogue is In English; German and a little French are also spoken, as well as Italian.
It seems such a simple, natural QILVER Lining" the life story of thing to do, and it is typical that the the late Marilyn Miller, perhaps man to do it should be Roberto the most famous of Ziegfeld's Rossellini, who, since he emerged dancers, has had its preview in with "Open City" as the leader of Hollywood. June Haver is the star, the remarkable postwar renaissance whilst Mecen Graham who wag of Italian Airas, has ignored conven- Marilyn's closest friend,
was tions and cut now paths En film- technical adviser on the production. making.
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In design, "Palsa" Is thoroughly unconventional. It consists of six WITCHING. around the usual separate short stories. Their only procedunt, a Hollywood bride- link in that they follow the progress the groom-to-be is decorating the honey-of the American forces in
apartment. He's moon
Audie Italian campaign. Murphy, who has the reputation of
Each episode is entirely different than A wife must give a mun com- having been gonged" more
the next In style and panionship. comfort, sympathetic any other U.S. soldier in the late from understanding and help when the war. The bride-to-be. Ittle Wanda substance, but each is perfect in its The way. The first, in Sicily, has u going gets rough. A career woman Hendrix, is in Italy making
Prince of Foxes" with Tyrone Pow-and an Italian girl who is left in memorable scene between a G. L is too wrapped up in her
It."
er, but will return in December business to have time for
Her first film his charge. He knows no Italian, Aherne, who is playing with Con- for the wedding.
Bob Montgomery with
inand his umlable, blundering attempts stance Bennett and Barry Sullivan part,
created to carry on a conversation are funny in "Smart Woman," a movie about "Ride, The Pink Harse,"
and touching. The end is sudden, woman, says making a quite an impression.
uncompromising and tragic. ́ a carcer home demands as great an ability as making a career.
Joy And Chaos
Wives Must Know
OWN
The same qualities demanded by business are also required by well-run household, he said.
A woman must know how to a budget shop well, how to handle and have an excellent laowledge of
"Sho must be He later appeared at the Town values," he said. butcher, baker and condlestick Hall with a 32-ion tank in front of and do with a budget what the stage and a 3.7. anti-aircraft maker, a business man does with his assets. gun backstage.
and "If a wife can't do all this can't provide the thinking and
then the planning necessary. will go in the red quickly. Even among people who finances catise most of the "-444 |
house
His guard of honour consisted of eight cinema usheretics drawn up formation in front of the microphone.
In
CHEERING crowds greeted Ri-
chard Attenborough when ho The Naples sequence, between 'a toured Leeds City in a Comet tank tough little boy and Negro, nts to support the Territorial Army the same adjectives, funny and recruiting drive recently,
The Rome story points touching. -The band of the 45th Royal Tank sharply the difference between the Regiment led the procesalon through first tresh joy of liberation and the the city.
bitter chaos of six months Inter this, Moria Michi draws a wonderful wrong. girl gone portrait of a
There is O gentic, without a speck of sentimentality.
exquisitely polsed incident in a monastery, and finally a grim picture of partisan fighting in the desolate Po marshes, Germans, paya This indicts the tribute to the lonely, desperately bravo partiearis, and somehow con- veys that most real yet Intangible Ke added that
espect of war-the confusion, and Incompatibility
THE now comedy "Fools Rush In" essential fuillity in which men per- was a clong second.
Twill give daughters of two Eng-severe and "And that develops easily among couples no wrapped up in their in-ah stage celebrities their chance.
It is important to emphasise that dividual
are They are Sally Ann Howes, 10- carcars. that they to give the Ume and con-year-old daughter of Bobby Howes. the over-all effect of "Palca" is not have been unable
Raine, daughter of depressing. It would
better if we had seen it earlier, but alderation married people must give and Patricia
it is important that everybody who to each other."
should soo cares about film Few films have seid so much about war--and about humanitynd nover with moro perceptive reality and economy.
Aro
Ahorne is happily married now to the former Eleanor de Llagre, sister
Binnie Hale.
Sally Ann Howes will have the part of a girl who changes her mind of New York producer Alfred do on her wedding day. Pat Raine 1s Llagre. His first wife was actress the bride's mother. She played the Joon Fontaine.
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