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"We can hold the road like an Alfa Romeo-we can take corners like a Jaguar ..

London Express Service

And now

off

in

his new

mobile

studio

FIRST picture of Giles at the drawing board

of his new mobila studio in which he now begins a trip across England. He is seen here entertaining Newsgirl Patricia Goddard--one of many visitors when the studio was parked near the rachig pits at Silverstone.

The Giles caravan will be an eye-catcher on the roads of Britain. It is lavially equipped (even to a bathroom to get the grime off when the day's work is done). Next stop is Biratford- on-Avon—and the linerary after that is open. THE GILES GUIDE TO BRITAIN will bring a refreshing touch of satire to the places that mean England to millions......

Watch for the first cartoon......

fo

R. M. MacColl leaves the films in some state of excitement

Hollywood takes on the Flying Saucers

-and invents THE THING

away. (Don't ask me hous they

:

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NEW YORK. Their radio signals are going Milky Way, weighing an, csil- HOSE flying saucers, mad and they put it down to a mated 200 tons-is of a nature which filled American mysterious plane crash 48 miles which explodes costly. It ex- skies and wasted put it down to this cause. Every plodes, newsprint 80 abundantly thing is explained at top speed not long ago, finally preyed in a thoroughly convincing form husky dogs howl miserably, the on the mind of producer Popular science jargon as party discern-deep down under you go along. Thirty seconds the le-a form some 8ft, long, Howard Hawkes to such later you've forgotten the ex-

an extent that he got go- planation).

ing and made one of tho

finest films of ..its kind Flattened

that I have ever seen.

It is called "The Thing," and WHEN they get to the spot, it comes

to Britain

soon (no

connection with that zany song),

But what is this? While the

(ra better explain here, because by now you must be wondering who plays whom, that the cast is made up of unknowns who all act beautifully.)

So they holek The Thing uß is a huge smear of and get it into the plane all there flattened metal, all frozen over. summed up in a huge block of They decide to melt the ice. ice so that you still cannot see Way up in Northern Alaska ("Thermite bombs, sir?"

it at all well. near the Arclic circle, there is "Naturally, lieutenant.") Bal a group of scientists and Ameri- this is an erior. The metal- can air force men doing ex- which is the debris of a plane perimental work it seems.

from somewhere east of the

IS THIS SUPER-CINEMA-

FRAME. FUNNELS

SOUND TO AUDIENCE

LOUDSPEAKERS

PROJECTION ROOMS

SCREEN

GROUND LEVEL-"

LOUDSPEAKERS

FILMS

CURVED FLOOR

THE MODEL for

FELEKINE DA

LOUDSPEAKERS

the FUTURE?

hidden the projection rooms under the floor of the circle:

CINEMA - OF THE - The all-British equipment Architect Dr Wells Coates has FUTURE, in which TV, claimed to be the most ad- ventriloquist sound vonced in the world-is now in effects, and optical illusions action. combine to give up-to-the- I saw three-dimensionat pic minute entertainment in

atures which seemed to leap out most lifelike form, has been of

the screen and hang sus- built at the Festival of pended over the stalls.

Back to the base with it. Here there begins the start of pn intriguingly topleal quarrol be- tween the handsome air force captain and the bearded head of the scientista as to the correct thing to do when you meet A Thing.

Kill I say the alrmen. It looks vaguely nasty. PIC- posterous, cry the scientists. Preserve it for study. We may well be making history!

-

The fun

• •

LISTENING to all this are a

shapely young woman, who conducts a way super-flirtation with the handsome captain (slacks and a sweater), and a cynical but lovable newspaper reporter who has somehow wandered north.

The fun really begins when The Thing gets prematurely thawed out of his ice by on electric blanket. In short, order:

IT KILLS several husky dogs for their blood.

GETS an arm torn off but grows itself another:

KILLS two of the party and hangs them in the greenhouse upside down, end...

PROVES impervious to a hall of Tommy gun bullets. The heavy TV equipment

All this to the accompaniment housed in the front rejection of as unearthly

a series of rcom is mounted on rails, 50 bellows and howls, as ever put |feeding time in the lions' house when the twin three-dimen- at the Zoo to shame. sional Alm projectors arc. Britain exhibition in Lon- In a highly coloured cartoon, brought into play.

.don.

The peril of the new

tiny atom bomb

THE new

atomic

lightweight

by the bomb, the basic method of making Military Correspondent which, was disclosed last

bomb, is much has

original atom month,

altered

lighter than the first bomb's American, British,.

and 4 tons. Western European strategic plans.

First news of the bomb was

glvon in the report of the US. Atomic Energy Congress Com- mittee Од Soviet Alomie Espionage.

This report discloses not only that Amerles has the bomb but that Russia will have it in service soon,

LIGHTWEIGHT

aro

be

And these bombs can carried by fighters. A light bomber might carry enough to devastate a city and a heavy bomber might knock out a dozen eilles in one mission.

They could also be used in the warheads of V2 rockets.

Recently the air chiefs of staff of the

U.S.. Canada, Great Britain and France met in Washington dor à ten-day con- ference.

world's two great long-range bombing forces:

snakes inter- twined

fantastic danco over our heads. During & shot of a Zoo sea- Hom

diving people drow back insting- tively for fcar

of being splashed.

that it can be wheeled away

CHAPMAN PINCHER,

COLUMN

These throw PLAYING what they hope is

their trump card, the party out two pic-throws flaming petrol over The tures which Thing. No effect. overlap slightly

on the screen

"Gentlemen," says the head scientist, "this is vegetable tissue. We are dealing with a vegetable perhaps a hundred times ab Intelligent as we are,"

Then comes a terrific moment. 50 that they They are analysing its detached Jook blurred to arm on the operating table when the naked eye. It starts to move. When „viewed through the spectacles a single clear picture in deep perspective is seen. The equipment made "three- Closing one eye destroys this dimensional" music, which illusion. IN THE WEST, the U.E.A.F. synchronised with the move- Strategie

* Air Command, ments of the film, At

The three-dimensional sounds one technically called stereophonic equipped with 10,000-mile-range

the music seemed to sounds are made by 24 loud-rics. Consolidated B.30% and 6,000- moment

above. then speakers behind the screen, in mile-range Boeing B.50 Super- be coming from

from behind us, then from the the roof and at the back of the IN THE EAST, the Soviet Air | back of the screen.

cinema. Force's Long Range Air Force, equipped with 3,000-mile-range

These automatically sychro- The brightest and biggest TV

nise with the picture as it coples of the American Bocing pictures I have ever seen were B.29 Superfort.

moves about In this Woy produced.

words can be attached" to an actors mouth as he crosses the

forts.

They

15ft.

were

screed,

"An

The reporter cluiches his head. Intellectual carroti ho. "The mind boggles!"

Fiercer

HE struggle between air force and science on whether to preserve or attempt to annihilate The Thing grows flarcér.

The whole of Europe is within.

o! the Russlan atom square and flicker-free. range bombers.

To get the three-dimensional There are only 200 American

This makes the speech more

Only minutes left now, gentle- B.30's capable of atom bombing effect I had to wear tiated realistic than In ordinary men. Russia direct from America. | stereoscopic spectacles.

talkies, where all the sound

The pergeant has an idea which comés from che

stationary be explains rapidly to the cap- which cost source. The spectacles, of the

tain.

the But by this time with the as the audience.

The rest of the American atom bomber force consists

B.50 units, which are highly 5s, a pair, were optimistically As white Venetian blinds handsome captain is as bemused

They had to realign top air mobile and rely on a ring of labelled "Not for sun-glare or tastefully decorated Drawings of the bomb polley and overhaul the aircraft bases 'round the Asian central night driving." The Festival Britannia symbol of the Fer- known to have been passed by production of the North Atloptie land mass-of which Europe is authorities have bought 9,000 fival clattered down over the There is some hasty work with US Army technician and spy Powers. Until the new bomb, geographically a part. David Greenglass to a second atomle air warfare was tied to The rapid creation of a large pairs, so that the 3,000 which screen I felt there was a great wires, and talk of hooking up futuro for elnema and the dynamos," Then here it spy, Julius Rosenberg, who in the big, long-range bomber be. Russian fighter force equipped will be used daily by visitors

stereophonic sound.

comes: tau gave them to the Soviet cause of the bomb-weight and with some 2,500 jet fighters had can be cleaned and disinfected Vice-Consul in New York,

the long distances to reach worried the United States Arefore re-issue. The new bomb, most important targels, | milliary development since the

Result was the creation of the

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FAST AND LOW

This midget "Telekinema" scats only 402 people, but I saw the show in great comfort. It is now doubtful whether Lieut-General Curtis E. LeMay, Tho familiar smoke-filled commander di the Strategic searchlight beaming from the

abolished.

But this system of showing stereoscopic films has scrious limitations.

Wearing the spectacles is a strain. And the illusion exag- gerates perspective BO much that it interferes with the enjoyment of the film once the

(London Express Strukce.)

Air Command, could guarantee projection room at the back of novelty has worn off.

his atom bombs to the circle has been

in his high-flying

their

to Vatively slow bombers.

but but

soniity of slinging the new

range

light

bomb on to short- bombers and fighter- bombers has made it feasible to send ralders into Russia, Aying fast and low to avoid defend-

Oghters.

But it has also opened up the possibilities of the Russians doing The same thing,

And the shorter ranges bring Ho atomic V2 into the picture.

Ranzo of the V2 is about 200 grillch Tunil : there is no known Protection: "If is--Jaunched tryin

and

easily hidden, bases dimenti tó at-

ans wat if would "any Swart Lessential into the qurvival »„óf Britain and Western, Europe that wift and successful counter- "Wilable could be launched against

Russia hergolf.

The alum bomb is not just the

|_ EDITORS. FRENO SERVICE, IKO,

TER KATERDAY STEMING FORF

best weapon for achieving this "Nothing like good old-fashioned home ooking

it githe only one

Longan”, Kxpress device)

It looks remarkably unlike a mangel-wurzel and remarkably like Frankenstein.

On-on. The handsome cap-, tain throws a switch-The Thing electrocuted down to nothing with hugo bolta of chain lightning before our very eyes, Vegetable fricassee,

You'll love it

FOR sheer speed ond often

completely convincþig hokum - you are going to love all this. There is a fantastic anti-climax when tho réportér, - having secured 'à'redićtdieplično circult to Fairbanks, Alaska, leads his,

boty with

To thousand years ago the world was saved by an Ark Noah's, Tanight the world has een saved once again by an are —or clotricity. (Whỳ đôri you, try a lend like that some Ume, BooCell Because I'd got fired, that's why,

But it does not mailer," It is wonderful. The play sithe thing, and In this instanco-The Thing makos a WonderGUI DIAY.

(Londen Esprem fervise):