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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1958.

THEY MAKE FACTS MORE ROMANTIC THAN FICTION

By JOHN MARTIN

Producer of many British décumentarica,

IF you can put personality into

a petrol pump and invest the progress of a conveyor belt with the excitement of a car chase you are well on the way to becoming a successful producer of indus- trial documentary films.

The pure documentary Alm was once the glory of Butch picture-making. It was also the training ground for Britain's best 1m tcehnicians. The demand for these films hra tnded--their probing, exploring eye has been taken over by television,

But the industrial firms wlih comeone to teach and products to sell have discover- ed this powerful medium and use it with

rat effect.

BIG BUSINESS

Ever since the Amerleon anny decided recruits responded to small amme Instruction given ca the screen by Mickey Mouse, the ilm as played its part in specialised tumin- ing.

Sairs organisations were quick to appre- ciate at the skilled visur presentation of their products on the cinema screen broke down language barriers.

The new-type documentary film-once

the most esoteric branch of plélure-maklig -bas gone into big business and become big businest,

This patranake by industry has kept alive one of the most in- ventive and vicile branches of

our picture-making-in fact, our Industrial documentaries seem to be the only aims we produce wow cupable of winning prizes at the international Alm tivals,

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big company

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lands. You have just installed expensive

and

revolutionary new electronic equipment.

THE NEW DEPARTURE IN DOCUMEN. TARIES: the shooting for a film commis- sioned by the British Trawlor Federation moves inside the studio, with sets built as for an ordinary fiction film.

Britain's young men led the revolution

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many others was to show that what Britain were the direct result of the, was Oghting for was picacering work done by men while. ike Basil Wright, John Grjerson, Paul Rotha and Harry Watt nal inexpensive with their Alms.

ROUND-UP

BREECHES BIBLE

"prid

CANON William Luminis, vicar of Bungay, Suffolk, has bought a

Brooches Bibloo velted bocaque, at the plumse meda themselves breeches" in Gonegis ILI, 7-for the Pedony Church of St May, Bungay, it contaires a Concordance witn Numorous Cntries about the Atkinson family of Bungay batween 1080-1810, "I am glad it has gone to Bungay," the previous owner, Brigadier E. Nott-Bower, of Colyford, Devonshire, wrote to Me Lammis. " was found in a oseret drawer of an old piece of furniture which my mother-in-law bought at a sale many yezes aga," Ora omntry records that 14-year-oki Micha Aukinson I in July, 1723, a woek after becoming UI through running a rece on Bungay Common.

RHEUMATISM CURE?

[TWO mobile laboratories, staffed by members of the Malical Research Departments of Manchester Univemity and by the Empire Rheumatism Council Field Unit, are touring Yorkshire, attempting to find out how many farm wikira suffer from choumalism. It is believed, says a courtall speltesman, thút taITH workers sulfer more from riseuinatism than any other class except perhaps miners. Dr J.S. Lawrence, director, of the Bold anál, sąd that to a result of their Inquiries it would be possible to say, what percentage of form waripers have rheumatism, which kind a mont common, wholher or not it tends to rúm ko families, the ears at which cheumatism usually appears, and other foto.

VETERAN FIREMAN

FIREMAN who used to run to Ares as a boy behind a horse- A drawn engine, has been prosented with a long-service medal ad Ipswich. He is Me Percival Woods, of Debenham, Suffolic, a sub- officer with the East Suffolk and Ipswich Fire Brigade. Mr Woods, a fromen for 22 years, used to fccompany his fireman father to ties to help main the pumpe.

HISTORY FOR KENT

THE 1,000-year-old history of the Kent village of Mcopham will be told at a "Son et Lumiere" siyle pageant ka- tis grðunda of copham Count on September 18, 19, 20.. Moopiam Court dates back to Saxon times. The village has a centuries' od ohurch in which the Cromwellian General Fairfax, stabled his horses' and billebed his men

An the night before the Battle of Makisano. episode will be devoted to the famous. Tradesetent family, Meopham gardeners, who introduced many plants to this country. Script for the pageant has been written by Miss Mary Jean Hasic, a member of Meopham Anglican Young People's Associalon, in collaboration with Mr Norman Warehamn, leader of the A‚Y.P.A, and his wife. DOWNLAND ESTATE

were none the less In the gameTHE 1,027-acre Sussex downland estate of Muntham Court at tradition. (The Way Ahead,1 Findon, is being sold for the second time in four months. I Millions Like Us, Waterloo belonged to the late Colonel Uric Thyme, a former member of

Road).

the

The film of this period are

Today Britain is still in still, in many ways, the most authentic pictures of war to forefront of the documentary have been made anywhere. movement, A young English

director, Lindsay Anderson, What these Hollywood enter- Those who saw them will nat

impact of won the Grand Prix: at tho tainment fims had in common easily forget the with the British documentaries Target For Tonight, Britain Can Venice Film Festival last

1 documentary ubout was a hungry eye for the pic- Toko M, Western Approaches, for turesque element in the every One Of Our Aircraft Is Miss- Covent Garden. day; the back streets, the docking.

And In yards, the tenement buildings," the urchin children playing in came the gutters.

AUTHENTIC

minute full

especially colour nim of the fishers, not an

spiring subject, has always, and steel industry.

considered been The cartoon gives the alm rightly, Your inve two big tasks ahead

There were many of you: fo teach your workers maker the power of the pointer classic.

alt dealt with Previously, was considered and to strip his subjects of all others. They

effective to shoot to use the new machines to let the

carloom aspects of everyday life-their much more how inessentials, it world know

tilles are self-expinnatory: against sels created by a highly Today this eficiently and progenively that Barclays Bank used to ex-

of their Nightmail. Shipyard,, Coalface., paid art director.

sya'em has been largely aban- you are making your product, plain the workings

10 uninitiated West the banks The new la provides

doned and It Is generally cepted that the real thing 13 means to do both,

superior lo anyang an ari

ESSENTIAL

Africans.

The industrial documentary without film producers work star names or ballyhoo but they are a powerful part of the ever Colour in illms has taken on expanding world of the cinema.

rise nów guiaconee with the

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EXPERIMENT

These films, made just before director can dream up.

It was during the war the war, were able to

way

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that its

Film

ment with dlm technique in a the documentary reached

that The entertainment highest prak. Under the Paradoxically, the docu clemu did not dare to do, auspices of the Crown of the indistrul documentary, mentary im

made very They showed life as it really unl several of the men who no longer merely enhances often for such very cominer- was and their uctors were or-

were to become Britain's most with realistic

decorous cial-rounding concerns as the dinary people.

intented artists and technicians qualilien. To a business nan Empire Marketing Board or the And from this field cante

got their first chance. directors, dedicated trying to sell paint or fabrics GPO has always been parti- school of the colour film is an essential. cularly cherished by the cinema to realm, which had a girl.

Une of my units is now highbrows.

Ing effect on the entertainment broadest

was Naked but it working with

and the Iron

Drifters, which cinema, Flims such as A film like told the

in palatable kind since story of heering City, Northside 777, Panic

Steel Feduralion making

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sense propaganda; propaganda of

Its object

EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY THE BELLS PAY TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY ALL OVER THE WORLD

What Next

Along The Lines

Of Communication?

OVERWORKED heads of departments who are

prone to rant and fume at their cluttered desks every time their telephone rings may well give their blessing to a new device one which dispenses with the need for writing down a directive that has to be circulated to their staffs.

The device is called the Tole

He was out alone in the lask

By

D. Alasdair Keenan

technicians l' apply their over the world give ringing minds to ways and means of tribute to his memory every

Beil's Invention

Arup, and is an up-to-the- he had sat himself. In fact, there developing Alexander Graham hour of every day.

minute business 'gadget."

was a race in progress as to who should be the first to In- Connected to the telephone, it "troduce the telephone and qeta like ап

For some years now, the idea of a Viphone has been widely

amplifer Bell only beat s keen rival, discussed. Before very long wo bartspeaker, and by means of i Professor Elleba Gray, by 鶴 may well be seeing in a small the gist of a conversation can be

screen, the face of the

persai breadcast throughoul office or workplace.

matter of hoom.

So close was the registration of patcols by the two men that

to whom we are talking.

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Indeed, many Lucvations On the face of it this gadget an inevitable lawsuit developed, such as the Visiphone are al can be a decided boon to a hard- a lawsuit eventually won by the the present moment technically pressed businessman. But let to Scots-American.

possible, but lack of public de businessmana forget that the

and the high cost telephone itselt is the greatest of He had to fight a good deal of mand

Inatolico make them in D workaday public resentment in order to world--an Instrument of vital push his invention any further practical just now. Soportance so often taken for than the laboratory. There are granted, and too often soundly outsed.

time-savers

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Always member of any com munity who will secle to retard selenife progress, it seems..

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Finally, however, in 1878, the

Meanwhile trunk dialling is first telephone exchange

on the way, and it is hoped dialling established, in the town of New that intercontinental Haven, Connectlétat, and from will come about In the face- that time onwards the telephone cable future. wires began to stretch: across the

face of the work

Thero are testy individuals

It was certainly a lucity day for mankind when the telephone first side is bow in Boston,

"'brain-child" USA - α

In the United States alone, the who say of the telepohne that Alexarxlor Graham Bell who had migrate thefo from his number of telephones owned in it has increased the pace of

of creased In

a matter of 60 Ute too much and has brought native Scution by

3ears to 31,300,000, and by the other disadvantages that outs Canada,

end of the 19th century almpat weigh its usefulness, but most. Bell had for some years been every country in the elviled of us will grant that it was a studying the transmission of world possessed a sizable net- blessed day when Me Alexan

der. Bell strode from sound. To quote his own words: work

a current of Telephones improved in design laboratory with "It I could make

4 glint of electricity vary in intensity year by year, as did tho`argange. achievement in his cyb

He was a great man, a man' precisely an air varies in density meals at the exchango Nowa- during the production of sound days you might think there to be remembered and I should be able to transmit could be little scope for improvemembered he will be so long

peech telegraphically.

ment, and yet researchers and as millions of telephones all

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With its Lendency forwarde the wake of them understatement, the document-

that could films strictly he regarded as docu-, gry is peculiarly suited to the mentaries since they had pro- English talent. fessional actors them-but

(London Express · Service).

the King's Bodyguard. Ils two eons, Brian and Oliver, sold the catale to a proponty company after putting it on the market last May. Now the company has decided to put it up for auction Worthing Town Hall, The estate includes a 40-room residence, and coltages which some of the tenants may buy. Biggest part of

he land is the 800-acre farm which will remain lot. HOME-MADE WINE

BEDFORDSHIRE housewives have been entering for shows home made wines made of beetroot, carrots, paranips, mengolch, potatoes, rhubarb oranges, blackcurrants, cowslips, wheat, elder Bowers, marigolds, plums, pineapples, barley, dandelions, shoes and Turley. A Bedford show offteizi said that the wines were being made from old recipes in increasing quantities because they were so popular at television evenings.

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