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Snow is attracting more and more attention in the U.S., and his latest novel-No. 8 in the projected cycle-is a June Book-of-the-Month. Even his fans admit that he is a pedestrian writer, a precise but prosaic documentarian. What makes Snow fascinating to many readers is his subject-the infighting that goes on along "the corridors of power," and the sort of cold, uncivil war that rages between what Snow labels the Two Cultures-traditional and scientific...
Year ago, hired by the U. S. Rural Electrification Administration, Documentarian Ivens marched his crew onto the small dairy and crop farm of lean, leathery William Parkinson in the rolling hills of eastern Ohio. Purpose: to show the rich rewards brought to the Parkinsons by the Federal Government's rural-electrification program. During the first half of Ivens' casual 36-minute report, the Parkinsons plod through their chores with such outmoded equipment as kerosene lamps, a wood-burning stove, a backyard privy, an old hand pump to the water well. One day the farmers are told about...
Directed by Documentarian John Taylor, with Poet W. H. Auden contributing to its commentary, The Londoners contains no boosts for the gas company but devotes all its footage to London, before and after L. C. C. days. Its staging of Dickens' day is more stagey than Hollywood's, but in its prying around modern London it uncovers much straight, unsugared stuff. It explores sagging flats, unkempt streets, records the pallor and pinch of slumdwellers' faces. The commentary: "Democracy means faith in the ordinary man and woman, in the decency of average human nature. Here then in London...
...University, now in its first year; 3) Columbia's new studies in "History, Aesthetic and Technique of the Motion Pictures." Most searching of these was Columbia's, listed in the University catalog as "Fine Arts em1-em2," conducted by Film Librarians Abbott & Barry with Paul Rotha, British documentarian, and invited technicians. Also most compact, it started off last week with 38 selected students...