FILM INSTITUTE
' At a recent meeting held in the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery, to an audience which filled the lecturehall, the Wellington Film Institute presented a programme of films illustrating "Man the Builder." The longest and most remarkable film, in 16 mm. sound, described fairly completely the building of Boulder Dam, a gigantic undertaking in which many of the episodes appear like scenes from some mythical world. Another was a new 35 m.m. sound film shortly to be released by Universal Pictures, describing the mechanisation of New Zealand Public Works, with interesting shots of big machinery at work on roads, railways, landing grounds, and irrigation channels. > "A Trip Through Walt Disney's Studios" showed all the steps in the making of a coloured "Silly Symphony," or a full-length feature such as the coming "Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs," It was followed by a coloured cartoon, which appeared, however, to be made from a succession of models rather than drawings. After the notable John Grierson documentary "Coal Face," a sympathetic and imaginative treatment of life in and about the coal-mines of England, and the educational short, "Shelter," the programme concluded with "Our Daily Bread," a very creditable film made by the Government Film Studios for the New Zealand Wheat Research Institute.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 148, 25 June 1938, Page 13
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