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Journey Together

With Terence Rattigan and Gordon Jacob in the RAF. A film about the education of raw talent, made to illustrate the importance of air navigation. Boulting keys this to precision shots like landmarks amid a welter of difficult gearing in complex articulated sequences like the bombing run. On the other end of the stick is the image, a telling face or, to introduce the young Britons to an American flying school, an unfamiliar landscape reflected in a train window.

The serenity of Boulting’s diction is in the subtle appreciation of American and Canadian distinctions, for example. Kubrick remembered this film in Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

 

The Magic Box

A revue sketchbook full of cameos, produced for the Festival of Britain, from which emerges the birth of cinematography, or at least one variety of it, at the hands of William Friese-Greene, photographer and inventor.