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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.