Photos: (main) L’ETERNAL RETOUR poster and (left to right) HETS (TORMENT, FRENZY), IVAN THE TERRIBLE, CITIZEN KANE
THE SEASON. “The 17th Season of the Edinburgh Film Guild opens at a time of new ideas and new opportunities. The season will include both the private Sunday performances of outstanding modern films and a series of revivals of famous films of the past. The Guild’s new premises at ‘Film House’ will enable other activities, including a Film School, to be undertaken.”
VENUE. Sunday performances were held at the Caley Picture House, Lothian Road.
FILMS INCLUDED. UNE FEMME DISPARAîT directed by Jacques Feyder. HETS (TORMENT, FRENZY), “a new film impressively in the tradition of the early Swedish cinema.” LAND OF PROMISE, “Paul Rotha’s stimulating argument about housing, discussing our homes as they were, as they are, and as they might be.” FRIC-FRAC, “a delightful French comedy” with Fernandel and Michel Simon. L’ETERNAL RETOUR, “Jean Cocteau’s modern version of the Tristan legend made during the German occupation of France, is a remarkable and fascinating film.” LES VISITEURS DU SOIR “is a new film by Marcel Carné.” IVAN THE TERRIBLE, “Eisenstein’s new historical spectacle.” Films being considered for revival included MASKERADE and “Orson Welles’s controversial” CITIZEN KANE. Short films included “new documentaries and other experimental work from Europe and America.”
FILM HOUSE. “The long search for a fitting and permanent home for the Film Guild has now ended with the purchase of a charming eighteenth-century house in Hill Street. Comprising four storeys the building will include, after reconstruction, offices, committee rooms, and a small theatre equipped with two 35mm sound projectors. This apparatus is the property of Campbell Harper Film Productions, who occupy the adjoining block, and a happy arrangement has been made whereby the Guild will have the use of the projectors in exchange for the use of the theatre.”
FILM SCHOOL. “As soon as the premises are ready, it is proposed to start a course of classes in sub-standard film projection
and film appreciation.” Note : “sub-standard” refers to film formats smaller than 35mm (i.e. 16mm and 8mm which were in widespread use in the consumer market)
- Note: Quotations are from the Edinburgh Film Guild Season Programme 1946-1947.
Below: Leafet of the Seventeenth Season 1946-1947 (click on the images to enlarge)
