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THE Federation of Documentary Film Units, which was set up in the middle of 1945 as a consultant and information organisation representing eight of the leading independent units making documentary and educational films, is issuing a regular Bulletin which will deal in turn with the use of films in health and medicine, industry, education, food and agriculture, architecture and housing. The periodical will attempt to report progress in providing films to meet specific needs in these fields, and will record work being carried out by professional and research institutions in assessing available films and will outline films made or in production. The first to be issued, dated January 1946, attempts to give some of the background information, outlining the system of sponsorship under which the making of documentary films has been carried out from the start. The Federation is organised to survey the requirements of potential sponsors, to advise on subjects, indicate production facilities and costs, and channels of distribution available. Inquiries relating to the making and showing of all types of factual films will be welcomed and should be addressed to the Organising Secretary, 18 Soho Square, London, W. I.
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Federation of Documentary Film Units. Nature 157, 579 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157579b0
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