SYDNEY SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETY
FORMED SEPTEMBER 1950
Thursday 18th January 1951Page 25 - The Sun (Sydney, NSW)
SYDNEY SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETY
The Sydney Scientific Film Society, a relatively new organization, is really on the job. It aims to show regularly scientific films of interest, discover what scientific films are held, either privately or by business houses, catalog them and establish some central repository for them. So far they've located 1500 scientific films, some of them venerable with age.
President is Professor T.D. Murray, of the Sydney University Zoology Department, secretary is Dr. A.R. Michaelis, of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering. Howard Hughes, official Museum photographer, is the publicity officer.
Saturday 31st March 1951Page 5 - The Sun (Sydney, NSW)
SYDNEY SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETY
Caring nothing for box-office successes or the profiles and limbs of Hollywood lovelies, members of the Sydney Scientific Film Society like films they can metaphorically get their teeth into. They have just such a program lined up for the Wallace Theatre at the University on Monday night at 7pm. First they have a film showing the scientific uses of photography in such things as stress analysis, photo micrography, time lapse cinematography and instrument recording. Then there's the Army film of the German V2 rocket and, finally, and possibly the most interesting, there's a French film, vintage 1904, with the intriguing title of Journey Through the Impossible. It describes a return trip to Mars and is the first film ever made that used fades, dissolves and trick photography.
Saturday 5th May 1951Page 5 - The Sun (Sydney, NSW)
SYDNEY SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETY
The Sydney Scientific Film Society, a relatively new body, is becoming quite busy. It has received an invitation to send a selection of Australian-made scientific films to the annual congress, Film Festival of the International Scientific Film Association at The Hague. It also has an impressive list of films for lunch-hour screenings at the Museum the first and third Wednesdays of each month.
Wednesday 1st August 1951Page 6 - The Sun (Sydney, NSW)
SYDNEY SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETY
A meeting to form a scientific film division of the Canberra institute of Anatomy on Tuesday. Representatives of a number of Canberra organizations have been invited to attend the meeting and discuss a proposed constitution. Dr. A. Michaelis, secretary of Film Centre will be held in the the Sydney Scientific Film Society, and special film producer at the Sydney University, will attend the meeting.
Saturday 8th September 1951Page 11 - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
SYDNEY SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETY
The council of the Sydney Scientific Film Society last night decided that an Australian Scientific Film Association should be formed. Representatives of organizations in Sydney, Canberra, and Melbourne will meet in Sydney this week-end to plan details of the association. Mr. Neil Edwards, of the Victorian Film Centre, said that because of the present emphasis on training in the skilled arts, it was essential to co-ordinate scientific film work throughout Australia.
Tuesday 25th September 1951Page 5 - The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Queensland)
SYDNEY SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETY
Two extraordinary Australian films had their world premiere in Sydney to-night when the Sydney Scientific Film Society screened scenes from aboriginal life. The films, shown at the University of Sydney, were taken by the expedition to Southern and Central Arnhem Land in August, 1949, under the leadership of Professor A.P. Elkin, Professor of Anthropology. One film depicts one of the most secret of aboriginal ceremonies, the Maraian festival, which corresponds to the Christian Festival of All Souls, but recognizes the souls of all things, including birds, fishes, and trees. The films will be available to scientific Institutions all over the world.
Tuesday 25th September 1951Page 2 - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Thursday 4th October 1951Page 4 - The Evening Advocate (Innisfail, Queensland)
Tuesday 16th October 1951Page 4 - Kalgoorlie Miner (Western Australia)
SYDNEY SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETYSECRET ABORIGINAL RITES SEEN IN UNIVERSITY FILMS
Two extraordinary Australian films had their world premiere in Sydney last night, when the Sydney Scientific Film Society screened scenes from aboriginal life in the Wallace Theatre of the University of Sydney.
The films were taken by the expedition to Southern and Central Arnhem Land in August, 1949, under the leadership of Professor A.P. Elkin, who holds the University's Chair of Anthropology.
One film depicts one of the most secret of aboriginal ceremonies - the Maraian Festival, which corresponds with the Christian Festival of All Souls, but recognizes the souls of all things, including birds, fishes, and trees.
A DISTINCTION
The Arnhem Land natives draw a distinction between their sacred and their secular songs and dances.
Secular ceremonies can be rehearsed before filming. But religious ceremonies of the kind filmed by Professor Elkin's expedition are regarded as too sacred to be rehearsed and, ordinarily, may be witnessed only by men who have been initiated into the tribe.
FOR 20 YEARS
Professor Elkin has been making expeditions into North Australia and Arnhem Land - whenever he could raise the money for the last 20 years.
By virtue of his friendship with certain tribes, he was able to introduce the American photographer who accompanied him, Mr. J. Buffun, and persuade the aborigines to allow the ceremonies to be filmed.
During preparations for the ceremonies the aborigines be- decked themselves with feathers (stuck on with blood) and dried leaves.
During the ceremonies there are calls to the "shades" of ancestors. The participants imitate birds and animals.
MUSIC RECORDED
The main purpose of the expedition, however, was to record aboriginal music.
This meant transporting two high-fidelity wire-recorders, together with the batteries needed to operate them.
The P.M.G.'s Department and the A.B.C. helped by sending a qualified technician with the party and supplying the recorders and other equipment. The Government provided transport from Darwin.
The party of seven spent five weeks in Arnhem Land, and brought back 12 slow-speed 12 inch records of sacred and other music and ritual accompaniments.
Among these are several "gossip songs," which are as popular with the natives as are dance tunes in Sydney.
HEARD BEFORE
"There's one, "Professor Elkin said, "of a type that I've heard before. A young man is pushing off in his canoe, and on the river bank a young lady implores him to stay or let her come with him. "But the chap just tells her to wait, that he'll be back some time. It's the same old story, you know".
The non-sacred songs and dances of Arnhem Land cover at least as wide a range as those of the white man. They include "trade", "love", "burial", and many other kinds, as well as "personal" songs which only the composers sing.
The "trade", or "Walaka", dances and songs are performed when members of different tribes meet to trade with each other.
DIFFERENT SONGS
Men and women sing different love songs according to their sex: but they are all calculated to arouse the appropriate interest and response from the person to whom they are sung.
Burial songs are characterized by regular verses of a mythological character.
All these were successfully recorded by the expedition, and later synchronized on the sound tracks of the films shown last night.
The films will be available to scientific institutions all over the world. It is hoped that the showing of them will finance further expeditions.
Wednesday 26th September 1951Page 15 - The Sun (Sydney, NSW)
SYDNEY SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETY
The Sydney Scientific Film Society has published its film index which lists more than 1500 scientific films, gives a brief account of its nature and whether it is sound, silent, black and white or color. It's a valuable service to those interested in scientific films. Apart from its index, the society has appraised nearly 100 films, and finds more and more coming in.
Monday 26th May 1952Page 11 - The Sun (Sydney, NSW)
SYDNEY SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETY
The Sydney Scientific Film Society, still a relatively young body, now claims to have the largest membership of any film society in the Commonwealth. It's so big that from tonight it will have double screenings at the University's Union Hall — one at 5.30pm, the other at 7.30pm.
Tonight's showing also will be the first all 35mm screening — an Italian film on The Car, Yesterday and Today; an historical animal film, Monkey Into Man; and another scientific film, From Alchemy to Atom Splitting.
Next month the society may show a film that should have wide contemporary appeal, It's How to Catch a Cold.
Thursday 5th June 1952Page 12 - News (Adelaide, South Australia)
ADELAIDE'S SCIENTIFIC FILM FANS MEET TODAY TO FORM THE SOUTH AUSTRALIA SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETY
SUN BECOMES A STAR IN FILMS
Are you interested in the wing movement of the common blowfly? Or the movement of sun spots?
Perhaps the muscular operation of different chambers of the heart is more your dish. All of these phenomena have been recorded on movie film. Today the cine camera plays an important part in scientific research. It is used by the scientist to record specific information, as a means of teaching science, and to illustrate scientific ideas difficult to demonstrate in other ways.
Adelaide's enthusiasts for scientific films are holding their first meeting at Adelaide University's physics theatre today to form the South Australia Scientific Film Society.
REGULAR SHOWS
The meeting has been called by a provisional committee consisting of Mr. H. Marston, Prof. L.G.H. Huxley, Messrs. A. Baddams, C.P. Mountford, and N. Forrester.
Mr. Baddams said the society hoped to have regular screenings of science films, and draw up a catalog of the many hundreds available in Australia. Specialist groups of biologists, physicists, astronomers and so on would later be formed, he said. The society would also provide for those like myself who are just plain inquisitive, by showing science films of a not too - technical type.
Films have been used by geologists, in recording the explosions of volcanoes. Astronomers observe eruptions on the face of the sun - sun spots - by photographing them with a cine camera, and later studying the movie film.
HIGH SPEED
The cine camera is particularly useful in research because it can slow down or speed up any event that can be seen by the human eye. It sees many things which escape the eye.
A group of research workers, using high speed cinematography, were able for the first time to study the wing movements of the humming bird. They took a continuous series of motion pictures, each at one thirty-thousandth part of a second.
The wing movements of a blowfly, when photographed at a similar speed, revealed a small balance device under the fly's wing. The principle, which allows the fly to hover, was later tried successfully on helicopters. It's no secret that cine cameras are used extensively to record experimental work at Woomera rocket range. In many cases, the film is the only record from which the scientist works.
SURGERY, TOO
In medical teaching, surgeons have recorded the intricacies of their operations on films and have been able to show their students the exact technique to be developed. A camera attached to a German V-2 rocket was used to film the receding earth as the rocket ascended. One of these films, shown at Olinda Film Festival, Victoria, in January, showed the curvature of the earth.
Opposite to high-speed cinematography is time-lapse cinematography. By this technique, pictures taken days apart are shown together as a continuous movie. Time-lapse films are used to show the growth of plants. One film of the roots of plants, taken over a year, and shown in five minutes, is a graphic illustration of growth.
ABORIGINES
The anthropologist now takes a cine camera with him to record events seen only by a few, and explain them to many who are anxious to follow his work.
South Australia has Australia's most notable anthropologist-cameraman in Mr. C.P. Mountford. His color film records of Australian aborigines, particularly on the 1948 Arnhem Land expedition, have been eagerly studied by scientists, and interested people, all over the world.
South Australia Scientific Film Society will follow the model of the Sydney Scientific Film Society, formed by Dr. A.R. Michaelis, of Sydney University. Dr. Michaelis, who has produced remarkable films taken at Sydney University, visited SA earlier this year and set the ball rolling.
Wednesday 20th August 1952Page 2 - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
SCIENCE SPEAKERS WILL SURVEY A WIDE FIELD
There are more scientists, major and minor, in Sydney this week than ever before. To-day about 2,200 members of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science will attend the opening of their eight-day conference at the University of Sydney. This association - generally known as ANZAAS-was formed 64 years ago to aid research and spread knowledge of the latest scientific advances. It has not met in Sydney since 1932.
The association is similar in its aims to the famous British Association for the Advancement of Science. Its conference is quite distinct from the much smaller but extremely learned conference of the International Scientific Radio Union, which has also brought overseas experts to Sydney and is continuing until the end of this week. Many of those attending the ANZAAS gathering are science teachers from schools who want to keep up-to-date in their subjects. Others are professional research workers from universities, or from such organizations as the C.S.I.R.O. A few are scientists of world reputation.
The most famous of the latter are two visitors: Sir John Cockcroft, F.R.S., Director of the British Ministry of Supply's Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, and Professor Charles Best, F.R.S., of Toronto University, Canada, co-discoverer of insulin.
Sir John Cockcroft is due in Sydney by air to-morrow. He will give a lecture to the conference in the Great Hall of the University on Friday evening. It seems probable that his chief reason for visiting Australia at this time is to attend the atomic test at Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia, but no official statement to this effect has been made. As Britain's head man in atomic research, Sir John lives behind a network of security restrictions. Those who know him say he dislikes the atmosphere of secrecy and black magic which surrounds his work, but that it does not worry him unduly. Sir John is described as a cheerful, plain-speaking North Countryman - he was born 55 years ago on the border of Yorkshire and Lancashire. He began his career as an electrical engineer, then took a mathematics degree at Cambridge and joined Lord Rutherford's brilliant team of physicists there.
In 1932 he and a co-worker, E.T.S. Walton, were the first persons to succeed in breaking up an atomic nucleus - "splitting an atom" - by artificial means. Cockcroft and Walton were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics last year, presumably for their great 1932 achievement. Early in the war Sir John directed research in applications of radar; then he directed atomic research for the Canadian Government. He is an efficient administrator as well as an engineer-physicist of the highest order.
Professor Best has been in Australia for several weeks as a guest of the Post-Graduate Committee in Medicine. A friendly Canadian of 53, he is Director of the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at Toronto University. As a young chemistry graduate after World War I, he collaborated with a surgeon, Frederick Banting, in experiments on the treatment of diabetes. One of their lines of approach to the problem was to test the effect of injections of the hormone, insulin, which they obtained from the pancreas of dogs. In 1922 they made their historic discovery that insulin was an effective treatment for diabetes. The discovery has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Professor Best is now working on experiments aimed at the production of a longer-acting insulin, which would make unnecessary the daily treatment now needed by diabetes patients. At the conference he will lecture tomorrow afternoon on "Factors Affecting Fat Mobilization".
BIG PROGRAM
ANZAAS takes a broad view of the scope of science. The 16 sections into which the conference is divided include history; education, psychology, and philosophy; and economics, statistics, and social science.
Sir Douglas Copland, Vice Chancellor of the National University, Canberra, is this year's president of the association. He will give his presidential address to-night on "Authority and Social Control in a Free Society". To-morrow the members will separate into their sections for the big program of lectures and discussions.
Most of the subjects are very specialised in their interest. Dr. H. Schwerdtfeger, for example, will talk to the astronomy-mathematics-physics section on "Matrices Commuting With Their Own Derivatives"; Dr. N.S. Gill will address the chemistry section on "Multidentate Chelate Compounds," and Professor G. W. Leeper, of the agriculture forestry section, will raise the question: "What Use is Pedology?" The program also includes, however, some lectures on matters more generally and easily understood.
Professor A.D. Ross, of the University of Western Australia, is going to deal on Friday morning with "Blue Suns and Blue Moons". These proverbially unusual phenomena are believed to be caused by dust and smoke. Professor Ross has some data about a blue sun seen in Britain two years ago and attributed to forest fires in Alberta, Canada.
Mr. W.G. Kelt, a Sydney optometrist, will address the optometry sub-section on "The Missing Eye of Nefertete". Nefertete was an ancient Egyptian queen of attractive appearance. The portrait bust of her, now in Berlin, was one good glass eye and one incomplete eye. Mr. Kett has made a close study of ancient Egyptian glass eyes in general and of Nefertete's in particular.
Professor K.E. Bullen, F.R.S., Professor of Mathematics at Sydney University, will lecture on "The State of the Earth's Inner Core". He will bring forward evidence that, while the outer part of the earth's central core is liquid, the inner part is solid.
APE-MAN REMAINS
One of the most eminent visitors to the conference is Professor Le Gros Clark, F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy at Oxford. His lecture on Friday on "Fossil Primates From East Africa and South Africa" - dealing with the remains of ape-men-is expected to be of special importance.
On six days of the conference, scientific films will be shown in the Wallace Lecture Theatre at the university. This program has been arranged by the Sydney Scientific Film Society, in which the leading spirit is Dr. A.R. Michaelis, of the university's Department of Aeronautical Engineering. The subjects will range from "Life With Babies" and "New Detergents" - a happy combination to "Heard Island" and "Digestion".
A sideshow at the conference will be the exhibition of scientific instruments and apparatus arranged by the Institute of Physics, where geiger counters, among other things, will be on display. This exhibition will be open to the public on Thursday evening.
Most of the lectures and functions of the conference are open to ANZAAS members only. Members of the public are able to join the association for the duration of the conference by payment of £1 fee.
1st October 1952Page 638 - Vol. 59 No. 10 The Australasian Photographic Review
SYDNEY SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETY
The following brief notes have been taken from the Annual Report of the Council to be presented to the General Meeting scheduled for September 29th.
During the year the Council of the Society has met four times under the Chairmanship of its President, Professor P.D.F. Murray. The Executive Committee met seven times during the year to deal with the many details connected with the Society’s activities.
Monthly screenings have continued regularly and have proved to be the most popular item of the Society’s activities, attendance now averaging 600 as compared with 25 a year ago. A second screening of monthly films has had to be made in order to accommodate this large audience.
A total of 56 scientific films covering every phase of study was screened during the year. Many addresses were delivered to members by the Professors of the University and other scientists. Membership now totals 543, showing an increase of 289 since June, 1951.
The financial status of the Society is just about in a state of equilibrium; the Society therefore urges members to do their utmost to obtain new members and donations which will permit of further expansion.
A great deal of work is being done by the panels selected to appraise films for publication. These committees have viewed 266 films, varying in length from one to six reels.
A new Catalog of Scientific and Technical Films is being prepared by a special Publication Committee.
The Society has received much support from scientific and technical journals and from the newspapers and periodicals.
Some of the films planned for future screening include:
October 27: Dissection of the Dog Fish, Science in the Orchestra, Chapter and Verse.
November 24: Life Cycle of the Pin Mould, Lesson in Anatomy, Electronic Evolution, How to Build an Igloo.
December 15: Trawlers in Action, Vernier Scale, Farnborough Air Show.
Wednesday 25th March 1953Page 8 - The Inverell Times (NSW)
FILM CLUB
The Inverell Film Club membership is continuing to expand rapidly, the attendance at the last meeting being over 60. The President, Mr. A.E. Johnstone, warmly welcomed new members and visitors. A varied program of documentary and instructional films was shown and discussion on these films was quite interesting. Not only was the subject matter of each film discussed, but the quality of its "visuals" and sound track was criticized, as well as its production and direction.
Questions were asked and members were often able tosupply helpful answers. An experiment was conducted to determine whether any particular type of sound recording was superior or inferior, but the results were inconclusive as both "variable density" and "variable width" sound tracks gave both good and bad results. It seemed that, in all probability, the age of the print had a good deal to do with the clarity of reproduction. The question of "Discussion of Films", was raised and Mr. Johnstone asked for some opinions as to its value and methods of improving, varying or reducing it.
TECHNICAL FILM NIGHT
A special Technical Film night has been arranged for Thursday, May 21st. This will be in addition to the regular meeting nights, which members should note will be on Mondays, on March 30th, April 7th and June 1st.
Some outstanding films have been secured for these programs. Such films as "Daybreak in Udi", "Spotlight on Australian Ballet" and "The Nature of Color" are graded very favorably by the Film Users Association and should prove most interesting.
The club is now able to secure films from the N.S.W. Film Council, The National Film Library at Canberra, the Canadian Film Office, the Australian General Electric Co., the Rural Bank and many other distributors.
The Film Users Catalog lists and grades about 1500 films whilst a complementary catalog received from the Sydney Scientific Film Society indexes a further 1400 special scientific and technical films so that there is no shortage of film material. Members are urged to consult the catalogs and advise the committee of films they would like to see.
Next Monday night's program takes us to the tropical mountains of Java, and to the trotting races in Canada. It tells us about the common cold and light waves and Radar; shows us the building of an airscrew and tops off by explaining that man's invention in the mechanical world have been equaled by Nature ages ago.
Monday 29th June 1953Page 11 - The Sun (Sydney, NSW)
SYDNEY SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETY
The Sydney Scientific Film Society, still a relatively young body, claims to be the biggest film society in Australia and probably the biggest scientific film society in the world.
They show their films usually at the Wallace Theatre, Sydney University, and the field they cover is as wide as the world.
Just as a sample, their next screening tonight (5.30pm and 7.30pm) has films about the production of pottery, the microscopic organism paramecium, manufacture of grease, kangaroos, Benjamin Fanklin, heating research for housing, and an extract from the old film, The Lost World.
Monday 13th July 1953Page 6 - The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser (NSW)
FILM SOCIETY FOR ARMIDALE
Dr. A.R. Michaelis, who is visiting the New England University College this week, is a number of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering in the University of Sydney. After war service with the R.A.A.F., Dr. Michaelis returned to Sydney with a little apparatus, a lot of ideas, and an immense enthusiasm for the use of films in research into problems of science and engineering. As a result of his efforts the Sydney Scientific Film Society, of which he is now secretary, was established. Dr. Michaelis has made several research films for Universities and other organizations, and is at present working on a textbook dealing with the uses of films in science and technology.
Although his special interests lie on the scientific side, Dr. Michaelis is a keen student of films of all sorts and an enthusiast for film society work. Armidale is very fortunate to be able to inaugurate its own FiIm Society with a program of documentaries selected by Dr. Michaelis, which will be presented at the Teachers College at 7.30pm tomorrow.
Thursday 8th October 1953Page 36 - The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW)
FILM FESTIVAL 1954
SYDNEY will have a Film Festival in 1954, probably in June. This was decided at a recent meeting attended by representatives from the Film Users Association, the Australian Amateur Cine Society, the Independent Film Group, Kingcroft Productions, Sydney Scientific Film Society and the Sydney University Film Group. Next Tuesday there will be another meeting at the Canadian Film Office.
At this meeting those present will discuss the screening of outstanding films of all types from all parts of the world, with addresses by experts. They will also discuss the staging of an exhibition of film equipment and photographic material and the possible conducting of an Australia-wide competition in various classes of films.
Tuesday 22nd June 1954Page 1 - The Muswellbrook Chronicle (NSW)
THESIS ON DISTRICT COAL RESOURCES WINS DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY
UNIVERSITY AWARD FOR GOVERNMENT GEOLOGIST
The University of Sydney has announced that it will confer the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on Frederick William Booker, M.Sc., F.G.S., Government Geologist of New South Wales.
Dr. Booker has had a distinguished career in the Department of Mines, in which he is head of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and Sydney University. Following a pass, with honors, at the Leaving Certificate examination of 1920, he entered the State Public Service in the Department of Mines in February, 1921. In March of that year he entered the University of Sydney in the Faculty of Science as an exhibitioner of the University and a cadet of the Department of Mines. He graduated in 1925 with the degree of Bachelor of Science with first-class honors in geology. In 1932 the degree of Master of Science was conferred on him by the University for research in Palaeontology.
The thesis which earned his doctorate contains the results of many years work in the northern coalfields of New South Wales. Entitled "The Geology and Coal Resources of the Singleton-Muswellbrook Coalfield", it represents a new and original approach to coalfield geology in Australia, in which the principles of sedimentation and sedimentary tectonics have been applied to the problems of coal seam correlation to present a survey of an undeveloped coalfield where methods hitherto in use had failed.
His research has been a major factor in the development of this important and rapidly expanding coalfield and, during the time in which his work was in progress, has resulted in a five-fold increase in coal production, mainly from open cuts.
Dr. Booker's scientific interests are wide and varied. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and honorary secretary of the New South Wales Division of the Geological Society of Australia. He is vice-president and past president of the Geological Association of the University of Sydney, and a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Royal Society of New South Wales, the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science and the Sydney Scientific Film Society.
Asked to comment, Dr. Booker said that he was naturally very proud of the high degree to be conferred on him. He said that he owed much to the University of Sydney and to the Department of Mines. Without the exhibition awarded to him by the University and the cadet-ship in the Department of Mines, a University education would have been out of the question for him. He paid a high tribute to his supervisor in the University, Professor C.E. Marshall, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.G.S., for the help and encouragement given to him, and to the New South Wales Public Service Board which, on the recommendation of Mr. E.J. Kenny, Under-Secretary for Mines, permitted him to be seconded to the University to carry out research.
Tuesday 16th November 1954Page 11 - The Sun (Sydney, NSW)
SOCIETY SHOWS SCIENCE FILMS
The Sydney Scientific Film Society holds regular screenings on the last Monday of each month, in the Wallace Theatre at Sydney University. The society, formed in September, 1950, is making arrangements for the importation of outstanding scientific films, to keep Australians informed of advances in science and industry. It has two units making films.