The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24

ordinator of inter-American affairs represented by Fran Alstock and Jack Connolly with 2 camera crews) the Office of War Information has two cameras shooting from box es in the opera house and at hotels where delegates are housed !. The Office of Special Services has cam eramen assigned to rounding out pictures for a documentary record of history in the making. These films will repose in the national Archives in Washington so that gen. erations yet unborn may hear and see the men and women who tried to plan a warless world.
 In the Veterans BuiIdnig in the Civic Center large room on the second floor (amply protected for security is lighted for newsreel in- terviews with the Edens, the Molo- toys and other statesmen If these dignitaries wish to see how they photographed, they may hear and see themselves the netx day on the film developed and edited in Holly wood by Allan Butterfield of Mo- M (working in the Movietone stu dioS of Twentieth Century Fox) and rushed pack by air to the United Nations Theater for screening . All five of the American newsreei firms are flying these negatives to N. Y. for processing.
 Tony MutO (of the Washington office) heads Up the Fox Movietone crews in San Francisco Joe Hubbell is up from Hollywood to look after the Hearst-Loew News of the Day !. Joe Fucker of Paramount is shooting with newsreel cam- eras, and Frank Vail of Pathe and Jack McHenry of Universal have 3 each Claude Collins of Wash- lngton has camera crews shooting to supplement the regular newsreel coverage with additional San Fran- cisco locals and special for the United Nations Theater only At the last count the total of news reel cameras was 26 not including the Russians.
 There isn't room in the horseshoe boxes of the opera house for 26 cameras, not to mention faciliteis for television, radio, etc That diplomat of diplomats, Michael J. McDermott of the State Depart ment, is still trying to squeeze everybody into his favorite working spot The newsreels have three boxes off center and elaborate lights installed by Pete Mole so they can photograph the speakers 85 feet be- low on the stage The 2Oth Century-Fox exchange is the re- pository (thanks to Herman Wop- ber) of some 200 cans of film plus many more films in storage else where, the greatest concentration of international film ever assembled anywhere in the world.
 Most of these will be screened at the Conference Theater operated by the State Department at the Ho- tel Sir Francis Drake Francis Wdo I41c 0l4tOll W1lO NWIllle plull- dering the Spanish enemy of his good Queen BesS) sailed his Col den Hinde up to what is now San Francisco . Back on that June day of 1879 Drake called the hill- side Albion, because 1t reminded him of the white cliffs of Dover. Some of the descendants of these Albions are still here - operating out of the British Information Ser vices or Sutter street. There Dor othy Magee (the film officer) has assembled 25 pictures which are a record of Britain's five years of war. And in the de luxe hotel that got its name from the Englishman who discovered California, all the world may discover, through mo- tion pictures, the Britain that to- day fights bloody but unbowed For the Britons-like the Russians and other Allies-are putting their best film footage forward.