10 AUGUST 1944, Page 4

A few weeks ago I watched some men putting up

scaffolding and platforms above the sea on a western bay. I was told that this work was being done on behalf of the Ministry of Information in order to get sea photographs for a film now in process of com- pletion in London. Films are not my way of escape, but, even if I did not feel that most of the stuff talked about the cinema is mere bally-hoo, I should think it odd to employ 'good timber and good workmen now on building platforms for the use of marine photographers. Are there riot cliffs enough from which the se2 can be photographed without this paraphernalia?

Nu mA Pown,rus.