SIR,—To Nigel Lawson's notes on this should be added some
facts on the peculiar behaviour by the BBC on its 'private screenings.' A number of the press who had not been invited to these, including this organisation, were refused tickets.
So were Mr. William Connor ('Cassandra' of the Daily Mirror), Mr. George Hoellering. controller of that admirably-run and most unsensational of cinemas, the Academy, Oxford Street, W. and the editor of Sight and Sound, which is published by the British Film Institute, which controls the National Film Theatre, where The War Game is being screened! Tickets at the private screenings were double-checked by crews of commissionaires from Broadcasting House, whither the film was removed between showings. (What? No tanks?) Isn't the BBC making itself somewhat ridiculous? Is it also trying to censor the press?
DORE SILVERMAN Hon Secretary Film and TV Press Guild 9 Compayne Gardens, London, NW6
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