Description | This folder contains material relating to Dickinson work for the United Nations Film Department, including budget and accounting papers, meeting notes and agendas, an organisational structure showing the posts for the Radio and Visual Services Division, a list of Emergency Force departures from various countries, an 'order of screenings' for various countries for an unspecified film, summary of 'Big Day in Bogo', an outline of 'Power Among Men' divided into sections, and a letter to Mr Winchell [possibly Walter Winchell] regarding a newspaper article alluding to Dickinson in some way. There is a letter to Dickinson from Henry E. Strub regarding making a successor film to 'Power Among Men' about the situation in Africa at the time, which also mentions a lecture by Major Meyer about the experience American prisoners of war had in Korea compared to the experiences of Turkish prisoners of war, and suggests that Dickinson might engage in work relating to Communist and Western society. It also contains a 4 page draft paper titled 'To Find a Villain' about the United Nationa Film Services which addresses their intentions to widen their audience to the ordinary cinema-goer, and giving details of the film 'Power Among Men', 'Overture' and 'All Our Lives', and a 3 page handwritten paper by Dickinson on the making of the hungarian refugee film, 'Out', in just 35 days. |