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This periodical was published in nine issues between August 1946 and May 1949.

Each of the volumes of the book has a good number of photographic plates, illustrations of film stills. The first five issues were in a slightly larger size of 8 x 5 inches format. The other periodicals were in the usual Penguin size. Though they sold around 25,000 copies of each, there was not as much demand for these books as the usual Penguins, and after the 9th was published it was decided to cease printing.

The periodical was initally edited by a group of three: R. K. Neilson Baxter, Roger Manvell and H. H. Wollenberg. After the first volume, Roger Manvell became the Executive Editor of the series, and he also selected all the photographs of film stills for inclusion in the Film Reviews. All three members of the editorial team were prolific in contributing articles to the whole series.

After ceasing to print the Penguin Film Review, the series was succeeded for another three years by Penguin publishing three Pelicans all edited by Roger Manvell: The Cinema (1950) A226; The Cinema (1951) A233; The Cinema (1952) A260. The cover of Pelican A226 states "The first volume of an annual publication, designed to take the place of the Penguin Film Review".

It is worth noting that the complete set of The Penguin Film Review 1946-1949, comprising some 1,376 pages, 159 articles and over 500 stills was published in two volumes as a reprint by Taylor and Francis in 1977, both in paperback and hardback format. An additional entry is provided below the Penguin series.

We are pleased to include with each separate entry a full list of the contents of each volume of The Penguin Film Review.

Information and cover photographs of the THE PENGUIN FILM REVIEW Periodical:

Number: FR1	Series No.: FR1 Title: THE PENGUIN FILM REVIEW - 1 1 Edited by: R. K. Neilson Baxter, Roger Manvell and H. H. Wollenberg Contents (Text): Policy; 17 Articles; Book Reviews and Notes on Contributors Contents (Illustrations): 55 black-and-white photographic plates showing stills from films Date Published: August 1946 Pages: 128pp. + 32pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 1/- Contents: POLICY THE TENTH MUSE CLIMBS PARNASSUS by Anthony Asquith CRITICAL SURVEY: CRITIC'S PROLOGUE by Richard Winnington NOTES ON FILM MUSIC by John Huntley TECHNICAL APPRECIATION by Molyneux PICTURES FOR PEANUTS: A STUDY FROM HOLLYWOOD by Nick Grinde ROUND THE WORLD'S STUDIOS by H. H. Wollenberg THE INFLUENCE OF THE FILM by Sinclair Road THE BRITISH FILM DURING THE WAR by Michael Balcon THE FRENCH CINEMA SINCE 1944 by Nicole Verdrès THE ITALIAN FILM INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION by Alfred Scherk RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Catherine de la Roche THE SEVEN PILLARS OF HOLLYWOOD by Emil Ludwig THE PROGRESS OF SUB-STANDARD by I. D. Wratten YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED by Michael Powell CARTOON by Richard Winnington FINANCIAL NOTES by F. E. Daniels STATISTICS by H. H. Wollenberg BOOK REVIEWS Edited by R. K. Neilson Baxter NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ILLUSTRATED SECTION Compiled by Roger Manvell
Number: FR2	Series No.: FR2 Title: THE PENGUIN FILM REVIEW - 2 1 Editorial Board: R. K. Neilson Baxter, Roger Manvell and H. H. Wollenberg Executive Editor: Roger Manvell Contents (Text): Editorial; 15 Articles; Notes on Contributors Contents (Illustrations): 55 black-and-white photographic plates showing stills from films Date Published: January 1947 Pages: 96pp. + 32pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 1/- Contents: EDITORIAL SEARCH FOR MUSIC by Anthony Asquith CRITICAL SURVEY by Richard Winnington FILM MUSIC by John Huntley TECHNICAL NOTES by Molyneux ROUND THE WORLD'S STUDIOS by H. H. Wollenberg DOCUMENTARY TO-DAY by Basil Wright FOUR YEARS IN A BOTTLE by William Novik THE AMERICAN SCENE AND THE PROBLEMS OF FILM EDUCATION by Herbert F. Margolis THE MOSCOW SCRIPT STUDIO AND SOVIET SCREENWRITING by Catherine de la Roche FRENCH CINEMA by Nicole Verdrès THE SCANDINAVIAN FILM by Ragna Jackson YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED STATISTICS by H. H. Wollenberg FINANCIAL NOTES by Ivor Montagu BOOKS ABOUT FILMS Edited by R. K. Neilson Baxter NOTES ON NEW CONTRIBUTORS AND ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS
Number: FR3	Series No.: FR3 Title: THE PENGUIN FILM REVIEW - 3 1 Editorial Board: R. K. Neilson Baxter, Roger Manvell and H. H. Wollenberg Executive Editor: Roger Manvell Contents (Text): Editorial; 20 Articles; Notes on Contributors Contents (Illustrations): 60 black-and-white photographic plates showing stills from films Date Published: August 1947 Pages: 96pp. + 32pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 1/- Contents: EDITORIAL CRITICAL SURVEY by Roger Manvell FILM MUSIC by John Huntley TECHNICAL NOTES by Molyneux EXPRESSIONISM AND REALISM IN FILMS by John Gassner WOMEN AND THE FILM by E. Arnot Robertson ROUND THE WORLD'S STUDIOS by H. H. Wollenberg TRADE UNIONISM IN THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY by George H. Elvin A NEW DEAL FOR FILM WRITERS by Sydney Box THE THREE PERIODS OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK CINEMA by Jindřich Brichta THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS by Dilys Powell THE SCANDINAVIAN FILM - II by Ragna Jackson LUNCH WITH CARL DREYER by Roger Manvell STEREOSCOPY by R. K. Neilson Baxter THE RISE OF THE INDEPENDENTS IN HOLLYWOOD by Frederic Marlowe SCENIC DESIGN IN THE SOVIET CINEMA by Catherine de la Roche FRENCH CINEMA TAKES STOCK by Nicole Vedrès YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED by Pat Jackson FINANCIAL NOTES: GOVERNMENT FILMS STATISTICS by H. H. Wollenberg BOOKS ABOUT FILMS Edited by R. K. Neilson Baxter NOTES ON NEW CONTRIBUTORS ILLUSTRATED SECTION Compiled by Roger Manvell
Number: FR4	Series No.: FR4 Title: THE PENGUIN FILM REVIEW - 4 1 Editorial Board: R. K. Neilson Baxter, Roger Manvell and H. H. Wollenberg Executive Editor: Roger Manvell Contents (Text): Editorial; 21 Articles; Notes on Contributors Contents (Illustrations): 55 black-and-white photographic plates showing stills from films Date Published: October 1947 Pages: 128pp. + 32pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 1/- Contents: EDITORIAL THE MISSION OF THE CINEMA by Jean Benoit-Lévy CRITICAL SURVEY by Roger Manvell FILM MUSIC by John Huntley ROUND THE WORLD'S STUDIOS by H. H. Wollenberg BRIEF ENCOUNTER by David Lean ACTING FOR STAGE AND SCREEN by Googie Withers DEVELOPMENTS IN FILM MUSIC by Muir Mathieson CAST AND CASTE by Ralph Keene A SHORT INQUIRY INTO A FORM OF POPULAR POETRY by Everett Carter THE FILM IN INDIA by N. K. Rahim REALISM THE BASIS OF SOVIET FILM ART by Semyon Burov THE PROBLEMS OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL FILM by Captain O. F. A. Gollings, R.M. THE CONTINENTAL FILM IN BRITAIN by Julia Wolf THE NEW GERMAN FILM AND ITS INTERNATIONAL PROSPECTS by Paul Ickes THE CINEMA IN ARGENTINA by Raymond del Castillo CRITICISM AND FRENCH CINEMA by Nicole Vedrès THE SOVIET CINEMA AND YOUTH by Catherine de la Roche YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED by Edgar Anstey STATISTICS by H. H. Wollenberg THE NEW CINEMATOGRAPH ACT by Ralph Bond BOOKS ABOUT FILMS Reviews edited by R. K. Neilson Baxter NOTES ON NEW CONTRIBUTORS ILLUSTRATED SECTION Compiled by Roger Manvell
Number: FR5	Series No.: FR5 Title: THE PENGUIN FILM REVIEW - 5 1 Editorial Board: R. K. Neilson Baxter, Roger Manvell and H. H. Wollenberg Executive Editor: Roger Manvell Contents (Text): Editorial; 16 Articles; Notes on Contributors Contents (Illustrations): 60 black-and-white photographic plates showing stills from films Date Published: January 1948 Pages: 96pp. + 32pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 1/6 Contents: EDITORIAL CRITICAL SURVEY by Roger Manvell FILM-MUSIC ORCHESTRAS by John Huntley TECHNICAL NOTES by Molyneux HAPPILY EVER AFTER by Fritz Lang THE ANATOMY OF FILM by Thomas Taig FILM PRODUCTION PROBLEMS AND ACTIVITIES IN PALESTINE by E. Harris ROUND THE WORLD'S STUDIOS by H. H. Wollenberg THE IMPORTANCE OF FILM ARCHIVES by Ernest Lindgren RISE AND DECLINE OF AN 'AVANT-GARDE' by Jacques Brunius BOX OFFICE OR BUST by Jan Read 'IT'S TYPICALLY FRENCH' by Nicole Vedrès THE SOVIET CINEMA AND SCIENCE by Catherine de la Roche THE HOLLYWOOD SCENE: THE AMERICAN MINORITY PROBLEM by Herbert Margolis YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED by Monia Danischewsky STATISTICS by H. H. Wollenberg BOOKS ABOUT FILMS Edited by R. K. Neilson Baxter NOTES ON NEW CONTRIBUTORS ILLUSTRATED SECTION Compiled by Roger Manvell
Number: FR6	Series No.: FR6 Title: THE PENGUIN FILM REVIEW - 6 1 Editorial Board: R. K. Neilson Baxter, Roger Manvell and H. H. Wollenberg Executive Editor: Roger Manvell Contents (Text): Editorial; 17 Articles; Notes on Contributors Contents (Illustrations): 55 black-and-white photographic plates showing stills from films Date Published: April 1948 Pages: 128pp. + 32pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 1/6 Contents: EDITORIAL CRITICAL SURVEY by Matthew Norgate CASH DOWN AND NO CREDIT by Guy Morgan TYPE-CASTING SCREEN-WRITERS by Martin Field THOSE WERE THE DAYS by Cecil Hepworth ROUND THE WORLD'S STUDIOS by H. H. Wollenberg TELEVISION AND CINEMA by TAndrew Miller Jones THE GERMAN FILMS OF FRITZ LANG by Lotte H. Eisner INDIAN SPRING by Thorold Dickinson THE NATIVE FILMS OF MEXICO by Maria Rosa Oliver THE FUNCTION OF THE SPECIALISED CINEMA by Elizabeth M. Harris WHO ARE THOSE TECHNICIANS? by John Shearman BRITISH FILM MUSIC by John Huntley DIALOGUE FOR STAGE AND SCREEN by Clifford Leech ACTORS OF THE SOVIET CINEMA by Catherine de la Roche THE POETRY OF THE FILM by Roger Manvell STATISTICS by H. H. Wollenberg BOOKS ABOUT FILMS Reviews edited by R. K. Neilson Baxter
Number: FR7	Series No.: FR7 Title: THE PENGUIN FILM REVIEW - 7 1 Editorial Board: R. K. Neilson Baxter, Roger Manvell and H. H. Wollenberg Executive Editor: Roger Manvell Contents (Text): Editorial; 17 Articles Contents (Illustrations): 59 black-and-white photographic plates showing stills from films Date Published: September 1948 Pages: 128pp. + 32pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 1/6 Contents: EDITORIAL SERGEI EISENSTEIN by Ivor Montagu STRICTLY ENTRE NOUS by Arletty MR CAPRA'S SHORT CUTS TO UTOPIA by Harold J. Salemson THE MASK OF REALISM by Catherine de la Roche CHILDREN AND FANTASY by Charles Crichton NEWSREELS MUST FIND A NEW POLICY by G. Clement Cave THE FIRST GENERATION OF THE CINEMA by Josef Somlo ERNST LUBITSCH by H. H. Wollenberg AMERICAN CLASSIC: THE MARX BROTHERS by Richard Rowland MONSIEUR VERDOUX by Jacques Brunius THE STRUCTURE OF THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY by R. K. Neilson Baxter ROUND THE WORLD'S STUDIOS by H. H. Wollenberg FILMS FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING: THE UNESCO STORY by Ernest Borneman THE IMPLICATIONS BEHIND THE SOCIAL SURVEY by Rachel Low HOLLYWOOD'S 1948 LINE-UP by Max Knepper THE SCIENTIFIC FILM by John Maddison BOOKS ABOUT FILMS Edited by R. K. Neilson Baxter ILLUSTRATED SECTION Compiled by Roger Manvell
Number: FR8	Series No.: FR8 Title: THE PENGUIN FILM REVIEW - 8 1 Editorial Board: R. K. Neilson Baxter, Roger Manvell and H. H. Wollenberg Executive Editor: Roger Manvell Contents (Text): Editorial; 14 Articles Contents (Illustrations): 59 black-and-white photographic plates showing stills from films Date Published: January 1949 Pages: 128pp. + 32pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 1/6 Contents: EDITORIAL EUROPEAN CARTOON by John Halas and Joy Batchelor THE FILM OF 'HAMLET' by Roger Manvell THAT 'FEMININE ANGLE' by Catherine de la Roche THE JEWISH THEME IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA by H. H. Wollenberg CONTEMPORARY FRENCH CINEMA by Jean-George Auriol BRITISH FILMS AND THEIR AUDIENCE by A. L. Vargas TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF ART by Charles Dekeukeleire TARGET FOR FILM SOCIETIES by Forsyth Hardy POST-WAR AMERICAN DOCUMENTARIES by Richard Griffith PSYCHOLOGY OF FILM EXPERIENCE by Hugo Mauerhofer THE MUSIC OF 'HAMLET' AND 'OLIVER TWIST' by John Huntley THE ART OF THE FILM STRIP by Curt A. Laurentzsch BOOKS ABOUT FILMS Edited by R. K. Neilson Baxter 'FULL FATHOM FIVE...' by The Editors ILLUSTRATED SECTION Compiled by Roger Manvell
Number: FR9	Series No.: FR9 Title: THE PENGUIN FILM REVIEW - 9 1 Editorial Board: R. K. Neilson Baxter, Roger Manvell and H. H. Wollenberg Executive Editor: Roger Manvell Contents (Text): Editorial; 18 Articles Contents (Illustrations): 57 black-and-white photographic plates showing stills from films Date Published: May 1949 Pages: 128pp. + 32pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 1/6 Contents: EDITORIAL YOU START FROM SCRATCH IN AUSTRALIA by Harry Watt THE MAGAZINE FILM by Edgar Anstey THE FILM OF THE BOOK by Eric Ambler THE PRE-FABRICATED DAYDREAM by Maurice Cranston DESIGN BY INFERENCE by Oswell Blakeston and David Rawnsley THE TWO-REEL COMEDY - ITS RISE AND FALL by Arthur Knight THE DOCUMENTARY FILM by Jean Painlevé 'PAISA': HOW IT STRUCK OUR CONTEMPORARIES by Roger Manvell FILM CENSORSHIP IN BRITAIN by A. T. L. Watkins PSYCHOLOGY AND THE FILM by Gertrude Keir A TECHNICIAN'S VIEW OF THE COLOUR FILM by J. H. Coote 'THE MAN WITH THE BOX BROWNIE' by R. K. Neilson Baxter NO DEMAND FOR CRITICISM? by Catherine de la Roche THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE by Siegfried Kracauer HOLLYWOOD REPORT ON A 'TREND' by Martin Field THE RETURN OF ROMANTICISM by H. H. Wollenberg EXPERIMENT WITH CELLULOID by Hans Richter BOOKS ABOUT FILMS Edited by R. K. Neilson Baxter ILLUSTRATED SECTION Compiled by Roger Manvell
Scolar	Title: THE PENGUIN FILM REVIEW 1946-1949 (In 2 volumes) Edited: by Roger Manvell, R. K. Neilson Baxter and H. H. Wollenberg Introduction and index: by Roger Manvell Contributors: Eric Ambler, Edgar Anstey, Anthony Asquith, Michael Bacon, Oswell Blakeston, Jacques Brunius, Maurice Cranston, Thorold Dickinson, Sergei Eisenstein, Lotte Eisner, Siegfried Kracauer, Fritz Lang, David Lean, Ernest Lindgren, Rachel Low, Ivor Montagu, Jean Painlevé, Dilys Powell, Michael Powell, Hans Richter, Harry Watt, Richard Winnington, Basil Wright and seventy others. Cover/Jacket: design by David Pelham Contents (Text): Editorials; 159 Articles Contents (Illustrations): over 500 black-and-white photographic plates showing stills from films Date Published: This reprint edition - 27 October 1977 Published by: Taylor and Francis under the Scolar imprint Pages: 1,376pp. Price: for two volumes £12.00 (paperback), £20.00 (hardback) First two images show front covers of the paperback edition, the third image is a view of the hardback edition with dust jackets Grateful thanks to Paul Lickiss for providing information on this item

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