2nd Festival 1955

The University’s Great Hall was added as an extra screening room. A Forum was held on Children's films. New, or relatively new, features included: Jean Cocteau's Orphee, Vittorio de Sica's Miracle in Milan, Rene Clement's Les jeux interdits, Charles Frend's Lease of Life, Teinosuke Kinogasa's Gate of Hell, Sidney Meyer's The Quiet One. Albania was represented by Sergei Yutkevich's Skanderbeg, and Malaya by Tom Woods' A Kelantan Story. Harold White, then Librarian of the National Library, introduced a recently restored print of Raymond Longford's The Sentimental Bloke. Other retrospective screenings, making up the total of 14 feature films presented, were Rene Clair's Le million, Buster Keaton's The Navigator, Sergei Eisenstein's uncompleted-Mexican film edited as Time in the Sun, and a Jean Vigo programme consisting of Zero de conduite and A propos de Nice. A programme of locally made amateur films was also included.