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Fantasy Times, v. 2, issue 11, whole no. 42, March 16, 1947
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FANTASY-TIMES Page 27 "Fans and Fandom" "1st World Convention Made No Profits"-Sykora In an interview on Friday, March 14, in Corona, William S. Sykora, Philcon's New York Representative and Director of The [William S. Sykora] Queens Science Fiction League, said, "Contrary to reports printed in the first issue of The Philcon News, the 1939, First World Science Fiction Convention did not make any profits." Mr. Sykora said that the purpose of New Fandom's Convention Committee, composing in part of Taurasi, Moskowitz, Racic, Gardner, Miss. F. Alberti and Sykora, was solely to put on an entertaining stf affair and that the Committee went on record individually and collectively against making any profits from the convention. Mr. Sykora went on to say, "I believe that a convention ought to pay for itself, but I have always felt that the making of any profits from this source is reprehensible." THE COSMIC REPORTER (continued from page 26, column 2) NFFF-sponsored. - Christensen SCIENTISLICKS confidentially by Alvin R. Brown Your columnist recently wandered into one of those plush cinema palaces in New York to witness the story of the Atomic Bomb appropriately entitled The Beginning or The End. What Hollywood and M.G.M. have done to the story of the development of this most potent weapon is a dirty shame. IF you can imagine a nickel-plated atomic bomb and a pretty bad love plot woven rather abominally into one of the most significant stories of our times, then you can imagine the type of movie you will see. The technical skill shown in the scene where the atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima is one of the finest scenes I have seen but the newsreels of this incident were even better. In no way does this single scene make up for the bad taste, technical inaccuracy and finagling of the actual human events behind the atomic story. M.G.M. had the opportunity to produce one of the greatest and most significant picture of our time but as usual Hollywood still labors under the misconception that the average movie-goer has all the mentality of a twelve year old and mot have a love affair every five minutes of screen time to enjoy any and all motion pictures. Actually, I wouldn't recommend this picture to anyone for the above reasons, but since it is the only picture on the atomic bomb yet produced it might be worth your while to see it if only to use it as a yardstick for future A-bomb films. - arb (The opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily those of Fantasy-Times.) (ENS) The Prince of Mystery, by Lawrence Williams, in Colliers' for March 1, 1947, is a short fantasy about the son of the (continued on page 28, column 2)
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FANTASY-TIMES Page 27 "Fans and Fandom" "1st World Convention Made No Profits"-Sykora In an interview on Friday, March 14, in Corona, William S. Sykora, Philcon's New York Representative and Director of The [William S. Sykora] Queens Science Fiction League, said, "Contrary to reports printed in the first issue of The Philcon News, the 1939, First World Science Fiction Convention did not make any profits." Mr. Sykora said that the purpose of New Fandom's Convention Committee, composing in part of Taurasi, Moskowitz, Racic, Gardner, Miss. F. Alberti and Sykora, was solely to put on an entertaining stf affair and that the Committee went on record individually and collectively against making any profits from the convention. Mr. Sykora went on to say, "I believe that a convention ought to pay for itself, but I have always felt that the making of any profits from this source is reprehensible." THE COSMIC REPORTER (continued from page 26, column 2) NFFF-sponsored. - Christensen SCIENTISLICKS confidentially by Alvin R. Brown Your columnist recently wandered into one of those plush cinema palaces in New York to witness the story of the Atomic Bomb appropriately entitled The Beginning or The End. What Hollywood and M.G.M. have done to the story of the development of this most potent weapon is a dirty shame. IF you can imagine a nickel-plated atomic bomb and a pretty bad love plot woven rather abominally into one of the most significant stories of our times, then you can imagine the type of movie you will see. The technical skill shown in the scene where the atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima is one of the finest scenes I have seen but the newsreels of this incident were even better. In no way does this single scene make up for the bad taste, technical inaccuracy and finagling of the actual human events behind the atomic story. M.G.M. had the opportunity to produce one of the greatest and most significant picture of our time but as usual Hollywood still labors under the misconception that the average movie-goer has all the mentality of a twelve year old and mot have a love affair every five minutes of screen time to enjoy any and all motion pictures. Actually, I wouldn't recommend this picture to anyone for the above reasons, but since it is the only picture on the atomic bomb yet produced it might be worth your while to see it if only to use it as a yardstick for future A-bomb films. - arb (The opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily those of Fantasy-Times.) (ENS) The Prince of Mystery, by Lawrence Williams, in Colliers' for March 1, 1947, is a short fantasy about the son of the (continued on page 28, column 2)
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