A YEAR ago the Institution had a sound film made which showed the building of a motor life-boat, from the felling of teak and mahogany logs in Burma and Honduras up to the arrival of the completed boat at her station.

Another sound film has now been made showing the work of the Institution on the coast. It has music and a running commentary and is called " The Story of the Life-boat." The film opens with a life-boat in a heavy sea. It then shows some of the earlier life-boats: The Original, the first life-boat of all, built in 1789; a self-righting life-boat built in the middle of the nineteenth century; the launch of a pulling and sailing life-boat of the self-righting type; women launchers hauling up a life-boat; men at the oars. Then the film shows one of the steam life-boats, of which.the first was built in 1888, and so comes to the motor life-boat fleet.

The Dover motor life-boat is seen at sea, and there is a shot of her engines.

After this come launches of motor life-boats by hand from a carriage, by tractor, and down a slipway. These launches are followed by life-boatmen in London, and the Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, is seen talking to them after presenting medals.

Then comes a rescue from ship- wreck. Fishermen are seen launching their own boat; a storm gets up; the fishing boat is seen flying distress signals. The coastguard sees her, and calls up the life-boat station; the maroon is fired; the crew run down; the life-boat is launched in a rough sea.

She approaches the fishing boat; a line is thrown and a buoy passed; and the man on board is hauled through the sea into the life-boat. Then the life- boat is seen returning to shore and signalling the news of the rescue.

The film has been produced by Mr.

William Pollard, with Mr. John Shaw Jones at the camera, and the commen- tary is by Mr. Neal Arden. It is the standard size, 35 mm., and takes tec minutes to show..