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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy et al (illustrator). [228pp, 22 plate leaves] in six Numbers, individually saddle stitched in printed card covers; each roughly 245 x 185 mm: (5) 48pp, 4 plate leaves (last two leaves ads); (6) [32pp, 4 plate leaves] foliated [49]-[92] with plates figuring in the pagination (last leaf ads); (7) [40pp, 4 plate leaves] foliated [1]-[48] with plates figuring in the pagination (last leaf ads); (8) [36pp, 4 plate leaves] foliated [1]-[44] with plates figuring in the pagination (last leaf ads); (9) 36pp, 2 plate leaves (last leaf ads); (10) [36pp, 4 plate leaves] foliated [1]-[48] with plates figuring in the pagination (last leaf ads). NUMBER 5 (winter 1934), the sole number subtitled "International Review of Advance-Guard Cinema", was the last issue edited by the periodical's founder B.V. Braun (ousted by the associate editors because too bourgeois). It features the caustic 'Open Letter to Dr Goebbels' by S.M. Eisenstein, together with Oswell Blakeston's thoughts on surrealist film, 'Mirror Writing', amid invaluable indie reviews. NUMBER 6 (autumn 1935) now edited by Nicholson & Moore (with Robert Fairthorne associate editor) features a review of Ptouchko's New Gulliver by Nancy Cunard, a Grierson production, & the full-page iconic still from Dreyer's Joan of Arc focusing on the unidentified Artaud. NUMBER 7 (first quarter 1936) opens with 'Answers to a Questionnaire' by Man Ray, followed by an article on 'Abstract Film' by S. John Woods (illustrated with a Moholy-Nagy plate) & Bernard Huth's excerpt on 'The Cartoon & Its Musical Score' (with 4 cells by Georges Pal). NUMBER 8 (second quarter 1936) features a confrontation between Man Ray & S. John Woods over the merits of Abstract vs Surrealist film, together with an abstract photograph by Oswell Blakeston, 'Hollywood Star!'. NUMBER 9 (autumn 1936), the sole issue in glossy covers, opens with an editorial concerned with television, together with articles addressing censorship, a priceless Blakeston satire, 'Cinema Art', & two Francis Bruguiere photos from his collaboration with Blakeston, Few Are Chosen (1931: Scholartis Press). The final issue of the periodical, NUMBER 10 (spring 1937) features a lengthy article on Erich Von Stroheim (by New York editor Herman Weinberg), 'A Note on the Camera & Philosophy' by Oswell Blakeston (discussing Bruguiere's film The Way), 'Censorship: The Production Code' by Tamar Lane (on the Hays Morality Code) & a review of the Moholy-Nagy exhibition at the London Gallery, by S. John Woods (with 3 plates). All issues remain fine with only light toning to edges (& in the case of the last number, dust-soiling rear). A very scarce file of this short-lived pioneer, lacking the first four numbers (summer 1933 - summer 1934).