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FILMINDIA
All this brings home the necessity of finding more and better directors. We must call for men from the educated ranks and train them slowly to take the future responsibilities of the industry.
Unless we do that, I am afraid, the future of the industry will always remain speculative. We must have men whom we can trust and trust implicitly.
BETTER CAMERAMEN?
The cameraman is an important man in the whole plan of production. As people receive the first impression through the eyes, the optical appeal of the picture must be clear and pleasant. Excellent photography only can achieve these results. And excellent photography calls for efficient cameramen.
Talking of efficient cameramen in India, we can count them on our fingers. Nitin
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Bose, Krishna Gopal, Avadoot, K. Dhaib P. S. Naik, and Faredoon Irani. There £ other good second raters, who used to good enough once but not now, with the cc siderable progress that has already been 1 13 corded by us in our film technique.
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As men, several of our cameramen a gentle folks and vary sharply with the gen ral sort of directors we have, especially human attributes.
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It may be due to want of enterprise < perhaps due to lack of facilities or for son reason or other, but the major number < them are far from efficient.
More men and certainly better men : | once again the crying need of progress.
And better men can only come if the are better paid, for, compared with the spoil n shared by the directors, the cameramen ar D poorly paid.
And this aspect of the job is keeping better men away. There are plenty of wel f trained amateurs in the country who woulc I only too willingly stake their future if giver H the opportunity to do so.
Get us better cameramen!
BETTER STORIES.
In the early days when Indian films were a novelty, any trash or nursery tale that was given was joyfully accepted. That was a stage of novelty and the people who were not looking out for anything serious or artistic, were satisfied with what they got.
But now after the rapid progress of technique and the introduction of numerous gpod stories both Indian and Foreign, people do want serious provocative themes which j
DECEMBER BRAIN TWISTER
Prize of Rs. 10I-.
To the 1st correct solution picked up at random from our mail.
Five school girls wrote home the result of their examination. It was, however, agreed that in writing home, each girl should make one true statement and one untrue one.
This is what each of them wrote:—
BETTY: "Kitty was second in examination. I was only third".
ETHEL: "You will be glad to hear that I was top. Joan was second".
JOAN: "I was third and poor Ethel was bottom".
KITTY: "I came out second. Mary was only fourth".
MARY: "I was fourth. Top place was taken by Betty".
What in fact was the order in which the five girls were placed?
Only one prize will be given: Address replies to: The Editor: " 'lmindia".