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Wiihmit Comment.
NATIONAL FILM BOARD
CANADA
GOVERNMENT
Ottawa, October 12, 194$.
FILM COMMISSIONER
Mr. Barburao Patel,
Filmindia Publications,
55 Sir Phirozeshah Mehta Road,
Fort, Bombay,
India.
Dear Mr. Patel:
I was dining the other night with Mr. T. A. Raman in Washington and chanced to say that I thought Filmindia the most exciting film paper in the world, after Variety in New York. Mr. Raman said it was shameful of me to say this to him, without saying it to you. I hope it may be of some satisfaction to you to know that over the years, many of us in other countries have looked on' your paper with delight and particularly because of the intimate manner of its approach, both to films and to film audiences.
Above all, I congratulate you on a degree of frankness and gaiety in your journalism which I envy, and which I assure you conveys to readers of your journal in other countries, a warm sense of contact with your film world, your film problems, and your film people.
John Grierson — served R.N.V.R. 7945, Film Officer, Empire Marketing Board 1 928-3 j. Associated in the formation of Empire Marketing Board Film Unit, Empire Film Library, G. P. O. Film Unit, Film Centre, British Documentary Film movement, Imperial Relations Trust, Films of Scotland Committee; Member of Cinematograph Films Council. At present Government Film Commissioner, National Film Board of Canada. Producer of several documentaries including " Drifters", "Industrial Britain", ''Song of Ceylon" and " B. B. C."
Yours sincerely,
Johr Grierson.