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January, 1946
FILMINDIA
supervision of the Auckland Association and the New Zealand Council, have managed to get a coaching film made for junior cricketers.
Slow motion shots provide a wonderful guide for stroke-making and foot work as demonstrated by no lesser persons than Don Bradman, Lindsay Hassett and Bill Brown. The bowling department is looked after by people like Grimmett and O'Reilly. This film will be shown to thousands of cricket enthusiasts all over Australia and New Zealand and is expected to replace personal coaching by senior players who are not available. The film is doing its part in other countries.
In India when our cricketers get into the field, they sweat and drop ghee. There is nothing to photograph in that.
ARTISTES' ANNUAL MEET
The Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Film Artistes' Association of India took place on the 1 8th November at their Headquarters in Bombay. The following Office Bearers were elected: Mr. Sohrab Modi (The President), Mr. Pahari Sanyal (Vice-President), Mr. David Abraham (Hon. Treasurer) and Members of the Executive Committee Mr. Prithviraj Kapoor, Mr. Jagdish Sethi, Mr. Minoo Cooper, Miss Mehtab, Mr. Navin Yagnik, Mr. K. N. Singh and Mr. Balraj Mehta.
"Gvalan" is a spectacular picture even though it has a social story. Here is a set in which Bipin Gupta calls a crowd of astrologers.
TO THE READER
Along with this issue is given an insert of a Tri-colour Art Plate of Miss Sushila Rani. If your copy doesn't contain this refuse to pay for the copy. A few spare copies of this beautiful tri-colour insert, worth framing, will be available from the Offices of "film
The Arab Sheikh (Master Vithal) and the Arabic Leila (Khurshid) "Song of Desert", a Tagriti picture.
india" on payment of Re. 1I4 in cash or by money order.
WEDDING BELLS
12th December — Bidasar, Bikaner. Pandit Indra, the well-known writer of screen stories, songs and what not, invited all and sundry, thousand miles away from Bombay, for the wedding of his daughter Savitri. Few took the risk of the long travel and Marwadi food at the end. All luck to the bridel
AND MORE BELLS
Warning people not to send any presents, Multi-millionaire Kapurchand Mehta invited over a thousand guests on the 9th December at Kapur Mahal, Marine Drive, to witness the wedding of his son Vrajlal. They need more people to share the huge fortune and we hope Vrajlal will contribute to the family population.
MOURNING A PIONEER
It is reported from Paris that M. Henri Joly, the French scientist who was closely associated with the invention of motion pictures has died at the age of 79 after a long illness. It is said that the late M. Joly has been regardeJ as a pioneer in motion picture projectors and cameras with the same respect and status which the late Thomas A. Edison enjoyed.
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