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THE EUROPEAN CINEMA
struggle for water and their fight against the Arabs. Years later Herbert Kline, the American documentary film-maker, took a unit there including Meyer Levine, the film critic, and Floyd Crosbie, the photographer of many American documentaries. Their film My Father's House, a documentary with a human story, is not yet released having been edited and synchronised in New York. The equipment left by this unit was taken over by Norman Lourie, of Palestine Film Productions, who has made a moving and quite good short film on one of the Dead Sea settlements, The House in the Desert (1947). Another film reported completed, The Soil, on the Ben Shemen's Children's Village, has been made by a mixed team of technicians some from European production in the old days. The Great Promise, directed by Josef Leytes, shown widely in Great Britain, was not more than a glorified travel picture.
There is not much of real importance to record of indigenous film-making in Asia and Africa. Shakuntala (1947) and Sable Cicada (1938) revealed little change in Hindu and Chinese methods of producing films based on mythology and religion, and the addition of sound seems to have confirmed both national cinemas, as well as the Japanese, in their adherence to stage traditions. The Indian films, produced in great numbers and still at great length, seem bound to historical and religious subjects and usually overloaded with songs. For a time during the war some quite good documentaries were made in India under the supervision of, first, Alexander Shaw and later, J. B. Holmes, both loaned from the British documentary group, but production now seems almost to have lapsed. There is talk of re-establishing the Information Films of India unit but to date it has not materialised. The Indian People's Theatre Association has launched into film production and its first work Children of the Earth (Dharti he Lai), a theme of hunger and famine in a Bengal village, is said to strike a new and progressive note in Indian production but it has not, at the time of writing, been exported. One
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