FilmIndia (Dec 1937 - Apr 1938)

Record Details:

Title:
FilmIndia
Date:
Dec 1937 - Apr 1938
Publisher:
Bombay
Volume:
FilmIndia (1937-38)
Leaf #:
00083
Language:
English
Collection:
India and Global Cinema
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 01, 2024
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Tutluation Office ; 104, Apollo St., Bombay PHONE : 28752 Calcutta OffU> : 183, Dharamtalla Street £on?ou Office 145, Wardour Street, London W.I. jatntription Inland Rs. 4/Burma &■ Foreign Rs. 7/ filniimlia Editor BJIBURAO PATEL Dol 3 JAI1UARQ 1938 No 9 PRODUCERS OR BLACKMAILERS? 9(: AVE you ever heard of synthetic black mail? Well, you ought to know it by now if you have been following the fortunes of the Indian film industry. Synthetic blackmail is not the real product, but it has in it enough semblance of the real stuff to distinguish it from honest business. It is synthetic because it is practised by amateurs. It is a pity that some of our producers have taken up this new vocation of practising synthetic blackmail especially where our film journals are concerned. The recently formed Indian Motion Picture Producers" Association seems to have provided some of the producers with an excuse for putting the screw upon the several film journals when these journals dare to express any candid opinion about men and things in the industry. Not that the Association is in any way directly responsible for this new racket. In fact, the Association would condemn any such practice if it was brought to the notice of the Executive Committee.