FilmIndia (1939)

Record Details:

Title:
FilmIndia
Date:
1939
Publisher:
Bombay
Volume:
FilmIndia (1939)
Leaf #:
000129
Language:
English
Collection:
Global Cinema and India
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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Proprietors: Filmindia Publications Ltd., 104, Apollo Street, Fort, Bombay Editor: BABURAO PATEL Vol. 5 MARCH 1939 No. 3 > SuLtcripltoH : Inland Rs. 5/urma O Foreign Rs. 8/Slngle Copy As. 8 GIRL ON THE COVER SULOCHANA in PREM-KI-JYOT (Ruby Pictures) "ILis glantel Thud gty" "Gunga Din" is coming to India. But before it does so, it will go all over the world and tell the world that Indians are sadistic barbarians and unfaithful dogs who need the stern rule of their white masters to teach them to behave like faithful dogs, which incidentally is the ideal life prescribed for the treacherous, scheming and unscrupulous "natives" of India. "Gunga Din" is produced by the R.K.O. Radio Pictures Corporation of America. It will be interesting to recall that far back in 1933 that scandalous picture "India Speaks" was also produced by the R.K.O. Radio. A storm of protest swept throughout our country and the tins of "India Speaks" were returned back to America even without being submitted to the Censors, saving the Indians the mortification of seeing a disgusting libel against themselves and their nation. But the rest of the world — the white world to be accurate — received .the picture with enthusiasm and millions in every corner of the world got through the American 'keyhole' a cock-eyed peep of India and her "natives". To justify their own barbarity in keeping the coloured races as slaves for the white mas