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flflahatma Gandhi Becomes a Film Star
Will The Film Of The Saint Of Shegaon Break World-Records of Popularity ?
II Unique Picture of a Unique Personality
Mahatma Gandhi recently condemned the Cinema as an evil on par with gambling and liquor drinking. One may wonder if he is aware that he is the subject of a unique film now under production. He is not only the subject of this film but also the principal star and he will be seen in practically every scene. It is to be a film biography of the man who hates cinema, never seer films and who is reputed to have naively asked "Who "is Charlie Chaplin?" when a meeting was arranged in London between India's greatest living man and the screen's most beloved comedian!
The "production" of this picture has taken more time than the biggest super-super-spectacle of Hollywood. For, most of the scenes in the film have been taken from old newsreels, collected from the four corners of the earth. And it took the "producer" two years to scour the wnrlct in search of them. The result is a film which is expected to be more than the screen biography of India's greatest man. It is the story uf an era in Indian history— the Gandhian era!
"Mahatma Gandhi" is the first ambitious production of Documentary Films Limited, a concern float
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Mahatma Gandhi — as a young barrister in Johannesburg — one of the earliest photos of the Saint of Shegaon,
ed three years ago in Madras, with the object of producing documentary films of Indian life. The original author of the scheme and the Managing Director of Documentary Films, Ltd., is A. K. Chettiar, a young South Indian.
Chettiar, who is a trained cinei.iatographer and worked in the United States for a year as a newsreel cameraman for Pathe News, brought to bear upon the proiected film the latest technique of maKing documentary pictures in the newsreel tradition. The material for the film was to be collected from all available newsreels in which Mahatma Gandhi has figured though, of course, many photographs, newspaper posters and headlines would also go into it to fill up the gaps and give a complete continuity. Only a few documentary films have hitherto been made on these lines — "Czar to Lenin" and "Three Songs of Lenin" in Soviet Russia. Bernard Shaw's "King*s Feople" about the reign of King George V and Hemingway-Joris Jvens' "Spanish Earth."
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