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film writers are doing double work, on their own schedules and on short propaganda films. Some of their highly ingenious favourite characters from well-known films stepping from the screen to address the audience, show them new and old scenes mixed by trickwork and draw morals from them etc. Pudovkin is turning out war shorts and Dovzhenko was doing the same in Kiev to the last moment. There are series of newsreel cameramen at the front.
FIDDLING XEROS OF INDIA
Modern warfare is exceedingly complex and implies the intensive and efficient training of the men engaged therein. These methods have long implied full use of illustrative material which of late years have been more adequately supplied through the film. Moving pictures have given a reality and a vitality to the work of illustration in schools and they have obvious application to the problem of training the youth for efficiency in the fighting forces. In Soviet Russia map-reading (animated maps illustrating tactics, the geographical control of strategy are obviously iai superior to any still diagram however well described', weapon training, naval fights, airraid precautions, guerilla warfare etc. are taught to the citizens through the medium of cinema.
In contrast to the magnificent cinema work done in Soviet Union. India did nothing to educate its masses during peace time, and is doing practically nothing to face the invasion when the enemy is at its doors. We are having here film shows which have no value beyond simple entertainment. We are not having even tuough newsreels depicting the war which could give us some idea as to what the modern war means.
In America, in Great Britain, in U.S.S.R.. there are special theatres devoted to newsreels and educational films, but here in India we have not even suitable side programmes to prepare us io face the enemy. We are like Neros fddling wl.cn India is burning. Our specially ajuointed Film Advisory Lcard wastes its time and celluloid in the production of pictures depicting the life of society
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women. Why not produce films on A.R.P. — civil defence etc.
I do realise that I am expecting something that cannot happen in the present atmosphere of complacency.
The crux vt the problem is the need for a reil national government wherein the people must feel that it is their war.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has rightly declared that the top ruling
classes in England and in India complacently think a mighty lot of whatever little they concede to India. The real situation in India can best be put in Jawaharlal's words — "Those who in Delhi were having their tea at a regular hour, disposed of files and dressed for dinner and attend dances would not win the war. If a National Government came all that complacency would disappear and there would be hell for the indolent and for the one whc dressed for dinner."
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