FilmIndia (1948)

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February, 1948 FILM INDIA ttecruit Surendra Kumar of 110. hew Blocks, Meerut Co lege, Meeut has played many stage roles in pllege dramatics and is an undergraduate who can sing. (lokhale. at the Jalirnwala Bagh. the Dandi March, at the Se:rad Round Table Conference in Midon and finally rt Delhi on |ie memorable August 15, 1947. A )ng Hindi commentary with aatches of English (and even |'rench in one place) explains the igeant of events on the screen. PATRIOTISM Prris, Jan. 5. The police charged a crowd of â– veral thousand film stars and ?hnicians for blocking traffic yesterday in the Place de la Republique. Several persons were injured and nearlv a dozen arrested. The demonstration of the crowd was made against the FranceAmerican Film Importation Agreement which reserves only four out of 13 weeks in French cinemas for showing French films. The rest, of course, are misappropriated by the Americans. STRIKE ENDS Bombay. Jen. 1 The Government of Bombay having ordered adjudication of the dispute between the workers and the management of the local Metro cinema, the 87 workers of the cinem? who had gone on strike from December 20 have resumed work from yesterday. FORGOT THEMSELVES! Rome, Dec. 21. Four persons were injured during the shooting of a scene of mob rioting for the film "Cagliostro" in which Orson Welles is playing the title role. The scene was that of a mass battle ?t an eighteenth century gypsy fair and was to start with a fire and end with the complete destruction of the fair built on the lee of the famous old church of St. John and St. Peul. L*. Col. Naval Gandhi is easily the most enterprising producer of documentaries we have in the country. His laiest, "The Story of Kashmir," is likely to be sent to America as vivid evidence of what the "raiders'' are doing to Kashmir. The hundred-odd actors and extras who were to play in it had been so worked up to the spirit of the battle that when the fire began and the cavalry charged, the cast began to riot in earnest. In India our extras don't remember what they are doing. Safer Motoring on the World's Leading Tyre Ttre$font THE ONLY GUM-DIPPED TYRE 55