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May, 1948
LIGHTNING STRIKE!
Calcutta, April 9. ! Subsequent to the theft of a jendant fan from the local Jyoti Cinema, the electrician in charge ibf all electric fittings and repairs kvas dismissed and a few others from the staff suspended till investigation. Thereupon the operating staff and a few others resorted Ito strike without notice just 15 minutes before the 8-30 show on [the 7th instant, but with the help lof the operating staff lent by sister cinema houses, the show ran as usual.
"HORRIFIC" FILM ON INDIA!
London, April 9.
The American producer of a "horrific" documentary film, "India Speaks", Mr. Walter Footer is in London to resume his 13-yearold battle with the censors here for permission to show it publicly. It is Mr. Footer himself who 6ays the film is "horrific".
He told Reuter, "It cost me over £50,000 to shoot the 300,000 feet of the film in India. We ispent four years travelling the length and breadth of the country and I chose the sequences of the sets on the basis of what >vas interesting, entertaining or horrible. Horror is good box-office. The film
has been a great success in the United States but what India or the Hindus think about it I would not know".
The film, explained Mr. Footer, runs for an hour and 20 minutes, the 300,000 feet having been reduced in the editing to about 7,000. Continuity is given to the changing scenes and incidents by a commentary by the late MrRichard Halliburton, American explorer and writer, who was lost at sea in a Chinese junk in 1939.
"When the war came", Mr. Footer said, "I dropped ray efforts to procure general release for the film. Now that peace has returned I am here once more to try to get permission to show the film. I have made an application to the London county council authorities and await the decision of the film censors.
"The film is authentic in every way. It is India. I called it "India Speaks" because it is on the same lines as another film I made, "Africa" Speaks", which, incidentally, cost only £10,000 to make and earned me £600,000."
MADRAS STRIKE POSTPONED
Madras, April 8. The South India Cinema Employees' Association, at its general
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body meeting at the Mahajan Sabha Hall, this morning, adopted unanimously a resolution withdrawing its notice to launch a strike from tomorrow. It was also resolved that the general body of the Association should meet after a period of one month to review the situation.
Mr. T. S. Ramanujam, President of the Association, addressing the gathering said that he had been informed by the Labour Commissioner that the Government would take steps to implement the award of the Industrial Tribunal.
Messrs. K. S. Gopalkrishnan, Shripada Shankar and R. Ramanujam asked the cinema employees to stand united and to strengthen the association.
BRITISH PLANNING GANDHI FILM
Los Angeles, April 6.
Film actor J. Carol Naish said today that he had been approached by an unnamed "wealthy British oil man" to play the part of Mahatma Gandhi in a motion picture of Gandhiji's life.
Naish said the deal was still "strictly in the talking stage" and refused to disclose the name of the Britisher. Discussion started at a Hollywood party two weeks ago where he met the oil man.
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