FilmIndia (1946)

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F t LMINDIA May, 1946 a resolution demanding abolition of the Sales Tax, raided on the 3rd March three cinema houses in Dacca, one after another, stopped the shows, set fire to the screens and the furniture and completely wrecked the machinery. Aren't we progressing towards 1 1 eedom ? LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR J. Arthur Rank, the celluloid menace of Great Britain, threatens to make a major picture for world exhibition with an Indian background. He has named it, "The Black Narcissus" and to emphasise the black in the flower he has put Sabu in it and is going to give us the story of the English Nuns and their work in India. Black Narcissus will be a dark story all right if all that the white nuns do in proselytizing is told. Arthur Rank seems to be a Good Christian. IS HOLLYWOOD COPYING? Not conversant with the technique of shooting used by H.M.V. Chaturbhuj of Ranjit, John Farrow of Hollywood is claiming original rights in his shooting of "California", a technicolour production. Farrow thinks that he is saving a lot of money by jettisoning the old method of shooting the movies in bits and then putting the bits together to make a whole. In "California" Farrow shot whole pages of the script at a time thus getting the long shots, the midshots and close-ups all on one strip. There are several 4 minute shots in "California" and in one scene he has shot 800 feet without stopping the camera. That he rehearses all the shots several times and perfectly is altogether another story. Farrow says that his camera follows the action of his film, like the human eye, without hopping about from place to place. Farrow doesn't know that the human eye does hop about without Farrow knowing it. 4>«j This new method of shooting is called "Camera Writing." And whatever Hollywood may think of John Farrow, the originality of this technique we place at the door of H.M.V. Chaturbhuj who goes round and round with the trolley with his artistes in the centre till everyone in the world gets fed up, including the trolley. No one can "Write" with the camera as well as H.M.V. Chaturbhuj of Ranjit. STILL ANOTHER? Piqued by the killing payments which have to be made to Technicolor, Hollywood has been searching for a long time for a cheaper colour system which would not cost so much and yet give the same results. The latest adventure in this field is called Thomascolor. Evidently some Thomas is in it. It is claimed that this is a simpler system which requires only the conventional black and white negative and the cameras. There is a catch in it, however, as a special lens is needed for the camera and an identical one has to be fitted to the projector. Irritated by the monopoly of Technicolor, Hollywood people are doing a lot of wishful thinking ahout Thomascolor. LANGUAGE OF ULTIMATUMS The British people are showing a lot of sporting spirit these days. Their chief sportsman in the film industry is J. Arthur Rank. He is developing international sportsmanship, the way HAMAM May also be called the big soap at small cost. The reputation for quality, its standard weight and low cost in these days of soaring prices and its rich and fragrant lather has made it the leading soap of India. Stocks are available everywhere— Ask your dealer for Hamam. THE TATA OIL MILLS COMPANY LIMITED 60