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July, 1946
FILM INDIA
Recruit M. S. Malik of 1312 Bhati Gate, Lahore, is 17 years and is anxious to work in the films He looks quite a type.
apparatus and even the drone of the engine is not heard. That's because the pictures are not recorded by Indian recordists who would have given not only the drone but an air crash complete, all within a few feet of music.
FLYING 'ARTISTES'
From a snake to a lion you can hire anything in Hollywood for a price. The latest hiring out organization guarantees 475 Air Force Planes for use in films. They include 226 Liberators and 78 Flying Fortresses. The whole fleet had originally cost the U. S. A. Treasury £29,000,000.
So next time when you sec Hollywood's aeroplane sequences, remember they have their own tamed ones performing for money.
TEACHING THEM ECONOMY
Hollywood studios, accustomed to spend on settings Rs. 400.000. have been asked to cut their cost to a maximum of Rs. 45,000 a set as the Federal authorities want more building material to build now homes for the returning soldiers.
No one can stop the film folks froui doing what they want, particularly wasting money, and let us see whether we can see the results of this austerity drive on the screen. For all we know future Hollywood sets will be bigger than the dreams of the Federal authorities.
RANK'S HEADACHE
Twenty miles out of London and covering 200 acres alongside the Thames, Sir Alexander Korda has secured Sound City valued at Rs. 12.000,000. That gives Korda the largest studio space in England and so much more room to compete with Arthur Rank.
BUT WHO LISTENS?
Inspired by Rai Bahadur Chuni Lall. when the Executive Committee of the Producers' Association invited the Home Minister
Morarji Desai the other day, the Minister turned round and told the over-wise producers that the present-day films were too frivolous to become a popular medium for moulding the juvenile and uneducated mind on proper lines. He didn't want the films to be puritanic but he wanted the producers to show greater social responsibility in the execution of their work, which, according to Minister Morarji Desai, was very important for the future of the nation.
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