FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

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FILMINDI A March, Will there be a day when we will not have a single policeman? In Bombay nowadays I see more policemen than citizens. ARJAN D. BHARWANI (Ootacamund) I hate ladies wearing sleeveless blouses! So do I, especially eminent ladies with ugly arms. Now that India is free, what should be the programme of the Congress? Gandhi ji took the programme with him and didn't even leave behind a copy for our ministers. Can you explain why Chiang lost China? The Chinese did not like hot-dogs and doughnuts. They preferred sauerkraut and vodka. What about the income tax due to India by the producers who have migrated to the Garden of Allah? Pakistan will collect it and keep it. RAJESH N. SAXENA (Bhiwani) What are the things worth seeing in Bombay? Marine Drive, Maharaj Singh and Morarji Desai. How will you feel if some gentleman sitting behind you in a picture house happens to rest his legs on the back of your chair just above your shoulders? / / some one does that to me there wont be a gentleman left in the chair behind me. ISHWAR V. MAHBUBANI (Bombay) If romance is the privilege of the rich, what is profession of the unemployed? Dreams! They are free and fantastic. What do you think of the person who stole the shi of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru at a recent public meeti in New Delhi? A practical man! He got something at least i of our Prime Minister. We get only high flo lectures. P. V. KUPPUSWAMY (Trichinopoly) Welcoming Minister Morarji Desai, Chandulal Sh the producers' president said, "We are poor, we are weij we are helpless. We have nothing to offer you exec thanks and flower garlands." What did he really me by that? That he has race horses, motor cars, palaces a what not but no power. While the Congress Minisi has power but nothing else. That is how both part, became 'helpless'. • Has the advice of the Home Minister Morarji De to the film producers at the Ranjit Studio had any effec Nowadays when some one mentions Minisi Morarji' s name, they ask each other: "Who is th man?" In this the producers are only following t Congress leaders — all promises and no action. It T_J ERE'S the camera you've been *■ * waiting for . . a perfect 33 mm. miniature at a moderate price the famous Retina available again after many long years! So small (only 4%" x 3" x I'/i"). it can becarried easily in the pocket, yet it's ready in a moment to produce negatives of beautiful quality capable of great enlargement. The Retina's features include: 5 cm. lens (as below), giving great depth of focus, Compur Rapid Shutter with speeds of 1 to 1/500 sec, film lock to prevent double exposure, automatic film centering for rapid winding, plunger-type body-release, and a brilliant direct-vision view-finder. Ask your Kodak dealer now about this fine camera. f.3.5 (LEFT) THE With SchneiderXenar coated lens. 1 at In addition to crisp! brilliant blackand-white pictures, the Retina gives superb natural-colout shots with ynAnrhrome film. . (ABOVE) THE Schneider Xenon six-element coated f. 2 lens, coupled range-finder. Other advanced models of Kodak cameras are coming in from time to time. Keep in close touch with your Kodak dealer. KODAK LTD. (Incorporated 1* England) Bombay Calcutta • Madroi • Lahore Karachi 20