FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

ly, 1949 FILMliN I) 1 A RATHER CONSIDERATE Madras, May 26. ' The Government of Madras have jmed orders prohibiting smoking I dance and cinema halls in the liole pro\ince except Madras city, tie ban on smoking in cinemas, how ler, will be extended to the Madras I v later. RED FILM BANNED! Madras. May 26. The Co\ eminent of Madras have llowed in the footsteps of the other •o governments. U.P. and Bihar, ■ banning the Russian film "She fends her country". "No Greater »ve" (its English \ersionl and .ladre Watan" 'its Hindustani ver ii | j in the w hole of the province. HULLO, MORARJi: Cntlack, V:<\ 21. Mr. Ghosh, Superintendent of dice. Cuttack, seems to realize the iue of the filn. in the field of eduition. With the co-operation of his ;iff. he i producing a film about affic accidents, dacoity, robbery c, to train the police and the pub; in regard to their duties and resmsibilities. The commentary will ■ in Oriya. Hindi and English, nother screenplay written by Mi. hosh is called. "The glorie oi rissa?1 which will incidentally show e beaut) spots of Orissa Mich as andagiri Caves, the Bhuwaneshwar ample and the Jagannath Puri ■mple. What about Morarji's boys? AMATEUR SHOITING: London. May 29. An interesting device which makeund possible with 8 mm films. i> racting th.? attention <>1 amateur le-enthusiasts at the British Indues Eair now showing in London d Birmingham. A thin cellulose tape coated on e side with a powered iron comrand i attached to the cinema proctor. The tape is run through the ojector at (he same time a? the film, ith thi' help of a microphone, the rson can record a sound commenry or dialogue or e\cn mu>ic and ay it back immediately with the tn. The recording i.» permanent while 3 tape can be erased in parts to rrect errors. After the sound ick has served its purpose it can be "washed" and used all over again for recording new sound. So here s something to tickle amateur cine-enthusiasts and make them go hoarse talking and singing! DEPORTING CHAPLIN ! Washington D.C., May 15. U.S.A. Senator Cain has submitted a statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee saying that Charlie Chaplin be deported from U.S.A. because he sent a message to the French painter. Picasso, to head a committee of French artists to protest to the U.S. embassy in Paris against the Hans Eisler affair. Hans Eisler is the brother of Gerhard Eisler and a song writer and an alleged Communist. He had deportation proceedings against him. CAUSE OF COMMUNISM! Moscow, May 11. Soviet writer Tatiana Tess in "Izvestia has compared American and Russian films thus: "To stupefy and poison the consciousness of man. to show vice, murder and crime — the basest and darkest sides of human soul". The Russian films, however, show "a bright and noble world of great feelings. They have a high ideology and the lives of their fighting heroes are exampleof service to the motherland, to the cause of Communism". Don't miss the words, "to the cause of Communism" ! No wonder the different provincial governments are banning some of the propagandaladen Russian films. BLACK MUSIC? Durban. May 30. The South African Broadcasting Corporation has banned the broadcasting of the recordings of Paul Robeson's songs, one of the world s greatest singers, because he is a Negro. The Broadcasting Corporation has to fall in with Dr. Malan's ideas of racial prejudice, even in the sphere of art. ASKING AND ANSWERING: Filmindia s chronic prize winner. A. X. Xarayana Rao. broadcast a talk in Kanarese on Wednesday the 1st June on "The Art of Questioning" from the Akashvani Broadcasting station, Mysore. It is said that the broadcasting authorities seeing his innumerable questions being answered from month to month in "filmindia" asked him to give a short talk in Kanarese which Xarayana Rao willingly accepted. What about a talk. "The Art of \nswering". from the guy who attends to 16.000 letters every month? 65