So much publicity has been giver of late years to the doings of agitators and trouble makers i India, that it comes as a very freshing change to read that a roup of influential Indians have formulated "million pound" scheme to finance the showing of British films in their Jcountry. They complain that India has for too long been inundated with Hollywood's worst, and that the presentation of sordid misleading domestic pictures of European li offers a dangerous handle for the use of anti-British agitators and) fanatics. 'The peoplet of India are many and varied and they differ from each other to an astounding' degree. But the great majority are! remarkable for a certain childlike'
simplicity and credulousness which Jeads them to accept the distorted efforts of the worst type of American and Continental producers as typicd of European life and ways of thought. One is sometimes incl to wonder if the film has not done its quota of harm along the same Tines in China also, though in justice: to the Chinese people it must be said that they possess a certain shrewdness of judgment Incking the mature of the Indian which is likely to lead them to accept such picturizations with reserve. Nevertheless, the screen could afford excellent" material for British propaganda in China if rightly used, and it ig a matter for regret that do not see more British films here than we do.
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