1,000 FILMS FOR RUSSIA

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 71, 29 June 1942, Page 5

1,000 FILMS FOR RUSSIA

FIVE A WEEK NOW SHIPPED OR FLOWN FROM BRITAIN By aeroplane and ship, news film ".~horts" are going out to Russia from Britain at the rate of live a week. In the last two months alone, G4 news reels and 20 short films have been sent oil', and a programme of 24 specially prepared shorts and news reels is under way—a total of more than 100 lilms for 1942. Among those which have already left is one showing how production is kept going in Britain's aircraft i-'id. munition factories; another how convoj'- ships work; a third lioav Britain's armed forces are trained. A special film, presented as "x\. Tale of Two Cities," Avas an outstanding success. It Avas made from "London Can Take It" and "Target for To-night," and incorporated the bombing of Moscow. Recently Soviet nmdneers put together 20 British film "shorts'" about the Avar effort nnd made them into lavo iicavs reels of 10 lilms each. Special films sent to the Soviet are now being done entirely in Russian Avith Russian commentaries. Among many Avhieh are lea\ T ing Britain soon are "Four British Airmen," based on the training and fighting of the four airmen Avho lately received the Order of Lenin for their Avork in Russia; and "A House in London," about Lenin's house on Avhieh a commemorative plaque Avas recently unveiled. There are at least 10,000 cinemas in SoA'iet Russia, not including thousands of clubs and halls Avliich show films and the mobile film units which traA r el up and. down Russia's front line.