NEWS FILMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1942, Page 4

NEWS FILMS

GOING TO RUSSIA FROM BRITAIN. CONSIGNMENTS EVERY WEEK. By aeroplane and ship, news film “shorts” are going out to Russia from Britain at the rate of five a week. In the last two months alone, 64 news reels and 20 short films have been sent oil, and a programme of 24 specially prepared shorts and news reels is unuer way —a total of more than 100 films for 1942. Among those which have already leii is one snowing how production is kept going in Britain’s aircraft and muni lion factories; another, how convoy ships work; a third, how Britain’s armed forces are trained. “ A special film, presented as A TaK of Two Cities,” was an outstanding success It was made from. “London Can Take It” and “Target For Tonight” and incorporated tne bombing of Moscow. Recently Soviet producers put together 20 British film “shorts about the war effort and made them into two news reels of 10 films each. Special films sent to the Soviet are now being done entirely m Russian with Russian commentaries. Among many which are leaving Britain soon are “Four British Airmen,” based on the training and fighting of the four airmen who lately received the Order of Lenin for their work in Russia; and “A House in London,” about Lenin’s house on which a commemorative plaque was recently unveiled. There are at least 10,000 cinemas in Soviet Russia, not including thousands of clubs and halls which show films and the mobile film units which travel up and down Russia’s front line.