THE LONDON BLITZ
BRITAIN'S SECRET FILM SERVICE REACHES 59 COUNTRIES A WEEK. Swiss movie fans have just seen "London Can Take It," the picture of Londoners defying the Nazi raiders. How it got Switzerland will be told when the Avar is over. Britain has developed a highly efficient secret film service. To-day, by bombing plane, air mail and surface craft she is sending out a regular stream of. films at the rate of 000 a week. In one week 309 reels went oft' to 50 territories ranging from Arabia and Australia to : Russia and the Netherlands East Indies. Many were ordinary comedies, like Ginger Rogers in "Tom. Dick and Harry" or the technicolour "Down Argentine Way" with Carmen Miranda. These are given special facilities by Britain's Ministry of Information out of sympathy for audiences who might otherwise be compelled in certain territories tc< look at something sent by Dr Goebbels. Commentary or dialogne is added in Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Persian and Dutch, and for dialogue the Films Division of the Ministrj* of Information have adopted the special technique of the British- film industry for fitting the sounds in these different languages to the lip movements of British or American players.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 49, 6 May 1942, Page 3
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