PROPAGANDA FILMS
Sir,—The excellent films shown at Jellicoe Hall by the Immigration Welfare Committee for the benefit of those Christchurch residents who are endeavouring to understand the problems of Hungarian refugees moved me to wonder why the Western democracies do not occasionally issue salutary warnings against the tyrannies of communism, in the shape of documentaries, to the ordinary cinema-going public. Many New Zealanders last night must have pondered deeply on the true story of the two young Hungarian dancers who were ordered to appear at a command performance in East Berlin, and who were kept under the strictest surveillance by a selected escort, as if they were convicts on ticket-of-leave. By a trick they managed to evade him and escaped to the West; a beautifully natural film, in which the tension of this tragic, and, to us, unthinkable, situation was grimly and graphically stressed. —Yours, etc., I. TREW. January 16, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28178, 17 January 1957, Page 11
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