SECRET FILM SERVICE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1942, Page 4

SECRET FILM SERVICE

f SWISS SEE LONDON BLITZ. Swiss movie enthusiasts have just seen “London Can Take It,” the picture of Londoners defying the Nazis raiders. How it got to Switzerland will be told when the war is over. Britain has developed a highly efficient secret film service. Today, by bombing plane, air mail and surface craft she is sending out a regular ■ stream of films at the rate of 300 a ( week. In one week 309 reels went off to 59 territories ranging from Arabia ' and Australia to Russia and the Neth- ■ erlands East Indies. Many were ordinary comedies like - Ginger Rogers in “Tom, Dick and ■ Harry” or the technicolour “Down Ar- ' gentine 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 ter- , ritories to look at something sent by , Dr. Goebbels. < Commentary or dialogue is added in ‘ Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish, ( Turkish, Persian and Dutch, and for •> dialogue the Films Division of the ] Ministry 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. '