SOVIET FILMS REPLACE US FILMS IN CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600270260-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 260
• Publication Date: December 8, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC REPORT
INFCRMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
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Sociological; Economic - Motion pictures
Daily newspapers
Bangkok; Hong Kon
27 Oct, 3 Nov 1949
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DATE DIST. N0 1949
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
CCP WELCOM SOPIBT FIINS -- Chuen-min Pao, 3 Nov 49
The motion-picture business is one of the important arts which has a very
wide appeal; therefore, in the building of a New China it deserves close attention.
Lang ago the psychology and technology of Soviet films surpassed those of
capitalist countries. In the past, under US imperialism, movie fans in China
rarely saw Soviet films, least of all any which carried deep educational meaning
for the working classes. The reactionaries forced patrons to see vile American
films. Records show that in the old China about 400 films were imported annually,
three fourths of them from the US.
We must get riff of these Pad fume af& supply native and foreign films that
benefit the people. We have already begun to produce some films but the supply
is insufficient. The Soviet Union can furnish us with fine cultural food. Only
with her help can our cinema business be revolutionized quickly.
I hope that many Soviet files will be furnished with Chinese words, and I
charge 'our film-makers with this as one of their important tasks. Only in this
manner will Soviet films be widely accepted and understood by our people. -- Iu
Ting-19 chairmen, propaganda section, Central Committee, COP
MARKET FCR US PICTURES DECtI1IPG -- Hain-sheng Wan-pao, 27 Oct 49
The Columbia Motion Picture Company's Far Eastern market, already reduced
considerably after the fall of Plies-ching and Shang-hai, will soon be gone con-
pletely if the current attitude of the Chinese Communists in South China continues.
This will be a severe blow to the US motion picture industry.
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The genra1 manager of the overseas branch and the manager of the Isar Saet
Division of the Coluibia Notion Picture Company a--rived at Hong Kong on 26 Oc-
tober 1949, to study the conditions of the Hong Song motion picture industry.
They will also deal with problem of company employees who are still in China
and of Several hundred reels of films which are in Communist areas.
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