Indian News Parade
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| Produced by | Information Films of India, Central Cine Corporation |
| Country | India |
Indian News Parade was a cinematic newsreel produced by the Indian government between September 1943 and April 1946. Originally named Indian Movietone News, it was produced in response to the Anglo-centric newsreels created by British and American companies. It suffered a poor critical reception, and production ceased shortly after the end of World War II.
After a trip to Hollywood in 1940, film producer Ambalal Patel pitched the idea of a weekly Indian newsreel to the British Government in India.Indian News Parade was subsequently established in September 1942 by Patel and Sir Edward Villiers, under the name Indian Movietone News. In an attempt to make the newsreels more accessible to the local population, Villiers intended to focus the content primarily on civil matters, a departure from other newsreels of the day which were heavily Eurocentric. Some of the other newsreels circulated in India at the time were British Movietone News, British Paramount News, United News and Gaumont British News, which all carried a distinct British or American bias, and although sometimes dubbed into local languages, were unpopular with the Indian population.
Whilst subsidised by the government, Indian Movietone News was originally intended to be independently produced and distributed. Early newsreels were produced by Twentieth Century Fox India, and were largely reissued versions of British Movietone newsreels dubbed into Indian languages. These were criticised by the Ministry of Information and Film India for their failure to address the country's social issue and the developing war in Europe, and were not widely circulated. In April 1943, the Indian government issued a directive under the Defence of India Act which required Indian cinemas to show Indian Movietone News (or other newsreels directly approved by the government) in an attempt to force it on an unwilling audience, a move which was heavily disapproved of. In order to better fulfil this directive, in 1943 Indian Movietone News was scrapped and replaced with the government-controlled Indian News Parade, now produced and distributed by Information Films of India.
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