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large Indian community is broadcast on this sound channel every Sunday morning. The rental fee is $55 a month, including receiving unit and all maintenance. For subscribers who have their own television sets the monthly rental is $25, which covers the pro- gramme fee and full maintenance.
Following typhoon Wanda Rediffusion organized a series of charity broadcasts over its sound and television networks. The public showed unprecedented generosity and the company was able to hand a record sum of $511,500 to the Community Relief Trust Fund. In one of the broadcasts Rediffusion worked in association with the Wah Kiu Yat Po and the Sing Tao Press. In another it presented a seven-hour performance by Sun Mah Sze Tsan, the famous Cantonese opera and film star.
FILM INDUSTRY
Hong Kong is one of the largest film producing territories in the world. During 1962 the Colony's six major studios and many independent producers maintained a high output and produced 272 feature films in Chinese for distribution locally and over- seas. Local and resident cameramen working for various newsreel and television companies continued during the year to supply items about Hong Kong to their overseas distributors. Film and televi- sion production units also continued to visit the Colony in large numbers, the 1962 visitors including film-makers from America, Australia, West Germany and Japan.
Studio production costs are governed by the limited market available. China does not import Hong Kong films and the total audience in Taiwan and among overseas Chinese living in the Philippines and south-east Asia amounts to only about 25 million. Producers must therefore concentrate on quantity rather than quality in order to show a profit. However, several of the larger studios turn out at least one major production costing up to $1 million each year and at the Ninth Asian Film Festival held in Seoul in May, Hong Kong again won honours. Lin Dai won the best actress award for her performance in the Shaw Brothers film Love Without End, which also won an award for the best theme song.
Cinema-going is undoubtedly the most popular pastime in Hong Kong and there are now 74 cinemas with 78,851 seats. Hong Kong