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and technicians have recently organised the so-

called 'Cinema Workers' Co-operative' which will

start production in the near future.

The Co-operative's first film will have the

the English

Chinese title of 'The Fiery Phoenix'

title to be used is not yet known and will be

directed by Wang Wei-Yi.

Sale of Scripts.

The pro-Communist elements have started to

sell veiled pro-Communist scripts (written by local

pro-Communists or Communist authors in China) to

liberal producers with the assurance that, when such

scripts are filmed, they will have no trouble with

the censors in China. These scripts are considerably

cheaper than the scenarios written by the local

liberal screen playwrights.

As many producers are interested in earning

enough Chinese currency to maintain their offices

and dependents in China, there is no reason why

they should not buy such superficially harmless

scripts. The fact that those scripts are much

cheaper is another inducement.

The pro-Communists usually permit the buyer

of those scripts to substitute a pseudonym for the

scenarists real name with a view to evading the

Singapore censor's attention.

Infiltration into New Territory.

The pro-Communists are planning to infiltrate

Recently

into new territories in South East Asia.

the South China Film Company sent a group to Siam

to make location shots, under the leadership of

Tan Yu-lu, a pro-Communist Cantonesc director.

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