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and Cinoma Workers' Co-operative.

If a picture is directed and starred by well-

known pro-Communists with a script by a well-known

pro-Communist sereen playwright, there is no doubt

that it is a pro-Communist picture.

In case pro-Communist directors and scenarists

use pseudonyms, one has but to refer to the 'movic

supplement of the local Ta Kung Pao and Wen Hui Pao

to find out whether the film is pro-Communist

or not. If the film in question is praised, it

must be a pro-Communist picture, if it is condemned,

it is a liberal picture.

THE HALLMARK OF LIBERAL FILMS.

With

The easiest way to distinguish a liberal film is to

find out whether the director and the screen playwright are

both well-known liberals. If they are, then the film must

be a liberal film without any subversive underlying ideas,

although there may be a few pro-Communists in the cast.

only a limited number of good players in Hong Kong for the

casting director to pick, it is practically impossible to have

an entirely non-pro-Communist cast. Besides, those pro-

Communists who are willing to appear in a film directed by

a liberal and scripted by a liberal, cannot be real pro-

Communists in the eyes of the Communists,

GREAT WALL PICTORIAL MAGAZINE.

This magazine is recently published by Yuan Yang-an,

General Manager of the Great Wall film company, for the

purpose of spear-teading pro-Communist publicity in general in

Hong Kong and other South East Asian territories, and at the

same time heralding the coming productions of the Great Wall

and other pro-Communist film companies.

The first issue of the magazine is now available

in Hong Kong.