Document details

The Film in Colonial Development

London: British Film Institute (bfi) (1948), 53 pp.
"Report of a congress held in London in January 1948 under the chairmanship of Mr A. M. Crawley, MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies — Opening discussion: the film and primitive peoples — The commercial aspect of films intended for the colonies — Making films for illiterate people in Africa — Some special aspects of colonial film production — Financial problems and prospects for the film in the British colonies." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 825, topic code 320)