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Show BERLIN-MADE MOVIES INVADE WORLD MARKET r.v FRANK E MASON International Sew Service Btall ( ,0 1 piMiib nt. BERLIN Oct 30. German movie producers are mobilizing to Invade the world film market The great general staff of the associated film producers Will not make a direct frontal attack with waving banners bearing the familiar old legend. Made ,n Germany." but h ive planned an offensive of-fensive of quiet camouflaged penetration. pene-tration. . . Everything typically German Is bc-Ing bc-Ing excluded from the new productions produc-tions and the most rabid Ilun-haler will Bit through the performance with real plea-sure and not the least suspicion sus-picion that the source of his entertainment enter-tainment is the land of hi.s former enemy. en-emy. The films of modern society stories the greatest care is taken to Create an atmosphere which might as readily represent Washington, London or Paris as Berlin. In outdoor scenes there is never a German sjgn or billbourd to betray the export soil asm an who Is charged With selling the American. British and French rights The villain doesn't drop his blackmail letter into some Land Berlin or I'otsdam mail box j Instead a simple stage mail box is I 1 (instructed which might belong to the I land Of anywhere. And when the villain is arrested in the lat reel, it isn't the picturesque, helmeted Berlin Ber-lin bluecoat who fastens the handcuffs, hand-cuffs, but u nondescript policeman who I looks suspiciously like a Paris gen-l gen-l darme The big films which are intended I primarily for sals In America and I Europe, are historical stories the I plot and locations or which arc anything any-thing rather than Girinan. Millions I of marks have been spent In producing produc-ing "Madams Duberrj ' 0 story of I the French resolution- "Snmiirun," a tale, Of the Orient, and Anne Bo-I Bo-I leyn." a reproduction of sixteenth cen- 1 11 ry London. |