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Show f 'I 1 . Jon- iiii4 looking at IHOLLYWOODI SINCE most people believe that the postwar world will be a wondrous won-drous affair with new discoveries in science and transport revolutionizing revolutioniz-ing our everyday living, it occurred oc-curred to me some changes will be due in the motion picture industry, I don't remember who said, "1 don't care who makes our laws, so long as I can make our pictures," but I hied me ' over to Darryl F. i . Zanuck, a pro-ducer pro-ducer on whom the genius tag is ' pretty firmly tied VfS"" 1 since he made , jF "Wilson," and asked him what "-l - sort of film fare VC ,k we are going. to give our returned soldiers. I wanted Darryl F. to know what we Zanuck could expect of the film of the future. There was Zanuck pacing up and down his lush office like a caged tiger, swinging a polo mallet to give greater emphasis and he was ready to give. Here is what I got The over-all picture of the postwar post-war cinema Industry is a radical one. It has little in common with the rndustry we know today. Said Zanuck, "The postwar film will be international in scope. Picture-making in our peacetime era will be a far different thing than it is today. The broadening scope of world vision vis-ion that comes with peace will bring about the ascension of a great foreign for-eign star. I would not be surprised to see a great Chinese actress become be-come a dominant figure. "I look to see our company, Twentieth Twen-tieth Century-Fox, open a large studio stu-dio in a foreign land quite possibly pos-sibly India where pictures will be aimed at world consumption although al-though made basically for the East. "I would have no hesitancy in making a motion picture with a love story between a typical Ameri can boy and a Chinese girl. The same is true of a picture with a high-type Indian and an American girL Films for Freedom "The reeducation of Germany will center largely around its film industry. in-dustry. Films' were the instrument most freely used to propagandize the German people Into Naziism. Films should therefore be the most powerful instrument used in their reeducation. "I would personally like to have the job of running the postwar German Ger-man studios. I do not think this should, be done by a government agency. It should be done by motion picture men. After all, we made our product so popular abroad that dictators dic-tators banned our pictures in their countries." Well, with that for a starter (and I maintain that's a good hunk for anyone to chew on), let's cut back to the psychology of today's 'soldier as outlined by Zanuck. He said, "War makes men think. There are no drunken sprees from our returned re-turned soldiers today. These boys, transformed into men, have fought in 59 localities over every end and corner of the world. They're worldwide world-wide in vision. Geography isn't something they learned out of a book. They didn't have to find the far-flung places of the world on a map they've been there. The motion mo-tion picture industry will have to keep abreast of their way of thinking think-ing if we want to continue in business." The Three Rs, Too Servicemen, says Zanuck, have reflected re-flected a willingness to accept enlightenment en-lightenment along with their entertainment; enter-tainment; and while the poll is high in favor of the pin-up type picture, many significant films rank with musicals: in attendance. Backgrounds Back-grounds outside the United States will be characteristic of many of our new films and the foreign star will come back into favor. "Our international casting average aver-age will mount higher and higher when the avenues of foreign talent, shut out by wars, are opened again. There should be no national boundaries bound-aries in art. There aren't any in music, painting or sculpture. The talent of the world should and must be brought to our audiences. "This will not come as any Jolt to the people at home. We're building build-ing up a new audience here, too. They know new names places they'd possibly never have heard of if their sons hadn't been fighting there. Many of them are buried there. They'll want to know more about St Malo and Cassino and Chungking and Mitkylna those places are familiar household words now." The Truth Brought Back Jinx Falkenburg, all dolled up In a sarong on the "Song of Tahiti" set, walked over to chat with a bunch of visiting marines, just back from the South Pacific. Said Jinx, "Tell me do you think I make an authentic authen-tic South Sea Island girl?" After a brief hesitation, one of the marines spoke up and said, "Well hardly, Miss Falkenburg. The trouble is, you're about 80 pounds underweight, you smell too nice, and you have far too many teeth!" |