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    ... historical narration against the disruption of modernity, in Song of Ceylon Wright deliberately encourages us to reflect on ... =article

    Basil Wright, ‘Filming in Ceylon’, Cinema Quarterly, Volume 2, No 4, Summer ...

     
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    ... preoccupation with the Buddhist religion of the island.

    Song of Ceylon posits international trade and communications ... ), 465-481.

    Wright, Basil, ‘Filming in Ceylon’, Cinema Quarterly, 2/4 (Summer 1934), ...

     
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    ... then moves on to the modernity of the tea industry. In Song of Ceylon Buddhism is featured circularly, appearing most ... London: BFI, 2008).

    Wright, Basil, ‘Filming in Ceylon’, Cinema Quarterly, 2/4 (Summer 1934), 231 ...

     
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    ... , 137). 

    As a documentary produced on the tea plantations of Ceylon, Eastern Rose invites comparisons with the ... example from the British documentary movement, Basil Wright’s Song of Ceylon (1934). While Song ...

     
  • NO.1 EAST AFRICAN ENTERTAINMENT UNIT (6/1945)
    ... would manage, and arrange the songs for, the enormously popular post- ... some ‘lively East African songs’, it also performed traditional military ... Propaganda directed at East African Soldiers in Ceylon (1943-44)’ accessed on 20 November 2008 ...
     
  • VOICES OF MALAYA
    ... beautiful’ – and offered comparisons with Basil Wright’s Song of Ceylon (Film Review – South Africa, 1948, 7, Film News, October 1948, 10). They did however ...
     
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    ... Hospital. Native life and scenes in India, Burma and Ceylon.

    Rl. 1. Travelling along a country road (44). Blank film (45). Water ... the Army (647). Burmese children bathing in a river (694). An action song by Ceylon children (740). Blank film (741). A ...

     
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    ... 1933, 41). The Empire Marketing Board was disbanded in 1933, but a number of the films, including Wright’s Song of Ceylon (1934), were completed at the newly-formed GPO Film Unit, which was staffed mainly by ...
     
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    ... to popularise Empire food products’ and recognised the film, as Paul Rotha also did, as a ‘forerunner of The Song of Ceylon’, which Wright filmed later in 1933 and released during 1934 ( ...
     
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    ... tied together. They return to work accompanied by Indian folk songs. At night Mangri prepares an evening meal and is examined ... presumably erroneously – that Keene shot the film in Ceylon (Barsam, 1992, 244).

    Lee’s commentary locates ...

     
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    ... and Rickie Richards, cuddling a lamb on Hoy.

    00:04:28 Scenes filmed in Ceylon, circa March 1940: a young Buddhist priest in ... , a seven sisters plant, and a bulbul, a species of song bird. A chameleon.

    00:14:10 Two snake charmers with their ...

     
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    ... with Indian locals. Street scenes with Japanese flag flying. "The Victory Song is loud in the Indian Ocean, 5 April." Map of sub-continent and Ceylon. Two aircraft carriers at sea, with Hiryu with distinctive port island ...