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The Truth Will Out
Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India
Overview
This rare surviving piece of anti-Congress propaganda, sadly incomplete, is a dramatised account of an Indian villager who supports a Congress riot (the party was at the forefront of the fight for independence), and who is subsequently arrested, tried, sentenced and reprieved. His friend has no time for the party, stating: “Congress makes mischief. I will not come". The film was made by R.H.G. Johnston, a District Officer in the United Provinces, and features intertitles in Hindi, Urdu and English. Unfortunately the majority of the footage appears to have been lost, and this film ends early in the narrative.
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