The Underground Motion Picture Industry in China

Abstract

Motion picture production carries on in China under the most hazardous conditions of war. The industry has literally had to go underground. As protection against the Japanese bombings the laboratories and editing and storage compartments are built in tunnels as deep as thirty feet below the surface. At the alarm the equipment and portions of the sets and props are carried into the dugouts. Actors and directors go on with their rehearsing, while editors and cutters continue with their work to the hum of the approaching raiders. Thus production today in valiant China.