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...that Paul Rotha noted...
From this point on, it is fairly clear that Saadia is not about sex, but then, it is not about much of anything else, either. There is a witch (Wanda Rotha) who changes into an owl and a Holy Man (Cyril Cusack) who declares that Saadia "has a soul capable of the most extraordinary action." In fact, she turns out to be a sort of North African Calamity Jane, who rides off into the badlands, carves up a bandit chief, steals back some serum he has stolen, and so saves the country from a bubonic plague...
...World of Plenty is a lecture about food and international hunger, past, present and future. Written by the late Eric Knight, edited by Paul Rotha and clarified by the animated charts of the Isotype Institute,* this documentary is amusing, honest, exciting, intelligent, understandable, always for two reasons: 1) common sense about moving pictures; 2) common sense about human beings. Reason No.1 makes every shot count while the commentator talks. Reason No. 2 saves the film from two of the banes of pedagogy: technological jargon and talking down...
Under the auspices of the Harvard Film Society, Paul Rotha, English producer, will speak tonight on the documentary film in the New Lecture Hall. The talk will be accompanied by several of his own sound shorts...
...Rotha is one of the founders of the documentary film, a movie based on the dramatization of facts similar to the "March of Time." The three films which are to be shown are, "Today We Live," "We Live in Two Worlds," and one concerning the handling of the night mail between England and Scotland...