India Report

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First page of the ‘Introductory’ of a report Dickinson wrote about his trip to India.

From January 1946, Dickinson spent over three months in India in order to examine the conditions for filming there and for subject material for a film.  The report addresses issues such as the international film market, social and political unrest and rising anti-British feeling, Dickinson’s idea to make an English studio production, visual elements that would be good for filming, such as strong colours, clothes, nature and architecture, and how these could be used in films for a Western audience.