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The Truth Will Out (1930)

4,124 views · Published 10 August 2017 · 3:09 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: BFI · 2017 · Film & Animation

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Part of India on Film: 1899 – 1947
This collection of newly digitised films is part of the BFI's contribution to the UK-India Year of Culture 2017, in partnership with the British Council.  View more films on BFI Player http://player.bfi.org.uk/collections/india-on-film-1899-1947/  (UK only)


Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India.

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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