'''Information Films of India'''


Est: 1943 as a successor to the [[Film Advisory
Board]]. Launched as producer of war
propaganda documentaries, shorts and the
Indian News Parade (ancestor to [[Films
Division]]’s current Indian News Review).
Started by the British-Indian government, it
required all exhibitors to include up to 2000 ft
of ‘Government-approved film’ in each
screening. This law was incorporated as an
amendment to the Defence of India Act (Rule
44A). In the four years when the IFI was in
force (i.e. before it yielded to the [[Films
Division]]), its chief producer was [[Ezra Mir]]
and the producer of the Indian News Parade
was William J. Moylan. It produced c.170 shorts
in addition to the newsreels before it closed in
1946.

[[Studio]]