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40th Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Historic Speech Observed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 8 (KCNA) -- Forty years have passed since President Kim Il Sung gave an on-site guidance to the Korean Film Studio on December 8, Juche 53 (1964) and then convened an enlarged meeting of the Political Committee of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea there and made a historic speech "Let Us Produce Many Revolutionary Films Contributing to Revolutionary Education and Class Education." That day, the President went round the film-making processes including the indoor shooting sites, the cutting-room, the make-up room, the super-imposition workshop and the recording workshop to acquaint himself in detail with and guide film creation and the work of the studio.
    At the enlarged meeting of the Political Committee, he gave instructions to produce many films which would help toward firmly arming the Party members, working people and younger generation with the revolutionary idea of the Party, bringing them to revolutionary and class awareness and rousing them to socialist construction.
    And he comprehensively expounded questions of principle arising in film production and creative practice such as properly combining idea and artistry in producing revolutionary films and revolutionizing the moviemen.
    A meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture Tuesday to mark the occasion.
    Kim Mu Jon, president of the studio, in his report called upon the creative staff of the moviedom to produce many more works making sizable contributions to accomplishing the Party's cause of Songun revolution in compliance with the requirements of the developing realities, true to the behests of the President and leader Kim Jong Il's policy of bringing about a great upswing in literature and arts.
    Present at the meeting were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Jong Ha Chol, secretary of the C.C., the WPK, and Choe Ik Gyu, minister of Culture.