The Indian Cinematograph Committee (ICC) undertook a series of interviews in

1927 regarding the role of films, the majority of which were American, in the

subcontinent.

Among the questions it asked were the following:

Have any of the films exhibited in India a tendency to misrepresent Western

civilization or to lower it in the eyes of Indians? Is it a fact that films

representing Western life are generally unintelligible to an uneducated Indian

or are largely misunderstood by him? If so, do undesirable results follow

from this?