| Gubara, partially aided financially by the government, produced in 1982 the first all-Sudanese long feature Tajooje which he claimed to have made in the Stanley Kramer s way of -dir-ecting | Two names were prominent as cinema technicians hired to run the Film Unit: Gadalla Gubara and Kamal M |
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| He then followed up with a docu-mentary masterpiece "The Dislocation of Amber" in 1975 and then "Tigers Are Better Looking" adapted from a short story by Jean Rhys of Dominica and produced by at Beaconsfield Studios, UK |
As an example of those who opted to quit the cinema making scene, AbdulRahman Najdi supervises cinema theaters in one of the Gulf countries.
| Critically acclaimed Hussein Sheriffe made "The Throwing of Fire" in 1973 out of the calendar discussed above | In fact Gubara had some film education in the States and had earned a Delta, Kappa, Alpha certificate of appreciation from the university of South California in 1961 |
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| Subsequently the Unit s production was employed in recording national occasions and in producing music entertainment shorts that were shown in mobile cinema projections to people in villages but they were also enjoyed by city-dwellers | It was a documentary that was much appraised |
This marked the failure of government management of cinema and ushered in private investment.