Djaoeh Dimata (Out of Sight) is a 1948 film from what is now Indonesia,
written and directed by Andjar Asmara for the South Pacific Film
Corporation (SPFC). Starring Ratna Asmara (pictured) and Ali Joego, it
follows a woman who goes to Jakarta to find work after her husband is
blinded in an accident. She becomes a singer and achieves wide acclaim,
but eventually returns home. SPFC's first production, Djaoeh Dimata took
two to three months to film and cost almost 130,000 gulden. The first
domestically produced feature film to be released in five years, Djaoeh
Dimata received favourable reviews, although financially it was
outperformed by Roestam Sutan Palindih's Air Mata Mengalir di Tjitarum
(released soon after). The film's cast remained active in the Indonesian
film industry, some for another thirty years, and SPFC produced six more
works before closing in 1949. A copy of the film is stored at Sinematek
Indonesia.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djaoeh_Dimata>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1958:
United Airlines Flight 736 collided with a U.S. Air Force
fighter jet over southern Nevada, resulting in the deaths of all 49
people on board both aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_736>
1970:
In response to a dispute over wheat production quotas, Leonard
Casley declared his 75 km2 (29 sq mi) farm in Western Australia to be
an independent country as the Hutt River Province.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Hutt_River>
2010:
Ukraine and Russia signed the Kharkiv Pact, extending the
Russian lease on naval facilities in Crimea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkiv_Pact>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hector:
1. (transitive) To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully,
to domineer.
2. (intransitive) To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to
swagger; to bully.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hector>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Beneath our feet and o'er our head Is equal warning given:
Beneath us lie the countless dead, Above us is the heaven! Death rides
on every passing breeze, And lurks in every flower; Each season has
its own disease, Its peril every hour.
--Reginald Heber
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