INDIGNANT REPLIES.
BRITISH "TALKIE" FILMS
AUSTRALIAN CENSORS' REPORT
(Uvated Press Association— Copyright.) LONDON, April 10. British film producers are indignant at the cabled extract from the report of the Australian Censorship Board. "They could not have seen more than three or four British talkie films said Mr Herbert Wilcox, of the British Dominions' Film Corporation. " Therefore 1 should like to know on what they based their statement that the best talkie films of English life are made in America, and that the British films require more cutting than the American." . Mr Wilcox contended that the 15ntish display a greater sense of fitness and decency than any other country. The nroduction and technical side of the British industry have made enormous strides. * The "Morning Post" comments: "The censors, however expert in judging films, know very little of English life, or they would not mistake travesty for a faithful picture, all of which goes to nrove what a powerful hold 7\mericnri films have established in Australia, and what a long way British producers have to go in order to shake off that hold."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 159, 17 April 1930, Page 5
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