BRITISH FILMS.
Ambitious Plans For Current
Year.
£3,500,000 TO BE SPENT.
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 1 p.m.)
LONDON, October 18,
Mr. Walter Marks, Federal M.P., conferred at length with Sir Phillip Cun-liffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, who was gratified at Australia's excellent quota plan to help British films. Mr. Marks ascertained that the British studios in the current year were preparing 100 films on which £3,500,000 was being spent, but the British "talking films" machine was not yet perfected, though the inventors were busily experimenting with it. It is recognised that the use of the American machine means that only American films will be shown.
Mr. Marks leaves on October 22 to inspect Parisian and Berlin studios, and proceeds then to the United States, where he spends a fortnight at Hollywood.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1928, Page 7
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