BRITISH FILMS.
It is not unnatural in a British community that there should be some who films to those of foreign make— certainly'.it« not unwise.' We who prefer our. own full well that British films are not the Df office attraction the others are, but the expressions of appreciation that have • at tunes appeared in your columnk are expressions horn on hope. We know and admit tlie._ headway American films made when other nations w&e fighting for the world's civilisation, hut ■ equally know —and hope —that in time Br;tiW sentiment, British speech and British wor lew be expressed through British films in . jw, British country. It is well that this should- e so—it is not unnatural that most of us SjJOW u wish it so; and I am one of those avlio kjiow. that this will be so in the not long distan future. It will be because it is vital to us that it should, and we know our history. * air Play" (preserve the name from ill use) raay wish and think otherwise, but not s0 T j n eff Zealand. J. H. BEALE.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 133, 7 June 1930, Page 8
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