Film Work Abroad
117H1LE Hitler's army was ff marching into the Sudetenland, two young men were but a few miles away, filming Central Europe in colour.
During the Munich crisis, when war seemed imminent, they were busy filmin? 011 the outskirts of Czechoslovakia. Even Nazi troops \yerc forced to help them out of difficulties, when one of their location trucks was stuck in a tliteh bordering a German military highway. These two Englishmen, both under 30, are Raymond K. Kill, producer, and Anthony Gilkison, director, and the company they have formed has the object of filming the world in colour. Convinced that they could show Hollywood a thing or two about moviemaking they lo*t no time in embarking on their first journey, and only last year, in St. Moritz. they overcame a problem that had baffled the entire film world, and made screen history by producing the first colour shot« in slow motion' that the world had ever seen.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 201, 26 August 1939, Page 7
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159Film Work Abroad Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 201, 26 August 1939, Page 7
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