TALKIE FILMS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19732, 24 September 1929, Page 3

TALKIE FILMS.

AMERICAN VISITOR'S OBSERVATIONS. [THE **»■» Special •«*!«• 3 DTJNEDIN, September 23. An American visitor to Dunedm has voiced some interesting observ*. tions concerning all dialogue pictures, their economic effect on the Dominion, .and the criticism which is being levelled at them. , "Of course, the talking in these pictures seems quite ******}* m *' L said, "but at the> same time 1 hare go admit that your British actors have more impressive matter to 'put over. Their speaking voices are rounder and filler, and tho* have more sense ot thedramatio. Y*», I think the British actor is surely coming into his ° He considered, however, that much of the adverse criticism being directed nt the American-made talkies was futile, for after all if there was any toiwne attachable it all came back on the people. As long as New Zealanders thronged the cinema--ebows, the theatre .managers could b fl depended ur?on to supply them with the entertainment they evidently wanted. At present Great Britain could not hope to release sufficient films to supply the demand, and in spite of ahy protest against them, it was certain that the American talkies would j endure. One could not blame America and one could blame neither the Government nor theatre managers. Again stressing the fact that it all name back on. the public, the speaker admitod that a vast sum of * money must go out yearly from the Dominion in payment for the "talking shadows." Tn comparison with flesh and blood theatrical companies which spent money in the country, the cinema appeared to be a poor economic proposition. Still, they offered cheap and good entertainment for the People, and there the matter stood.