MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20987, 16 October 1933, Page 5

MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY

ENGLAND GAINING GROUND NEW COLOURED FILM PERFECTED (I'KESS ASSOCIATION TELUCiKAU.) WELLINGTON, October 15. The opinion that England will be the Mecca of all interested in the motion picture business was expressed by Mr Gordon Ellis, general manager for Australia and New Zealand for British Empire Films, Ltd., who is making a brief business trip to the Dominion after a tour abroad. Mr Ellis told an interviewer that the reason for England's popularity was the financial stress in America. In Plollywood many studios were working half-time, and with half the stages occupied. English companies, fortified by many famous stars and direc-' tors from Hollywood, had grasped the opportunity to secure representation on the American market. According to Mr Ellis, the picture business in the near future will be revolutionised >by a type of coloured I film which, has been perfected in Eng-! land, whereby an image in natural colours is thrown on the screen by means 'of mechanical apparatus on the projector. Mr Ellis said that considerable impetus had been given to Australian productions by the Government offering a prize of £2OOO for the best picture to be produced during the coming year, and four studios were now working continuously. Mr .Ellis spoke in the highest terms of New Zealand scenics, and said he could see no reason why feature productions could not be made in the Dominion. It was his opinion that in the future all countries would be living on their own productions, as was the case now in France and Germany.