Future of Australian Films

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 301, 15 September 1933, Page 16

Future of Australian Films

“ANYONE who is pessimistic of the future of Australian films merely lacks the ability to see ahead,” said Mr. Ken G. Hall, general manager and film director of Cinesound Productions, Ltd., in an interview in Sydney recently. “At our present rate of progress Australian motion pictures will tell the world of our great land within five years. Our feet are set on the entrances to the theatres of the world, and. with one or two films wortliy of

Mary Pickford Ims inherited a fortune of £228,800 from her mother, tile late Mrs. Charlotte Smith, who was professionally known as Cliarlolte Pickford.

world-wide distribution, we shall soon be in those theatres telling the story of Australia,” Mr, Hall continued. “What has been achieved to date has not been done without the striving on the part of many people. We have Australian sound equipment perfected by our own sound engineers; we have studios better equipped than any previously in our history, and we have men willing to back their belief in Australian films.

“The making of successful motion pictures means work and money for many Australians, and provided we put brains into our productions, it means more work and money coming back to us,” concluded Mr. Hall.