“Whither Mankind?”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 18

“Whither Mankind?”

scenes for 11. G. Wells’s

great film. “Whither Mankind?” were received by a London Films unit which recently returned after a week's work in the Welsh mountains. The wild and desolate country about Blaimi, with its long-disused colliery, made a perfect location for the scenes of the film depicting the desolation after the next war. Here large bodies of men and horses could be manoeuvred, aud explosives freely used without danger or damage. Three hundred unemployed miners play the part of men roving the country in wild bands where war and pestilence bad swept civilisation away. A hundred horses of every type aud size were borrowed from the local farms to mount one of the maurauding bands. Blaina’s schoolchildren were given a day’s holiday and a charabanc ride to a safe position overlooking the old mine workings and the battle which was staged to be fought there. United Artists will release “Whither Mankind?”