AN IMPOSING SCHEME

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 64, 17 March 1927, Page 9

AN IMPOSING SCHEME

STUDIOS ON BIG SCALE

AUTHORS CO-OPERATE

(British Official Wireless.)

EUGBY, 16th March.

Following upon publication of the projected Government measure for assisting the British cinematograph industry comes the announcement of a * 1,000,000 Empire-wide, organisation set up to produce British films on a big scale. Leading authors, producers, actors, and artists are associated with the project and a five-years option on the nlm rights of stories by fourteen of the best known English novelists has been secured by the new organisation, winch is entitled "British Incorporated Pictures, Limited." Affiliated with it win be producing companies which will operate in Canada, Australia, South Africa, and India. The ultimate aim is to establish a "British Hollywood" m England, in which extensive studios are to be built giving employment to large numbers of people. Contracts have already been drawn up for the world rights of the first three productions. The actual production, like the authors and artists, will be purely British. English producers will be lent by an American organisation on a reciprocal basis and be brought back to their own country to work. British authors associated with the scheme include Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Conan IJoyle; among the producers is Gordon Craig; the actors inclule Gerald dv Maurier and Sybil Thorndike, and the artists Frank Brangwyn and Edmond Dulac.