AMERICAN FILMS
INFLUENCING COLONIALS
DELIBERATE ATTEMPT
ALLEGED
(By Telegraph.) (Spatial to "The Evenlni f» ol t.») OHMSTCHUItOH, This Day. At the meeting; of the Canterbury Brand, of the Navy League, tho presi- £' ■', , i-/- J> Dougull, said that an enort had been made to obtain a fllm of the Boyul toin' made in Now Zealimd for screening in Ohristchurch on a «pocud occasion. Tho loaguo was not sue eessful becnuso of American irtterosts The Government could not bo blamed in rospect to the picture Industry. Tlio British fllm peoplo were taking steps to counteract what ho regarded aa a doliberato attempt to Americanise coloninl opinion. All tho American pictures worked with tho object of emphasising the culturo of America and tho super), ority of tho Americans over nil other people. Ho remembered having seen "Peter Pan" produced nsi an American citizen. If they went to that loiiftth, how much further would they go? x
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 105, 6 May 1927, Page 6
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153AMERICAN FILMS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 105, 6 May 1927, Page 6
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