GAME FISHING AND ROMANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 155, 28 December 1935, Page 10

GAME FISHING AND ROMANCE

If Mr. Zane Grey finds good game fishing along the Great Barrier Reef, off the Australian coast, moving pictures will be taken of the sport. One film will be a record of the fishing, but the other will be a romance with scenes partly on the fishing grounds and partly ashore. British actors and actresses and Hollywood technicians and cameramen will make the film for a British company. This illustrates the modern trend in the development of moving pictures as an art. The producer chooses his background, and then takes his players to the scene. In the background he has accuracy and in the foreground romance. The possibilities are great, as has been demonstrated recently in some successful pictures made partly on the ground in. which the action of the play is set. There is atmosphere of a kind which cannot be secured by all the ingenuity of the producer tied to a studio or even by cutting in the scenes from a travel film. There is also publicity. Travel pictures have a wide appeal, but their popularity cannot approach that of the romantic film. Then why not combine the two? Mr. Zane Grey proposes a union of three features: the Australian background, big-game fishing, and romance. New Zealand publicity overseas, according to a recent Ministerial statement, is to be strengthened; and New Zealand may therefore take note of Mr. Zane Grey's proposal, always remembering, however, that the scenario, the acting, and the production must be worthy of the background.