FILMS BY CLIPPER

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 9, 12 January 1938, Page 10

FILMS BY CLIPPER

ARRIVING AT AUCKLAND

The first films to be flown across the Pacific from the United States to New Zealand are to arrive by the PanAmerican Airways Samoa Clipper, which is now expected at Auckland tomorrow afternoon.

! The longer of these films, three reels of 800 feet each, is a newsreel of the bombing of the United States gunboat Panay by Japanese aeroplanes in the Yangtze on Sunday, December 12. This was the film which, taken by Mr. Norman Alley, was privately screened in the United States, and which revealed the Japanese attacking the survivors as they attempted to reach the shore. It was flown to the United States, and two prints of it have been rushed out to this country, one for screening in New Zealand, the other for dispatch to Australia. The contracts for release of the film throughout the Dominion have already been concluded.

Mr. W. A. Hislop, general manager in New Zealand of the Universal Films, Ltd., flew up to Auckland to meet the Samoa Clipper, and take delivery of the film, which will be sent down to Wellington by the Limited tomorrow night.

The second film is one specially made in Los Angeles by Twentieth Century Fox for the flight, and bears greetings from Mr. P. M. Firth, New Zealand Trade Commissioner in Los Angeles, to this country. It will also reach Wellington on Friday.