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BRITISH FILMS

CONTRACTS THROUGHOUT MEW ZEALAND [Spkcial to the ’ Stab.’] WELLINGTON, November 9. ' Towards the end of next month, there will be released in the dominion, the first pictures made by British studios in the course ot their big efFoi t to capture the American movie trade in the United Kingdom. ■ These films, made by nine of the eighteen new companies, with a -total capital of £2(),00v),000, which have gone into the business of picture production since the passage of the Quota Hill, will be seen first in Wellington and Auckland, and then will begin a circuit. After six weeks’ operations, the British Dominions Film Service announces that it has completed almost 100 contracts, 40 per" cent, being for the whole fifty-two British pictures which are to arrive in Now Zealand during'the next twelve months. The fillip given motion picture production in Great Britain is apparent by the fact that two years ago the total of British pictures produced was forty. During the past year/it was 148. , ■ The contracts completed to date in elude every part of New Zealand save four small townships.

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Evening Star, Issue 20019, 9 November 1928, Page 2

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BRITISH FILMS Evening Star, Issue 20019, 9 November 1928, Page 2

BRITISH FILMS Evening Star, Issue 20019, 9 November 1928, Page 2

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