AUSTRALIAN FILM DEVELOPMENT
AMERICAN UNIT TO PRODUCE Australia’s potentialities as a filmproducing country are to be recognh 1 by an American production unit alr'oct immediately. Advice to this effect has been received by Mr Stewart Pitt, manager of the Umpire Theatre at Dunedin, who has been informed that Columbia is to lead the way, being the first American company to make an Australian picture. It is to be produced in conjunction with National Studios at .Pagowood, Sydney. A special Australian st ry is being written by Zane Grey, featuring Victor Jory, who is leaving San Francisco by the Niagara, on . one 17. The film will bo directed- by Clarence
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Evening Star, Issue 22351, 29 May 1936, Page 5
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109AUSTRALIAN FILM DEVELOPMENT Evening Star, Issue 22351, 29 May 1936, Page 5
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