FILM SECRETS
DISCLOSURES IN HOUSE OF COMMONS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. April 10. That “ things are not always what they screen ” was demonstrated in the second reading of the debate in the House of Commons on a Bill prohibiting films involving cruelty to animals, Mr J. Denville cited a film depicting a tiger launching itself at a virtuous maiden who had left the district a fortnight before the tiger actually sprang. Other speakers mentioned mechanical elephants which deceived even a circus proprietor. Tlie horses in ‘ The Charge of the Light Brigade ’ were not brought down by tripwires. India-rubber horses were sometimes used.
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Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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103FILM SECRETS Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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