CABINET MOVIETONES

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2303, 4 September 1929, Page 3

CABINET MOVIETONES

AMERICAN SYSTEM USED BARRED FROM MANY THEATRES fMr' Ramsay MacDonald's widelyadvertised Cabinet talking Him, in which h e personally introduces his colleagues to the microphone and the public, is understood to have been inspired by a benevolent desiie to giv e ■ u helping hand to the production of British talking films, as well as by th c less ingenuous motive of giving a good send-off to the new Government The film has already struck a first-class political “snug’ in the fact that, being produced in the American Western Electric Movietone system, it is not allowed to be shown in theatres equipped with the British Talking Pictures system, with which the American system is interchangeable Ther e are about 40 theatres equipped with the American system and about SO with th e British-system, so that the film designed to promote interest in British talking films may be shown in not more than One-third of the totul number of theatres now available. All. applications from owners of the British apparatus to show films produced in the American system hav 0 hitherto been refused. There is a general desire among talkie theatre owners to show Mr MacDonald’s film.