SHODDY FILMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 November 1927, Page 5

SHODDY FILMS

WOMAN’S CAUSTIC CRITICISM.

'Australian and N.Z Gable Association-.'

SYDNEY, November 28.

Giving evidence before the Film Commission, Miss Beatrice Tildesley, a member of the Good Films League, and the National Council of Women, said that what impressed her in comparing the regular theatre and the films, where the two dealt with the same subject, was the almost invariably marked inferiority of the films. This was due to the standards and methods ’of production at Hollywood, where the controlling interests were in the hands of men who looked upon them purely as commodities for sale, men without artistic ideals and natural taste, and many of them without an ordinary decent education. She added: “Some of these nabobs of the screen have gone into the movie industry with exactly the same enthusiasm, and the same aim of high profits, as actuated them when they dwelt in cheap clothing. They are in fact wholesale clothiers, who have extended their energies from purveying “reach mo down” suits to providing ‘drag me down' entertainment.”

ASSAULT AT PICTURES.

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, November 28. -

Norman Andrew, married, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for assaulting a twelve-year-old girl in a picture theatre.