BRITISH FILMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 October 1933, Page 4

BRITISH FILMS

A BRIGHT OUTLOOK

"• [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, October 15.

An opinion that England will be the Mecca of all interested in the motion picture business was expressed by Mr Gordon Ellis, general manager for Australia and New Zealand for British Films Ltd., who is making a brief business trip to the Dominion, following a tour abroad. Mr Ellis told an interviewer that the reason for England’s popularity was financial stress in America. In Hollywood many studios were working half time, and with half the stages occupied, English companies, fortified by many famous stars and directors from Hollywood, had grasped the opportunity to secure representation on the American market. According to Mr Ellis, the picture business in the near future will he 'revolutionised by a type of coloured films which had been perfected in England whereby an image in natural colours would be thrown on the screen by means of mechanical apparatus on a projector. Mr Ellis said a considerable impetus had been given Australian productions by the Government there offering a prize of £2OOO for the best picture to be produced during the coming year, and four studios were now working continuously. Mr Ellis spoke in the highest terms of New Zealand scenics, and said he could see no reason why, feature productions could not be made in the Dominion. It was his opinion that in future all countries would be living on their own- productions, as was the case now in France and Germany.