Question Of Payment For Film Rights At Empire Games
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 16. The movie film rights for the Empire Games belong to the Empire Games Company and not to the Government, said the Prime Minister. Mr. S. G. Holland, commenting on the cabled complaints from Britain alleging discrimination against film companies. Mr. Holland said that the New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr. W. J. Jordan, had conveyed the representations of the film companies for shorts of the games and he had passed them on to Auckland.
“I have since been informed,” he said, ‘‘that the Empire Games Company has always understood that the newsreel people wanted to have filming rights without payment and the Mayor of Auckland has assured me that if they are now prepared to make a proposal to make payment for those rights any such proposal would be considered by the Empire Games Company.” Mr. Holland added that he had communicated that information to Mr. Jordan.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23154, 17 January 1950, Page 6
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