BRITISH FILM TRADE.
ENCOURAGEMENT NEEDED. VICTORIA’S GOOD EXAMPLE. LONDON, Sept. 30. Victoria’s decision to compel the inclusion of 1000 ft. of British film in every cinema iirogramme gives a lead to the remainder of the Empire,” says the London Evening News. “A thousand feet will not he. of much help, to the British film drama. It will be most helpful in the portraying ox Eng_ fish scenes and customs.”
“Why don’t we do the same here?” asks, the Dai'iy Mail. “The industry is languishing, not because Britain cannot produce good films, but because she is inundated with foreign films. “Many of these films, purporting to represent English life, are full of vulgar anachronisms and preposterous inaccuracies. Others savour of American propaganda.” '
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 October 1925, Page 9
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121BRITISH FILM TRADE. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 October 1925, Page 9
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