BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 18 October 1933, Page 7

BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY

FUTURE PROSPECTS BRIGHT.

TAKING AMERICAN BUSINESS.

fbv Telegraph—Vre-ss Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 16. The 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 Empire Films Ltd., who is making a brief business trip to the Dominion following a tour abroad. Mr. Ellis told an interviewer that tbe reason for England’s popularity wa*s financial stress in America’. Hollywood many -studios were working half time and with half the stag© 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 be revolutionised by a type of coloured film which has been perfected m England whereby 4111 image in natural colours is thrown on the screen bv means of a- mbelianical apparatus on the projector. Mr. Ellis said that considerable impetus had been given Australian productions by the Government 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 scenies. and said that lie could see no reason why feature production* <->nuld not lie made in the Dominion. Tt was his opinion that_ m the future all countries would be living on their own productions, as was the case now in France and Germany.