CORONEL-FALKLANDS FILM.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 29, 21 January 1929, Page 5

CORONEL-FALKLANDS FILM.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —With regard to the CoronelFslklands film, 1 should have added that there was good acting to present dramatic, heroic, and tragic situations that were strictly historical, hut I can never forgive the funny little sort of watchmaker's lathe steam engine that was switched on as the “Invincible’s” main engines, though they were turbine. It was more like a main engine of the “Kent.” but too absurdly trivial for that Then, was the making fun of the Falklands Islands volunteers good for those native races of which we hear as picture patrons? The centre court at Wimbledon has a motto from Kipling who might also be quoted to British film producers: “Take up the white man’s burden, “Have cone with childish days, “The lightly proffered laurel. “The easy ungrtidged praise.” Why didn’t they show the wreckage in the ward room of the “Invincible?” —I am, etc., R.H.F. Havelock North. 19/1/29.