Technicolour Film Of Olympics
r Britain is to make a ten-reel technicolour film of the Olympic Games in London It will be released to the world within 10 days of the completion of the event. A company associated with the J. Arthur Rank organisation has acquired the right to film the Games, and its cameramen and technicians will encamp at Wembley, where they will have their own dark rooms, machine shops, battery-charging and sound recording devices. The new equipment will mean orders worth £30,000 to British manufacturers.
The film will be exhibited all over the world and special care is to be taken to record incidents of interest to individual competing countries. Use of colour will enable film-goers to identify their compatriots, as ah athletes .will .wear their country’s colours.
This will be a marked advance on previous Olympic films. Producer will be Castleton Knight, who was responsible for the technicolour Royal Wedding film, and that of the Victory Parade.
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Northern Advocate, 13 March 1948, Page 4
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