CINEMA IN FRANCE.
CONCESSION TO AMERICA. NEW SYSTEM OF LICENCES. (Received May 6. 5.5 p.m.) Times Cable. LONDON, May 5. The Paris correspondent of the Times says the American film producer, Mr. Will Hays, discussed the situation which has arisen through the new restrictions on foreign films with the Cinema Committee. Subsequently the Minister of Public Instruction, M. Harriot, stated that no changes would be made in the decree stipulating the proportion of French films which must be exhibited. But the methods of application would be changed by introducing a system of licences to be issued by the French importers, instead of the quota system. It is unofficially stated that the licences will be issued in the proportion of seven American films to one French film instead of four to one. An American who buys a French film need not exhibit it. Ho may also buy licences from a French exhibitor who has bought an American film. The Cinema Committee is of tho opinion that it has thus prevented the threatened withdrawal of American productions and at the same time protected French industry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19939, 7 May 1928, Page 10
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