FILM GEOGRAPHY.
CRITICS IN SWITZERLAND.
STUDENTS STOP PERFORMANCE. Tho Swiss do not seem to appreciate being filmed. A few years ago a big film on "William Tell" elicited unanimous disapproval and last spring the "Conquest of the Matterhorn" waa violently .criticised.
Now it is "The King of tho Bernina" that brings indignant' protests from all parts of the country. The film is based on a novel by the Swiss author, J. C. Heer, who died a few years ago, and was produced by a Hollywood studio. The right to film the story was given againsj the will of two of the author's daughters, who arc now taking legal steps. The film was made in Aiaska, and bears no resemblance to local scenery or Swiss characteristics, the. makers having evidently reckoned on the ignorance of tho audience.
When the film was produced at Zurich in November a crowd of students demonstrated in front of the building, and finally invaded it and stopped the performance. They afterwards marched through the city singing patriotic songs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20472, 25 January 1930, Page 18
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