First English Colour Feature
Mr. Robert T. Kane, chief of the new company, New World Pictures, announced recently that the first colour feature to be made in England will be "The Sport of Kings," based on "The Tale of the Gipsy Horse," by the Irish novelist the late Donn Byrne. It will be.produced at the new Denham studios of Alexander Korda and will cost between £IOO,OOO and £120,000. Teehnicolour experts will arrive from Hollywood in a week or so to begin work on the iSlrn. Lighting equipment for colour production costing £15,000 has been bought. Several big English race meetings are to be filmed for the picture.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22402, 24 April 1936, Page 14 (Supplement)
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