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MUSIC IN FILMS

AUSTRALIAN'S STUDY VISIT TO HOLLYWOOD INDUSTRY IN COMMONWEALTH Tho first Australian to make a comprehensive study of nil important side of talking-picture making, tho writing of music: for Jiluis, Mr. H. L. Evans, professor—of pianoforte at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of M usic, is a through passenger to America by the Aorangi, which arrived from Sydney yesterday. Mr. Evans, who is accompanied by his wife, is going to Hollywood to study the latest practice there, with a view to improving the Australian standard.

"Film making is still in its early staj.es in Australia, but thero is every likelihood of rapid development, and a start has already been made," said Mr. Evans. This was chiefly due to the Quota Act, which compelled Australian exhibitors to show a small percentage of local lilms. lie was confident that the industry would develop into a very important one, giving employment to manv.

There was no reason why, given time, the Australian product should not oompete favourably with that from overseas. For tho time being it would be necessary to import leading actors, as had already been done, but Australia should eventually bo able to draw entirely on its ow 11 resources. To bo successful, Australian films must be able to find a place 011 the world's markets, as this part of the world could not support the industry unaided. Film people overseas were recognising more and more tho importance of music, and were engaging the best brains in the musical world to write the scores, Mr. Evans said. Mr. Evans considers radio has retarded the interest in the public performance of music in Australia. There was compensation, in that it had brought into tho homes of many people music they would not normally hear, he said. The public performer was rather badly handicapped in Australia nowadays, however, and radio engagements did not replace what had been lost. Mr. Evans was for some years accompanist and solo pianist for tho late Dame Nellie Melba.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22596, 8 December 1936, Page 14

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MUSIC IN FILMS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22596, 8 December 1936, Page 14

MUSIC IN FILMS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22596, 8 December 1936, Page 14

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