Delay in British Bill Affects Studios
With the British film industry plunged into tho worst slump it has known since 1926—when onlv one film was made—tho rank and file, including small-part players, "extras," carpenters, technicians, and cameramen, nre suffering acute unemployment and distress, writes a special correspondent of tho Loudon Daily Telegraph. Only four of Britain's main studios are working at present. Thirteen stand empty. Distress in tho industry is due in some measure to stoppage of production caused by tho uncertainty over tho Cinematograph Films Bill. This Bill, which provides for protection of the British industry and embodies proposals for stimulating production, has been tho subject of long wrangling between various factions in and out of Parliament since tho White Paper was issued in July. Till the final provisions of tho present Bill are decided on and made law, firms are unwilling to invest money in pictures which may or may not come within new quota measures.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22985, 12 March 1938, Page 16 (Supplement)
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158Delay in British Bill Affects Studios New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22985, 12 March 1938, Page 16 (Supplement)
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