Additions to Empire Film Library

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 16 (Supplement)

Additions to Empire Film Library

Twenty-five new films of scenic, industrial and wild life have been added to the Empire Film Library for projection in the cinema at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, and in the 2,500 educational establishments and social organisations in Britain which depend upon the library for a part of their programme. Twentythree have been supplied by the Governments of Canada, the Union of South A'frica, and Southern Rhodesia, two by the Travel and Industrial Development Association of Great Britain and Ireland, and one of British West Africa by Cadbury Brothers, Limited.

The films provide a welcome addition to the Empire library, and give an indication that Dominion and Colonial Governments, as well as great industrial corporations, are responding to the appeals made by Sir Harry Lindsay. Director of the Imperial Institute, to make good the shortage in the supply of films in order that the life and scenery of the Empire overseas may be brought more clearly before the minds of the rising generation in Britain. Last year the films in the library were shown to audiences estimated to total 5,000,000.