THE FILM INDUSTRY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24714, 17 September 1941, Page 4

THE FILM INDUSTRY

ALLEGED PROPAGANDA INQUIRY IN AMERICA WASHINGTON, (Rec. 9 p.m.) Sept. 15. The chairman, Mr D. Worth Clark, complained to-day that newspaper columnists made a mass attack against the Senate sub-committee investigating the alleged pro-war propaganda of the film industry. Mr Clark said that such concerted smearing smacks of conspiracy. He read a letter from Mr Laurice Saffel, of Seattle, the manager of Loen’s Theatres, in which it was alleged the Government desired the theatre to exhibit, the film “The Land of Liberty.” and suggested that the Government wanted to know the names of the theatres declining. Mr Lowell Mellett. director of the Office of Government Reports, testified that his office had nothing to do with the production and disti'ibution»of “The Lend of Liberty.” and it most certainly had not asked for a list of exhibitors who declined to show it. PRODUCTION IN BRITAIN DRASTIC REVISION PROBABLE LONDON. Sept. 13. The acute shortage of stars, labour and studio space will probably cause film companies or the Government to revise drastically the entire system of production, says the Daily Express. The paper predicts that the revision will include the pooling of stars, directors, studios, cameramen, and technicians, and the banning of the formation of new companies.