NEW FILM BILL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16317, 18 April 1927, Page 12

NEW FILM BILL

OWNER OF RATHE FRERES IS OPPONENT. LONDON. March 15. Lord Beavorbrook is heading an attempt lo break the proposed Film Quota Bill. As owner of Pathe Freros, he objects strongly to the quota system, declaring that it is ‘'difficult to imagine anything loss taleulated to develop the British film industry, along really progressive and successful lines, than the (lovernrnent’s new bill, with its strange and useless quota system.” He further argues that, if British films are of any use, they will be distributed all over the world ; if they are useless, there will lie no demand at all for them. The Times is likewise critical of the hill, although it approves the idea, cf Ice ikinc I In* block broking system cf the United Slates, which compels a British exhibitor, who wants a certain big picture, to hook many lie docs not want and probably has not even seen, in order lo obtain it.

I( is also obvious that the hill will In severely criticised in Parliament, on (lu* grounds I hat is is use.ess, and that if may art ideally stimulate the film iudustrv Without getting any really good pictures Strangely enough, all the technical directors on British films now being produced are Germans.