PROPAGANDA
WIDE USE OF FILMS.
MELBOURNE, April 29. Dr. Brooko-Nicholls, who recently returned to Melbourne, after two years in America, during which he lived for five months in Hollywood, was the first witness to-day when tho Federal Films Commission resumed its sitting. “ Propaganda by means of tho film, he said, “is a weapon that no modem nation can afford to neglect, and. no country, least of all Britain, can aJlord to have films broadcast among the colored peoples of the Orient which hint at the lowering of British prestigo.” He said there was only one way for the Commonwealth Government to deal with the problem of the American film in Australia, apart- from a prohibitive duty. That was by reconstructing and elaborating the Federal film branch of the bureau of immigration. Every high school in America had its moving picture machine and auditorium, said I)r. Brooke-Nicholls, and it was current comment that in America film stars set the fashions. In Australia the film industiy had not developed in accordance with the part it played in tho life of the community. He advised the commission to get into touch with the New Zealand Government, as New Zealand was releasing pictures in 360 theatres in America.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 4
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