UNJUST CRITICISM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17237, 17 April 1930, Page 5

UNJUST CRITICISM

BRITISH TALKING FILMS PRODUCERS INDIGNANT

(Elec. Tel. CopyrieM—Uiiitud Tress Assn.) LONDON, April 18.

BiiUsh lilm producers are indignant at the cabled extract from the report of the Australian Censorship Board suggesting that British films li.iid to be cut more heavily than 'others.

"They could not have more than three, or foiir British talking films," said Mr. Herbert Wilcox, of the British and .Dominions Film Corporation. "Therefore I should like to know whereon they based the statement that the best talking films of English life are made in America- and that British lilms require more cutting than American."

Mr. Wilcox says: "The British display a greater sense of Illness and decency than any other country. The production 'of the technical side of the British industry had made enormous strides."

The Morning Post comments: "The censors, however expert in judging fiims, know very little of English life, or would not mistake a travesty for a faithful picture. All of which goes to prove what n powerful hold American films have established in Australia and' what a long way British, producers have to go in order to shake that hold."