FILM INDUSTRY
WHY BRITAIN JOINED IN WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. fjrent Britain decided to build up a motion picture industry because it had a clirod .hearing on American trade, Mr. Sidney It. Kent, presidium. " ! Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corpora tion, testified yesterday before a Senate inter-Skate commerce subcommit tee. “So many American automobiles were shown in films in England.” Mr. Kent said, “that people began to buy them.” Me told the committee, conducting the hearing on the Neely Anti-Block Booking Bill, that many exhibitors were at fault for the showing of immoral films. , “in many eases they blame the producers, when in reality they are not forced to show the films,” he said. “This indust ry*is an art,” Mr. Kent added. “It niay he a low type of art, but it’s an art: nevertheless. Unless vou can legislate goodness, unless von Van get 20 writers to turn out 20 ‘David Oopperfields’ a year, when there was only one written in the his lory of the world, you will not do mtii'h bv legislation.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18990, 15 April 1936, Page 13
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171FILM INDUSTRY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18990, 15 April 1936, Page 13
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