WEALTH IN FILMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 3

WEALTH IN FILMS

CAMERAMAN'S £42/000

\DDRESS TO eotaMans

SYDNEY, Sepi. 12. The programme controller of the Viisiralian "j-Jrondeasting Commission, Dr. Keith Barrv, in an address on "The .Modern Film" yesterday, said thai lie knew of a cameraman who had worked for eight weeks on a picture and had received £42,000 for his ser-

[)■:. Barrv was speaking at the luncheon of ihe North Sydney Rotary Club at the Went worth Hotel. He quoted the case of a girl actress who last year received £2OOO a week for four'months. Another film actress had told him that the make-up man received £l2O a week. Dr. Barrv said that if Australian films were to succeed outside Australia they must be or' equal merit to their

competitors. The ordinary man was a little more intelligent than he gave himself credit for being. film directors had been compelled to use stories by the 'best authors because even the ordinary man was interested in something "high-

brow." . . There were "stars behind the stars in the film industry. The most important man was the director. Star artists had been ruined by 'bad direc-

tors. The most pathetic people in the film industry. Dr. Harry said, were the "extras," thousands of whom "lived on the smell of an oil rag," hoping that some day they would become stars. In his' opinion, their .chances of succeeding were about 1000 times less than of winning a State lottery.