BRITISH FILMS
PROTECTIVE MEASURE MODIFICATION OF ORIGINAL PROVISIONS MAXIMUM QUOTA 20 PER CENT (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Rugby, June 14. The Government Cinematograph Films Bill which abolishes the so-called blind and block booking, and secures the exhibition of a fixed quota of British films, has been modified as the result of a meeting of representatives of the trade. Details of the agreement were revealed in the House of Commons by the President of the Board of Trade to-day. The Bill proposed a quota of seven and a-half per cent, of British films, rising by two and a-half per cent, annually to twenty-five per cent. The proposal has been modified so that it operates for 12 years only, and the maximum quota is twenty per cent, instead of twenty-five. It was stated that the trade agreed that permanent protection of the industry was undesirable, and the Government had no desire to give excessive security, but merely to establish the industry on national and Imperial grounds. The committee accepted the Government’! amendment.—British Official Wireless.
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Southland Times, Issue 20205, 16 June 1927, Page 7
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