PROTECTING FILM INDUSTRY

Southland Times, Issue 24056, 21 February 1940, Page 5

PROTECTING FILM INDUSTRY

PROBLEM FOR BRITISH STUDIOS The consensus of British thought on the problems created by the war is well summed up by Adrian Brunel, vice-president of the British Association of Film Directors, who declared recently: — “The British film production industry has worked heroically for 20 years to recover the ground it lost in the last war. Now that we have created a growing demand for our films in the British Isles, throughout the Empire and in other parts of the world, it would be folly to allow to collapse an industry making a product so easily transported as films, to say nothing of the economic effort of throwing out of work a host of highly-trained men and women.”

Britain therefore will carry on; and there is every reason to believe that, with the coming of peace, England will continue to be an important centre of international film production, and continue to offer to Hollywood the rivalry that has made for superior screen entertainment on both sides of the Atlantic. She will not have to begin all over again.