ENGLAND’S ‘HOLLYWOOD’
CENTRE OF FILM INDUSTRY BIG SCHEME OUTLINED By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Monday. After five years* work, Herr Ludwig Blattner announces that he has perfected a scheme to create a British “Hollywood.” He says he has acquired 400 acres of land in the neighbourhood of Elstre, Herts, which belongs to the firm of British International Films, which owns the largest film studios in Europe. It has been agreed for postal purposes to call the site Hollwood of England. Herr Blattner says: “I am planning a cinema colony of 30,000, and to include villas, hospital, hotel with 150 bedrooms, aeroplane club, cinema, carpenters’ and electrical shops, wardrobe and all the requisties of film making, with as many studios as are necessary. There will be the stages 350 ft. by 100 ft.. which will be the largest in the world. “The new Hollywood will become, if successful, the centre of the European film industry. I am spending £2000,000, rising to £5.000,000. lam at present working single-handled, but I am starting a company to control the land and produce films in the largest studio. This company will sub-let to other companies.— A. and N.Z. —Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 243, 4 January 1928, Page 9
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