BRITISH FILM QUOTA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 409, 18 July 1928, Page 2

BRITISH FILM QUOTA

EXHIBITORS OBJECT TO LEGISLATION Press Association. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Th© half-yearly conference of A** Motion Picture Exhibitors’ tion to-day considered ihe proponej legislation on a British film quota a®" other matters, and has come to©*** elusions which will be presented i th© Prime Minister. . Th© main objection to the Bill in incidence upon the New Zealacv theatre-owner are:— , (1) It sets up far too costly cumbrous a hesitative machinery reach its objective. (2) Th© compulsory quota in ‘ present form will in all probability feat the very purpose aimed at by sponsors. 0 The chairman of the meeting. Mr - ’ N. Gillespie, said: It is easy to that th© very principle of is almost inevitably sure to th© showing of a poor British P rcK, Tv. thus doing irreparable damage to cause of the British film. LTneoo mic interference such as this in ordinary cause of business can only justified by its complete success reaching its Imperial objective. are going to suggest that a Film of Trade b e set up with power to regulations on such matters j quota, but only when they are , to be necessary. We have ©iff 0 j machinery to effectuate the sh S, and a proper quantity of British this will probably do better than regulated by Parliamentary « iCU