British Makers Film New Talkies

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 25

British Makers Film New Talkies

One Hundred Ready NEW COMPANY’S PLANS

British film makers missed j a golden opportunity when they failed to adopt talkies ! from the outset, hut the lee- ! way is now being made up. The chief difficulty is that ) of obtaining permission to \ project British films on i A.merican machines.

MNEW company, British Talking Pictures, announces that no fewer than 100 full-length dialogue or synchronised music-and-sound films are available for cinemas which use their apparatus. These include, besides their own from the Wembley studios, all the sound films of British International Pictures, commencing with new synchronised versions of “Moulin Rouge” and “Kitty,” and to be followed immediately by “Juno and the Paycoek.”

British Instructional Films announce at the same time that Mr. Anthony Asquith’s current picture, “A Cottage in Partmoor,” will be offered as a synchronised sound-film. This firm’s sound studios at Welwyn, Hertfordshire, are complete. They are being equipped by the Klangfilm process.

British Talking Pictures’ studios at Wembley are busier than ever, and this firm has made improvements recently in their reproduction of sound. Engineers, electricians, and cameramen from their studios have gone to Italy to superintend work at the new sound studios of Ente Nazionale per la Cinematografia, the State-supported cinematograph company. British talking picture apparatus is being installed throughout Italy. Now Gainsborough Pictures, the firm with studios at Islington, announce an all-sound programme. Several of