FILM IN COLOUR

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 693, 19 June 1929, Page 7

FILM IN COLOUR

DOMINION’S BEAUTY SPOTS VIEWS OF WELLINGTON Showing all colours in a manner remarkably true to life, a colour film of “Wellington. Empire City of the South.” was screened privately by the Government Publicity Department at Wisemans, Ltd., yesterday afternoon. The department has recently imported several miniature projecting machines from the United States, and yesterday’s screening was the first of its kind in Auckland. The film is in ordinary black and white, but the natural colouring effect is obtained by the fitting of a special lens to the projector. In this, red and green discs revolve at a high speed. In the film screened yesterday the red of Wellington’s trams and of the funnels of steamers in the harbour stood out particularly well, as also did the natural colour of the sky. Even the numerous shades in the make-up of a dress were plainly discernible.

The scenes on the harbour were particularly well produced. Several embodied the dark blue of the harbour itself in the foreground. with the white-crested waves breaking on the shore, the dull grey hills standing sentinel in the background, and the blue of the sky.

The film had been criticised in Wellington as having a distinct tendency to flicker, but yesterday this was not apparent to any great degree. The Government Publicity Department intends to provide its agents throughout New’ Zealand with small machines for tourist purposes. Machines of the standard size are on order, and. on arrival, films showing all the country’s beauty spots will be screened.