BRITISH “TALKIES” DEFENDED.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18546, 17 April 1930, Page 9

BRITISH “TALKIES” DEFENDED.

Keply To Censors’ Report. INDIGNATION IN ENGLAND. (United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyrlgh t.) Received April 16, 10.55 p.m. LONDON, April 16. British film producers are indignant at the cabled extract of the report of the Australian Censorship Board. “They could not have seen more than three or four British talk films.” said Mr Herbert Wilcox, of the British and Dominions Film Corporation, “therefore I should like to know whereon they based the statement that the best talkie films of English life are made in America, and that British films require more cutting than the American.” Mr Wilcox contended that the British display a greater sense of fitness and decency than any other country. The production and technical side of the British industry have made enormous strides.

The “Morning Post” comments that the censors, however expert in judging films, know very little of English life, or they would not mistake a travesty for a faithful picture all of which goes to prove what a powerful hold the American films have established in Australia, and what a long way British producers have to go in order to shake that hold.