BRITISH FILMS STILL GOING STRONG

Chronicle (Levin), 6 November 1947, Page 5

BRITISH FILMS STILL GOING STRONG

Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 5. Denying in a letter to The Times that there is any erisis in the Britisli lilm industry, 8ir Alexander Ivorda says there is unparalleled activity in Britisli studios. Britisli lilm companies are at present working on 20 first-feature productions and at least a dozen more are now awaiting lirst showing. Hollywood itself, 011 its own admission, is producing only 24 ilrst-features at the present moment. "I think it should be mentioned," says iSir Alexander Korda, ' ' that all the Britisli lilm studios put together liardly possess as many stages as one of the big studios in Ilollywood and that the number of people employed in the Britisli lilm industry is liardly 15 per cent. of the number employed in Ilollywood studios. I don't think any accusation against the efficiency of Britisli lilm producers is justilied or that loose statements about tlie critical position in whieh the British lilm studios lind themselves, have any foundation whatever. Quite the contrary. If the quality of our pictures goes 011 standing up to the demands of the public, we never had a better chance of success."