ALL BRITISH FILMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2974, 11 January 1917, Page 3

ALL BRITISH FILMS

BEGINNING OF A NEW INDUSTRY

AT ASHTEAD, SURREY.

In a new factory which was recently opened at Ashtead, in Surrey, the foundation's have been laid tor a great British industry in manufacturing film stock for kinoina purposes. Already thee are 30U skilled workers engaged at, the factory, and the British Kim Stock Co. aro able to turn out 3,000,000 ft.— nearly 600 miles—of film stock a week. The time is not far distant, it is stated, when Kngland will no longer bo dependent upon foreign countries for any of the constituents of film stock, and when the films shown in the kinoma houses of this country will be, from the raw material to the finished picture, entirely British. Kinema houses are now a great Source of revenue to the country. The Chancellor of the Exchequer estimated that £8,000,000 would bo obtained from tlio theatres and kinemas from tho amusement tax, but it is already clear that the returns are at the rate of £10,000,000 a year from cinema houses alone.