BETTER BRITISH FILMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 62, 6 December 1919, Page 13

BETTER BRITISH FILMS

Tho British film industry, long neglected, is beginning to show unmistakable signs of vigorous life. For some time past. British kinema. productions have been becoming increasingly ambitions under (he spur of competition from tho United States, where the business of filmmaking ranks tho country's fifth greatest industry. Now a cb'mrmny has'just been formed in London With a cnpital of 'JiI.OM.OOO, which will concern itself exclusively with the production of British films. It is going to establish a kinema city at Harrow Wenld Park with the largest studm in the world, a hostel to accommodate. iti own actors and actresses, and tho capacity to produce no fewer than sixty pictures in n year., Not the least interesting and hopeful feature of the project is the fact that some of England's most eminent, dramatists, including Sir Arthur Pinero. Mr. B. C. Carton, and Mr. Edward Knoblock, have consented In act ns members of a consultative literary committee. More and more, too, our best-known actors and actresses are turning their talents to the filmns, from which for n lmig lime theyexhibited a tendency to holdnloofr ""•< ' k '