AN UNUSUAL FILM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 14

AN UNUSUAL FILM

Industries and Placement Service ■ A film * has been prepared by the Placement Office wliich is likely to attract a good deal of interest. It is remarkable i'or a number of industrial and other Dominion seenes of quite unusual interest, and provides a "closeup" of what is described as the homelife of an average New Zealand craftsman temporariJy "down on his luck.'' The film has been prepared, not i'or peouniary gaiu, but to diroct puhlic attention to the need for a systematised method of placing disengaged and other men in suitable employment, and to demonstrate, by a series of pictorial real-iife stories> the processes by which that work is beiug carx-ied on by the State Placement Service. Tho motif of tho film is revealej in its title, "Regained Horizons" — in other words, the finding of employment for those out of work. The tragedy of the workless is portrayed, and the sfery tells of the fortitude and cheeriuiness of the wife of a worker rendered desperate in his" unavailing search for work. The whole of the sets for the films were desigued and made at the Miramar studio, and the studio laboratory was responsible for the sound equipment. The film will be shown througbout New Zealand at an early dato by the J. C. Williamson Film Corporation, Ltd.