FILM COMPANIES MERGE
BRITAIN AND AMERICA.
ASSETS EXCEED £30,000,000
NEW YORK, December 12.
Mr Clifford Hawley, president" of First National Pictures, announced today the combinat’on of British motion picture enterprises controlled by Lord Ashfleld and Lord Beaverbrook with their British .subsidiary com-, panies with First National Pictures and the Stanley Company, of America, flor the production, distribution, and exhibition of films throughout the United Kingdom. The combined assets are said to exceed £30,000,000. The new company plans to erect a cinematograph theatre in the West End of London with seating capacity for 5000 people. /
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HPGAZ19271214.2.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5216, 14 December 1927, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
94FILM COMPANIES MERGE Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5216, 14 December 1927, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hauraki Plains Gazette. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.