BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY.
SILENT AND SOUND PICTURES. Established on a sound footin'- • only a year before the advent ox ...e talking film, the British film industry has been faced with fresh difficulties in consequence of the revolution in j motion picture production. I Rumours have been current (hat I sufficient British ta king films to meet : British quota requirements would not i be forthcoming this year. The British Trade Commissioner’s Office at 1 Wellington, has received figures from the Federation of Brit sh Industries, j which represents practically all the I film produe ng firms. These figures cover two-thirds of the industry, and show that whereas their aggregate | output forT92B-29 was 81 films, their I output for 1929-30 will be 55 silent j films and 55 talkies, while 19 films w ll have both silent and sound versions. The trade is at present endeavouring to obtain cheaper equipment and j also the right of interchangeability ) for all films, instead of being bound to < use American reproducing apparatus.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 303, 29 August 1929, Page 2
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