QUOTA CLAUSE IN FILM BILL MODIFIED
ENGLISH COMPROMISE By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright RUGBY, Tuesday. The Government’s Cinematograph Films Bill, which seeks to abolish “blind” and “block booking” and to secure the exhibition of a fixed quota of British films, has been modified. The bill originally proposed a quota of 71 per cent, of British films, rising 2 i pec cent, every year to 25 per cent. That proposal has been amended so that it shall operate for 12 years only if the bill is passed and the maximum quota will be 20 per cent, instead of 25 per cent.
It was stated that the trade had agreed that the permanent protection of the .industry was undesirable. The Government Irad no desire to give it excessive security, but merely wished to establish it on a national and Imperial basis.
The committee accepted the Government’s amendment.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 72, 16 June 1927, Page 1
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