BRITISH FILMS FOR OUR COLONIES
IMMENSE POSSIBILITIES DO NOT WANT “TOSH”! The unfortunate position of parts of the Empire with reef’d to cinematograph films was jhscusjied by the conference in London by Colonial Governors and officials. Tll e general opinion of the heads of Colonial Service was that the effect upon natives of cinematograph splays where the films shown were ** fegu ii ted was very se.rious. There been several instances of films f a definitely anti-British nature' ber,g shown. Sil * Edward Grigg. Governor and ur, unander- ip -Chief of Kenya Col°n>'. sail: The films shown in the colony are Morally D f two types. We receive ‘ ms that have go. d, possibly amusstories, and th.it will interest the .* lfl ves. But. they are usually so old they do not screen well, flickerbadly. other type is what one may JJttfiably term ‘tos i,’ unfit for either or co loured peoph*. The British jJJJ-iKaking industiy nust come to aiv i tlle immense possibilities that n ,,25J il in the Kmp.re, with audiences u P»bering hundreds of thousands who - ..ifunu opuiu-u3ieaoj Xiuo 4 suor at Present seeing with few excep-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 146, 10 September 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)
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187BRITISH FILMS FOR OUR COLONIES Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 146, 10 September 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)
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