BIG PICTURES FOR AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE PROJECT TO COST £IO,OOO EACH* Fine Art Motion Picture Co.. Ltd., an organisation capitalised at 80,000,000 dollars (£16,000,000), which includes the former Meiro concern and United Aj'tists. with headquarters at Hollywood and branches in London, Venice and Nice, is about to invade the Australian film-producing xcorld. one of its dramatic directors, Albert O. Bradshaw has been in Melbourne for a week (says an Australian exchange), to start a train of arrangements for making three pictures, of which one at least j will be made in and around Melbourne. Each picture will entail an expediture in Austria of between £IO,OOO and £15,000, and production will be started within six weeks. > } The company contemplates paying 30s a day for supers, during the production of each film, over a period of 1 about two months, and, with the ex-1 ception of a few stars to be brought over from Hollywood, the casts will comprise only Australians.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 340, 28 April 1928, Page 25
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158BIG PICTURES FOR AUSTRALIA Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 340, 28 April 1928, Page 25
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