MR. A. G. McGOWAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 538, 15 December 1928, Page 10 (Supplement)

MR. A. G. McGOWAN

AUSTRALASIAN FH.MS Mr. A. G. McGowan, general manager of Australasian Films (N.Z.), Ltd., might be considered one of the veterans of the film business, having joined in its early days. The first big film attraction Mr. McGowan was actually connected with was the reproduction of the Britt-Nelson Fight Film, fought in September, ( 1906, for the light-weight championship of the world. It shows the advance of films to-day when it might be remembered that newspapers and public, in commenting on the Britt-Nelson Fight Film, commented on the enormous length of it, 5,000 feet. In those days an exhibitor toured

practically over the whole of Australia with his own portable plant, and carried a staff, even including an electrician. To-day it is very different. Mr. McGowan has indulged in many and various occupations, at one time being a school teacher in N.S.W., and even a cattle drover. For the past six years Mr. McGowan has spent practically the whole of his time in New Zealand. Two and a-half years of that time he has been in charge of the Fox Films Corporation, and since 1925 he has directed the destinies of Australasian Films (N.Z.), Ltd., who handle Master Pictures in this country. Mr. A. G. McGowan was recently elected president of the Film Exchange Association of New Zealand.

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