MOVIES, TALKIES, RADIO

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 598, 26 February 1929, Page 9

MOVIES, TALKIES, RADIO

UNIQUE BRITISH ELECTION

ORATORY AND PROPAGANDA

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Monday.

Elaborate arrangements already are in hand for the General Election in Britain. They are unlilw* those of any election fought in thi« country before.

Oratory and propaganda will be produced in the mass and mechanised by wireless loud-speakers. Films and talkie-lilms will be used in an effort to reach everyone in the kingdom. The chief national agent of each political party is busy organising these new aids to enable most of the electors, regardless of their habitation, to hear speeches delivered by the three leaders, Messrs. Baldwin, MacDonald and Lloyd George. Although the speakers will be hundreds of miles apart when they make their speeches, tlie latter will be broadcast throughout the nation from the outset of the campaign to the eve of the poll. In addition, wherever a member of the Cabinet or a party leader speaks, his speech will be. relayed by means of telephone lines and loud-speakers to series of other meetings. It is hoped in this way that speakers will address as many as 20 meetings at the same time.

Scores of talkie-films will be used throughout the kingdom. The total number of electors is expected to be 2R.000,000, compared v th 22,000,000 in 1924.