FILMS FOR THE EMPIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 631, 6 April 1929, Page 9

FILMS FOR THE EMPIRE

SUPPLY FROM BRITAIN COMMITTEE SET UP British Official Wireless RUGBY, Thursday. The Secretary of State for the Dominions and Colonies, Mr. L. S. Amery, has set up a committee to examine the arrangements existing for the Bupply and censorship of cinematograph films for public exhibition in the colonies, protectorates, and mandated territories; and to consider in what way the arrangement could be improved. The inquiry is to have special reference to the following points; (1) The desirability of developing the uses of the cinematograph as an instrument of education in the widest sense. (2) The desirability of po.” ticai as well as economic grounds of encouraging the exhibition of British films. Captaijj William Brass, Conservative M.P. for Clitheroe, Lancashire, Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Health, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, will be chairman of the committee. The other members will include Sir Hesketh Bell, formerly Governor of Mauritius; Sir Charles O’Brien, formerly Governor of Barbadoes; Major Ruxton, formerly Lieu-tenant-Governor of the Southern Provinces of Nigeria; Mr. Creighton, of the Empire Marketing Board; and Mr. Beatty, formerly of the Malayan Civil Service.