Films Arranged for Foreign Ears

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 834, 30 November 1929, Page 25

Films Arranged for Foreign Ears

Trained Actors to Explain Each Scene PLAN IN OPERATION One of the principal problems cing faced by talking pictures is licit of making suitable releases foi countries in which English is not spoken. N ' the first mad rush AST WfMp, little , thought was given 10 this market. Millions were to he made at home. Let the future take care of itself. But sober second thought and the return to the normal box office | state of affairs made producers pause everywhere. After all, foreign markets totalled 40 per cent, of the gross business done: It is estimated j that there are 27,1138 houses through- | our - Europe. Of course, the English 1 speaking countries absorb almost half I of America’s film export trade which totals about 35,000,000 yearlv It is the other 40,000,000 in foreign business that is being threatened. All sorts of solutions were proposed. Radio Pictures has come forward with what it believes to be the one really effective method. In fact, »hi» method has been adopted only after consultation with foreign buyers oil film. Foi eign actors have been engaged to speak prologues and interpolations to RKO features in their native languages. The general plot of the story, its