MOVIETONE TRUCK FOR N.Z.

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 862, 4 January 1930, Page 12

MOVIETONE TRUCK FOR N.Z.

FOX POLICY FOR 1930 Mr. Stanley S. Crick, managing director of Fox Movietone, has just returned from an extensive tour of the United States, and is now in New Zealand. Interviewed on his arrival, Mr. Crick stated that his company had formulated plans which would be of great interest and importance to New Zealand. While in America Mr. Crick arranged that a Fox Movietone News crew and complete outfit should be stationed permanently in Australia and New Zealand, and already many important events in Australia have been recorded in sight and sound and distributed throughout the world. Mr. Crick stated that the Fox Movietone News camera car and crew would arrive in New Zealand about the middle of Ja.nuary. and would proceed immediately to make pictures. Such spectacular items as can be obtained in the thermal districts— Maori folk-songs and dances, the active volcano Ngauruhoe, in National Park —nesting of gannets at Cape Kidnappers, Mako fishing in the South Island, and other items too numerous to mention, will be recorded and distributee! tnrougnout the world, and will constitute one of the greatest advertisements New Zealand has ever received. Mr. Crick stated that the New Zealand Government had kindly offered every assistance to Fox Movietone News, and was assisting in every possible way, so that everything of interest and importance could be thorougly covered. Regarding outstanding talkies, liis company would release here during the coming year, Mr. Crick said that his company had made plans for the making of the greatest array of motion pictures in the history of the industry. Some of these pictures were already completed and would be released almost immediately. ‘The Cockeyed World” he considers as the most laughable entertainment he has ever seen, and for spectacle “Married in Hollywood” has never been surpassed. Of the 52 all-talking, singing and dancing productions his company had scheduled for 1930, 24 were already completed, while seven are now being filmed, and nine others in active preparation, leaving only 14 to be launched.

Complete productions include the two already mentioned, “Sunnyside Up." in his opinion the greatest picture ever made, “Romance of the Rio Grande." “Salute,” “Why Leave Home," "The Girl from Havana," “The World Moves On." “A Song of Kentucky," “Big Time," “They Had to See Paris," “Love, Live and Laugh,” “Frozen Justice.” “The River,” “Christina,” “City Girl,” “Lucky Star,” “Lone Star Ranger,” “South Sea Rose," “Seven Faces,” “The Three Sisters” ajid “Happy Hays.”