BRITAIN’S COME-BACK

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 950, 17 April 1930, Page 11

BRITAIN’S COME-BACK

MOVIE HEAD’S REPLY TO AUSTRALIA DISPLEASED WITH CENSOR LONDON, Tuesday. British film producers are indignant about cabled extracts from the report of the Australian Film Censorship Board. “The Australian censors cannot have seen more than three or four English talkie films,” said Mr. Herbert Wilcox, of the British Dominions Film Corporation. “Therefore, I should like to know on what they base the statement that the best talkie films of English life are made in America, and that British films require twfice as much cutting as American films.’’ Mr. Wilcox contended that British films display a greater sense of fitness and decency than those of any other country. The technical side of the British industry had made enormous strides. The “Morning Post” comments that the Australian censors, however expert they may be in judging films, know very little about English life, or they would not mistake travesty for a faithful picture. All of which goes to prove, says the paper, what a powerful hold American films have established in Australia, and what a long way British producers have to go in order to shake that hold.