AWARDS MADE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 359, 13 February 1937, Page 7

AWARDS MADE.

PUBLICITY FILM. Selection Made For National i Film. I Press Association —Copyright. Welling'on. To-day. i Fr;\m 135 film scenarios submitt ’d j for the Government Publicity De- ’ par; merit’s t out st, repress n "ng as- ; piling authors in all parts of the Do- , min on, four have been select 'd as | outstanding, and are to be sent for 1 expert criticism to Australia before , a final award is made. Th? authors • of these fc nar’os are: Mr. S Cotton, 89 Worcester Stre e t, Chr i s t church. Mils E. Brown, 280 Adelaide ■ Road, Wellington. Mr. W. Graeme-Holder, 15 Baffield Road. IT rne Bay, Auckland. Mr. ('. Ly.nton, 26 Connaught Terrace, Brooklyn, Wellington. ■ The stories written- by these four j people are to be subjected to the ! criticism of the organisation which J would be handling the r lease of any j film made from them, to obtain the j vie t of the distributors as to their i likelihood of proving a popular suc--1 cess. It will be some time before

I the final decision can be made, j The contest was announced last I October, when prizes' totalling £45 • were off red for the best scenario for 1 a film of up to 5000 feet giving full 1 scop-' for New Zealand publicity pro- ; paganda, combined with a h’gh stan- ’ dard of entertainment. The first : prize is £25, with two other prizes of £lO each. The majority of the entries shov. 1 - 1 ed a certain monotony, the popular ' th'me being a pretext for a journey : through the country along the recog--1 nised scenic routes. Although many contestants had devoted considerable I attention to the details of their stor- | ies, too many would have required | a producing organisation on the i scale of an Elstree or a Hollywood • studio, instead of the restricted re- • sources >ou the Miratnar stddio, tlo i put them on the screen. Th*? object 1 of the competition being to obtain a i theme for a publicity film to be local- ! ly produced, such elaborate scenarios | obviously could not be adapted to ui? j needs of the Department. The four j which were finally selected are ctal- . ed to be of outstanding quality.