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THE FILMS BILL
ate at once to Southern Rhodesia, which at the moment is about to engage in slimming the Statute book instead of add- ing
rth And it is not Just a matter of an ounce here and there pounds and pounds are to be sweated off in one fine swoop Southern Rhodesia's Par
ament has more than 1,200 bsolete laws down for immediate prospect that ought to rejoice the hearts of all stalwarts A higher average standard who hold that more laws mean British pictures should result less happiness. from the Cinematograph Films It may be wondered how on Bill which the President of the earth Southern Rhodesia, which Board of Trade recently intro-has not yet reached its fiftieth duced in the House of Commons.birthday as a part of the British From the filmgoer's point of Empire, has come to acquire such view it has only one important a prodigions packet of obsolete ending the manufacture of rub the rash act of the new colony in bishy films merely to satisfy taking over, în 1890, the whole Cape quota requirements. The Moyne of the existing laws Committee proposed that all films Colony, many of which were submitted for quota should be the Roman-Dutch variety, and. subjected to a quality test, and already dead letters in this they have had the back-lessly out of date. ing of the exhibitors. The Gov-went back
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them, for the task of estimating quality example, forbade “any going to would be too difficult, and that the country on Sundays to drink producers would be discouraged or play there", all citizens were from embarking on expensive to go to church on that day and films if they were uncertam of were "bound at the second bell to their fate when made. It has appear to answer the roll, and therefore substituted a cost test further to be present in the con- providing that any long British gregation. That enactment is film on which £1 a foot, with a still theoretically in force minimum of £1,500, has been Southern Rhodesia and, on spent for labour and salaries paper at any rate, it has the air shall automatically rank for re-of laying a pretty considerable gistration. The assumption is stymie against any gawdless ten- that, faced with this expenditure,dencies towards Sunday morning the producer will at least aim at four-balls. constructing a film of sufficient
ernment, however, considers that century enth
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entertainment value to recoup Cure or Cause? him. But there can be few film-
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now
more
goers who cherish the delusion Dr. Paul R. Vergoza, said to that expense in manufacture be probably the only man necessarily guarantees an accept living who understands the an- able product or who would not cient writing of Iloilo Province, welcome a greater opportunity in the Philippines, has just com- for films economically construct-pleted a book in this Hiligayon led but of artistic value Upon script. The script is described these the Government has not as resembling the Chinese and whelly closed the door, for the written upwards in horizontal producer whose expenditure does columns. But the puzzle of what not reach the stipulated figure the language looks like will not may apply to have his film judg-worry philologists, since only Dr. Vergoza himself will be able to ed on its merits
read it ful it will secure
In that respect he Another of the Bill's cies is in the scant encourage-fortunate than most transcribers ment it gives to British short of ancient writings, for there is films It is true that they are at least no one to challenge what- for the first time placed in a cate-ever interpretation he cares to Igory of their own and given a 10 put on the Hiligayon hierogly- per cent. quota rising ultimately phics. He will never suffer the to 20 per cent. But there is no mortification endured by Profes provision for subjecting them to sor Sayce and Professor Zanger- a test of any sort. The exhibi meister as they read the tor who chooses to avail himself tion of a specimen for 90 per cent of the short pic-the Roman Baths tures he shows of the unending runs supply of American shorts that are given away with feature pictures may satisfy quofa quirements to the other per cent. by showing any British work he chooses, however, fee ble. The arrangement is
compliment to the distinguished
Bath.
Incised inscription. Read by Professor Sayce as a record of the cure of a Roman lady by the Bath waters, sted by three
nesses, read by Pr
germeister as a curse on
for stealing a table cloth. On the other hand must
group of documentary film-mak-admitted that fers whose observation of the life gree of
and industry of
been much
eir
and has brought distinction
British-film”
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