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BRITISH
FILMS
For A Growing Help For A
Industry
GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE'S
PROPOSALS
The Committee appointed by the Judice the output of British Aims Board of Trade to consider the to the order of foreign renters. position of British films published The Committee conclude that ra- their report recently. This Com-sonable initial figures for the mittee was set up, in view of the magnitude of the renters' and ex- approaching expiry of the Cine- nibitors' long film quota would be matograph Films Act, 1927, to ad- 20 per cent. and 15 per cent. res- vise the Ministry what, if any, pectively, measured on the basis of the total length of registered mensures were still required in the public interest to promote the pro-long films acquired for renting, or duction, renting, and exhibition of actually exhibited, as the case may
be, as at present. such films. The Report recom menda the continuance of the Cinematograph Films Act, 1937, in an amended and extended formi. the setting up of a Films Com mission to administer the Act, and the continuance of a quota for an- other 10 years
"
In view of the loyalty with which exhibitors have worked the Act in the pst future legislation should, while helping film production in this country to the utmost, not be unduly onerous on the exhibiting end of the industry. Having re- The Report discusses the value gard to the uncertainty as to the of a protective tarif as a means actual output of Aims in this to maintain and establish the Bri-country during the next few years tish, film industry and comes to the conclusion that, although a smail increase in the specific duty now levied on important films may be desirable, the most effective way of protecting the industry in this country is the continuance of the requirement of a quota on the renting and exhibition of British Alms.
The Act of 1927 imposes quotas on the total lengths of long flims --that is. films of which the re-
they
Scientific Aids. To Industry
Reducing Nervous Strain: The Radium: "Hen"
No problem would seem to be too hard for the Department of Scientic and Industrial Research to solve, and evidence of what i can do is to be found at the Public Health Exhibition at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington.
To find a radium needle in a haystack, for example, is child's play, and the instrument which would accomplish this task is one of the many interesting exhibits on view.
The chief object of the Depart- ment is to assist British industry In the everyday 'application of the reauita .of scientific research operating through its
0971
search establishmenta
re-
Included in these establishments
is the National Physical Labora- tory, one of the duties of which is to take care of the 25 grammes of radium, valued at £200,000 and distributed in 7,000 containers
throughout the country.
Visitors to the exhibition can see this "radium hen" and also the Work done on the protection of patients and X-ray workers.
Occasionally a container is lost; and then the "radium hen" is called in to find it. This ap Daratus contains a special "lonisa- consequent on the hoped-for abolition chamber" attached to a loud- tion of the "quota quickle" and its speaker, and when the search is substitution by films of good getting "warm," the lost radium causes louder and louder clucks in quality, the Committee are of
the speaker. opinion that it would be undesir- able, in the interests of the exhibi- tors, to suggest the precise scale of the increases, by which the quota on exhibitors should rise from the initial level of 15 per
This laboratory has also devoted cent. which
recommend. considerable attention to the pro- While wishing to protect the ex-blem of reducing noise in build- hibitors it is felt, however, that à ings, and working models include gistered length 13 3,000ft. and over steadily increasing output of nims one which demonstrates how the --acquired for renting, and ex- is necessarily contingent on an as-
noise of foot-stepe overhead can hibited respectively, and quotas on sured and reasonable market for: be reduced by the use of what is the total lengths of all flms ao ac- them in this country, from which,
known as a floating door.
quired. and exhibited. Separate after all, the greater portion of quotes on short flims-films of a their revenue must be derived. registered length below 3,000ft- The quota of British films ex- are not at present required by thể hibited should, in the Committee's Act. The result of the operation view, ultimately reach a figure as of the quota in this manner has, high as 50 per cent. of all films it was represented to the Commit- | shown on the screens in this coun- tee. been definitely harmful to the production of short British flims; for it is possible tor a renter or exhibitor to compensate for the renting or exhibition of foreign short Alms by an increase in his propertion of British long flims. and this has in fact been done. The proportion of British short Alms shown in Great Britain in the year ended September. 1935. was 4.21 per cent, compared with the previous year's percentage of 6.28: and this reduction was not attributable to a reduced output in 'the later year.
VALUE OF SHORT FILMS
It was represented to the Com- mittee that the short film indus- try requires greater
in
try. It is not their intention to rẻ- commend that mere output of Aims should, simply because they are British, form the basis of the quota. They regard it às of but- standing importance that general quality, from the point of view of the public who see the flims, as well as numbers or length should be taken into account. “
QUALITY FIRST
It is essential that regard shoulde be had by the administering au- thority, in fixing the quota, to the general quality of the films avail- able from the point of view of the public who will see them. The Committee. do not wish to force the public to see' films which they do protection,not want to see, just because the than it has yet received. Oppor-Alms are British, but rather to tunities of training both the higher create conditions under which the and the general personnel 'required| British film industry will be in a Long Aim production come position to produce films which, by through the making of short films. their excellence, command a mar- The short film field, · moreover, ket. It should, therefore, be made permits the employment of capital a statutory direction to the au- too small for long film production thority to fiave regard to the gene- and thus permits entry into the ral quality of the Alms registered. industry of new production in- during one year when determining terests. The short film also gives both renters' and exhibitors' quotas the opportunity for experimenting for the succeeding quota year. with new ideas in film production The success of the industry will within reasonably safe Anancial mainly be judged in the public es- limits while it frequently has a timation by the number and special cultural or other value of quality of the British "first fea- its own, The Committee
ture" films produced. strongly of opinion that the pro- duction of such filma in this coun- try should be developed in all pos- sible ways, and they accordingly recommend, that there should in the future be a renters' and an ex- hibitors' quota on long films and a separate renters and exhibitors' -quota on short Alms and, that the short quotas should not be met, as in effect they have been up till now, by an increase in the number of British long Alims rented and exhibited respectively.
are
Ample choice of films will be al- lowed to exhibitors; but, since the films registered for renters' quota may be less in number than those carrying exhibitors' quota, it by no means follows that the renters' quota will in the future bear any constant relationship to that ne the exhibitor.
The Committee suggest that a separate short alms quota woult at once stimulate greatly the out- put of British short films. As most of the classes of films now except- With regard to the magnitude of
ed, from the scope of the Act will, the quotas on long films, the Com-under their proposals, be brought mittee are impressed by the views within it, they are accordingly of of exhibitors that the quota of zo opinion that quotas much in ex- per cent. at present in operation
cess of the percentage shown in would be too high at the outset of recent years would be practicable new legislation if the quota system as the initial quotas for short alma is to be made really effective by under the new legislation. They do the elimination of films of bad not, however, contemplate that the quality made for quota purposes. quotas should commence at as high The evidence received indicates levels as for long nims-the facts that measure for the abolition of of the situation do not seem to They propose a Auch quota films will not by any warrant that. means involve the entire. elimina- quota of 15 per cent. on the ren- tion of the corresponding number ters and 10 per cent. In the case of of British films; for a certain exhibitors, as the initial figures, number of better British films measured on the same basis as for made for foreign renters will no long nima The, level of future doubt take their place, quite apart quotas should be fixed by the ad- from the expansion of purely Bri- ministering authority in the same tish production which it is hoped manner as for long films and with will at once result from the meas similar ultimate quote in view sures recommended. It is recog- as the goal to be reached if eir¬ nized, however, that other move, cumstances permit. ments in the Industry may preń: (Continued on .Page-12)
The Building Research Station through which the Department also works has concentrated among other things in providing healthy and comforable environment. To ensure suitable heating an instru- ment has been devised known as the eupatheoscope, and this reacts just like a clothed, human bring to heat and cold.
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