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This story should have brightened a
HE British film producer's remark at lunch Was symptomatic: "I don't know whether I can afford to join both Ciros' and 'Les Am- bassadeurs," he said.
So Hollywood is apparently not the only place where the champagne has gone a little flat.
Film people will usually tell you practically anything about thoir pictures. But yesterday--` when the "hining prospects" of
grim day...
by DAVID LEWIN
our film industry might have being re-issued in an attempt to provided an antidote to the grim get back some of its £000,000 cost, news from Cripps-I learned:--"was on location in Africa for ten ¡THAT seven of our smaller months.
An Engilsh film takes an average studios capable of making 20 of four months to complete. films a year are closed;
America they can make two films in THAT Denham and Pinewood, that time.
I mean. Ho in
the largest studios, which can Talk to David Niven If you need make between them six or an example of what sevan films at a time, are only back in Hollywood walling to start.
work on his next Amorlenn
Ala working on four:
But his English colour picture, THAT, 300 to 400 film techni. "Bonnie Prince Charlie" Ja otili
This wesk cious-30 per cent. of the Jogging along here.
celebrated six months in n studio. total number on feature films -are out of work; THAT many of our pictures take up to six months to make.
One-two-three BRITISH studios should be able
to make 100 first features a year. The producers say that this year they hope to turn out 765-but the most optimistic forecast of the showmen is that at the very best we shall get 40 to 45 first features.
Now what are
the factors holding up our films? I would list three:--
1. Lack of money; 2. Waste of time;
3. Misunderstanding of the
7.20 & 9.30 p.m. market where the big money is
-America.
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Take money first. When the independent producers go to the City in search of The Man With Money to Spare, this is what they are told: "Films are simply not a safe investment. much goes out and too little "comes in."
were.
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By the time the unit has made its second trip to Scotland, in the sum- mer over a year will have passed.
We can do much better. Sydney Box.completed "Easy Money" In seven weeks for £100,000. Herbert Wilcox Brected "Spring in Park Lane" in eight weeks.
· Lost chances NEXT Point 3: Do we under
sland the market where the big
money is both here and in Amerlen? At a time when the #feepeninst cost of living finds, new uses for our spare shillings, you would imagine that every effort would be made to magnetise people to the pay-box by films of irresistible entertainment valite.
It does nol seem 50. Michael Balcon put it to me this way: "We At seem quite good at pub seenes Ealing Studios-but as for sparkling comedy-we just seem to miss it."
American run in the red. Wa paid out more than it had taken at the box office.
No one knows precisely how many dollars, have come back to Bri- tain from the showing of our films In America.. Mr Nank has some of the Ogures. They remain his secret.
An American film chlef has sald "that the most a British Alm can earn le about £100,000 after costs have been paid. I do not suppose that one film has earned this much in dollars as far as Britain is con cerned. Earnings in the US. have a habit of being completely absorbed in such costs us advertising and ex- ploitation.
It all makes and rending.
The headline on this story was written because everyone agrees that now is Britain's great opportuni- ty in films--a, chance at least to lift our spirits with brisk entertainment,
The chance is being muffed.
POLICE
DOCTOR
"Wot makes you think we ain't doctors hurrying to an urgent opération ?."
THE MOST IMPORTANT
ELECTION OF
THE YEAR
inserezza
TE Arst days of the already Tfieren
These 10 descriptions, Italian electoral various phrasing, emerged from campaign developed phrases the first few million words of describing the' April 18 national political oratory and mud-sling- voting such as the following:
1. The cold war elections.
2.
The United States foreign policy elections.
ing which began in earnest with the formal announcement of the, opening of the electoral campaign.
At this writing, between 3. The elections for the con-
20,000,000 and 25,000,000 trol of the Mediterranean. Italians are expected to vote for.
4. The Marshall Plan elec- a new, two-house parliament.
tions.
There will be about 10 major lists of candidates, although more than 60 parties have already filed emblems giving them the right to file slates of candidates.
5. Communism's showdown with the Catholic Church, or vice versa.
I dare say Margaret Lockwood echoes that view. Tired of being "a heavy" since "The Wicked Lady,"
6. The Cominform test. has had to wait three months for
slie has
a part with a a laugh in it.
Only Herbert Wilcox come near 10 the mood of the mass audience. His of Curzon. Street," with Anna
Cousand Michael Wilding, "
was last year's box-office success.
British pictures fail at home
Y: ""do not stand a much better
Until Mr Rank announced his chance in America, £2,000,000 loss few people had
"Henry V." and "Great Expecta-
well in realised exactly how bad, things tions" did
the big city
were But most people In the in- cinemes where they
shown. dustry had had the uneasy feeling But many of the films we send out that one day the relentlessNESS of get a good run in what are termed mathematics would catch
"Tawny an the "art houses."
Pipit.' ran for 12 weeks in It was simply that most af for example.
them.
up
our pictures were costing more to New York, but in a cinema the size make than the £200,000 they can of the London Academy. take back at the cinemas in this
Great push
voice
country.
Examples: £500,000 for "Hemy
"An Ideal Hus T in the Middle West it is worse. V.": £600,000 for
U TO
audiences there even the band," and another £600,000 for British accents are slow. nnd unintel- "Anna Karenlua.”
ligible. I nm fold that when "Pic- Prestige' was always the explana cadilly Incident" is shown there tion. The iden in those days was Michael Wilding's speaking that if you spent enough money the will be "dubbed" so that he sounds picture was bound to be good. And like on American. that it would have_a_world_market, with the emphasis on America and There has been a great push-to
seli
British stars to the lis dollar sture. It didn't quite work Americans.. Cinema managers and out that way.
distributing companies who have helped there say the results have been "spotty." A British picture may do well in one city and then
Lost time NOW take a look at the second cause for the hold-up-waste of time in the studios.
unknown.
"fall on its face" in the next..
Advertising not only eats up the 05 money but often defeats itself These days you find that the sure, well."" "Life and Death of Colonel technique to make a film producer Blimp" was at one time advertised uncomfortable is to start asking by posters showing an old man leer- questions about the time he spends Ing at a young girl. The audience making his plctures.
attracted by that kind of appeal was "Anna Karenina" was six months bored: the audience which might In production. So was "Hamlet" have appreciated the m slmply "Men of Two Worlds,"
Is stayed away, "Colonel Blimp" ended
which
BY THE WAY
En una freda montanya Del terme de Odello, En la terre de Cerdanya,
Als confins del Rosaello..........
are only
By far the biggest contes- be the moderate
1.
Q.
Italy is in the throes of
an all-absorbing electoral campaign. Most of the news from Italy-and lot of it from Washington and Moscow-will be coloured by, or have a bearing on, the Italian elections between now
and the voting date, April 18. Here is the first overall look at these im- pending elections, written by the United Press Manager for Italy.
by EDWARD MURRAY
Control of the Mediterranean
7. The world's most impor- tant elections In 1948.
Iron B. Italy's
Curtain tants will
rightist Christian Democrats---- choice.
the Catholic party which con- involved, because the 10,000 Anglo- trols the government and the American troops at Trieste, the en-
Democratic Bloe, which includes the Communists Melinha ale base at Tripoli and the and left wing Socialists.
9. American Demoerncy ver-
sus-Russian-Democracy,
10. The "last chance" elec- "Popular
tions.
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1946 POLLING
-tire-Anglo-American-effort-in-Greece
the American reactivation
of the
United States fleet. with Marines in Italian and Greek walers, would all nullified or become impossible through Communist assumption of power through the Italian voting.
De
F the last national elections in A 1048, the Christian Democrats polled approximately 8.000.000 of the 22.000.000 total, and the Communists Jus! and Socialists together polled
8,000,000. The Communists are ever helleved to have incrensed
their ports strength considerably in the mean strategie, diagonal across the middle time, but the Suclalists have split
The Jeason tallan
Is geographical: the peninsula, with excellent and airflelds, slashes in Π
and a minority wing has denounced of the Mediterranean and dominates Communism and will run Indepen- it.
dently.
The first prediction of the outcome
CHURCH STAND
THE
Times
its
came in a recent London
world headquarters in Rome's editorial projecting the possibility of Vatican City, demonstrated its ̈vital" In victory by the Social Communist concern in the elections by openly
bloc.
joining in the battle against the Communists through Catholic news- papers.
of the election from outside Italy E Catholic Church, with
Predictions of their own certain victory by the major Italian conten- ders have been equally vociferous, indicating a pretty even batile.
The Catholic Church, with its world headquarters in Rome's Vatl- Five dead in a political gun fight can City, demonstrated its vital con- in the south during the first week of cern in the elections by openly join- the campaign indicate that there will ing in the battle against the Com- be few, if any. holds barred in the munists through. Catholic .news- electoral batüe.
The main issues of the campaign ore embodied in the foregoing 10 descriptions of how the elections look to all parties involved.
AMERICA'S POLICY
THE "cold war" label came from the fact that both the United
papers.
The Cominform came in for.men/
the non-Communists lion because charged that it was directing Com- munist strategy in the first big national clections in a member coun- try since it was formed.
Plon,
O runs the Catalan song of the Cerdagne, and when the other day I saw in a shop win in the county, dow a picture of the mountains are easily procura be the last was seen from Mount Bobawaba hybassy officials, close to the battle in and American versus Russian type at.. which guard Nuria, as you see assume that this
them from above Font-Romeu,
word on ttie cabmen aro
subject until appointed.
These issues of the cold war, Give her this
the new comet is Encke's, because a States and Russia are almost directly United States foreign policy, the force is diminishing in proportion to represented by the main contestants Mediterranean, the Marshall No gentleman's library is complete the inverse square of its distance the Christian Democral government the Cathalle Church and the Coment
without the "List of Hunting from the
Moreover Its purty, which the United States open- form naturally have led political donshire Cobmen," the standard parabola, or elongated ellipse, la ly supports, and the Italian Com- orators to see the Italian elections as work on this subject. Of this work apparently in inverse proportion munist Party, which speaks for the the most Important anywhere during
It this is so its Soviet Union.
the coming year. the PEN. Club said, "Since there to te hyperbola.
be certain number of cabmen perihelion passage may datel amed November 10, 1070, which is the and their names
United States foreign policy is so The more specifically Italian issues It is safe to very date on which Encke's comet directly involved that American Em- fall under the "Iron Curtain Choice'
Italy, beliove new St. Clair Weston and Dr. Glass.
Itailan election democracy, because the Italian Com
have openly announced I was transported in a flash of not of general or very wide interest,
outcome is more Impotant to the munists United States than whether a Demo- their inteallon of reforming drasti- time to the old stones of Eyne this book can be confidently recom-
crat or a Republican wins the cicc- cally Italy's political economy niang the lines of the so-called Eastern und the high cleft of Cambras mended to all foreigners whose aim The latest research has established.tions at home.
Democracies" Progressive d'Aze.
From remains found on Mount is to keep in touch with the names
To implement its policy, the United Iussia's wing. and initials of the cabmen of this
Ararat,
States has kept material aid flowing I heard the running water in that most English of our counties."
A That when Noah disembarked he to Italy (the total is now almost $2,- wild gully above the trees and saw review
To underline the importance of the In the the mist wreathing up and the early Kainarja ui Tarihi" says, "Factunt,
Turkish paper
was wearing
500,000,000), has kept its naval ves voting, non-Communists are telling sunlight on the snow. My
sels in Italian ports and has added their audiences it, is the last chance staff Durendal was in
(In a letter to the Journal of the Marines to the ships. Russia has con- election." They mean that if great rather than diverting.".
tho my hand,
Fossil Club, Professor Puffinger says:stantly objected to the material aid Communists and my bota was full of rough red Strabismus on the comet
win, they (moderates "We may have found, embedded in as imperialistic, and has specially and rightists) will never get another penny # bucketful.
God the gneiss deposits, the first wicker protested against the visits of United chance because Communists do not Then someone bumped into me, and D. STRABISMUS (Whom
Preserve) of Utrecht told a work sou'wester." Gnalss work, if States ships and the sending of the believe in the same kind of elections. Press conference that, in bis opinion, you can get it, Professor.)
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