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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1948.
A SEAT IN THE STALLS
SUPPORT FOR BRITAIN'S INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS
By H. H. WOLLENBERG
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RITAIN'S smaller inde- producers have not had a learn what has happened since Mr
neces. Wilson's first pendent film producers, chance to build up the
a
announcement was
now Film
Treasury Guarantee THE Board of Trade wel
who have made many sary working capital. An abade
Although a Bill must-as un- fine pictures in the past, are to normal position had arisen for doubtedly will-be. approved "by be helped by the United King these independent units, which Parliament before the
Finance Corporation can be set in dom Government to overcome have been trying to build up the financial difficulties which their production. There was, in motion, present plans for expansion have cramped their activities fact, a danger of independent are not being held up. since World War II.
production coming to a stop. In order to do this. the
In this emergency Government has announced
the that it will set up
Film Government decided to step in Finance Corporation which will and to make special arrange have at its disposal a sum fix. ments to provide capital. The ed provisionally at £5,000,000, Film Finance Corporation will It will have power to lend that help the film Industry to over money, on reasonable commer. come its handicaps; it will pro clal torms, for film production, vide financial assistance aa was announced in the House enable Britain's national film of Commons by the Minister production effort to go on and concerned, Mr Harold Wilson, expand. President of the Board of Trade, some time ago.
In Public Interest
the agreement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has arranged, nå an interim measure, for a company to be constituted and for finance to be raised by Treasury guarantee of £2,000,000, which will, of course, be part of the £5,000,000,
The necessary preparations to
put in hand by an organising com- directors of the Film Finance Cor- mitteo which will later become the
chairinan poration. The
La Mr James H. Lawrie, at present general manager of Britain's Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation,
in
Film production in Britain WHEN he announced his plan
the House of Commont Mr has been making steady head. Wilson explained that the film way as far as the major groups Industry ៧៥ ету much
are
that
in
Bro
A point of some importance for Alm-goers oversens is the assured fact that there is no question what- ever of the Film Finance Corpora- tion, much Icss tho Government, Gattempting to interfere in the choice nad of subjects for Alms. The inancial provision will be related purely to their entertainment value.
Govern-
He concerned, such as the the public Interest." Rank Organisation, the group phasised
future its around the Associated British been assured by various Picture Corporation, and the ment measures, and mentioned the 45 percent quota, which enables Korda group. However, Britain's film Industry to produce
quarters responsible
are for a safe and assured home mar anxious to mobilise the smaller ket." Independent production units,
too.
The effects of this policy, however,
not will certainly
bo restricted After the dislocation caused to the home market in Britain, and the many friends of the British alm by the war most independent all over the world will be glad to
Clever Tricks That
Don't Come Off
1
By STEPHEN WATTS
IT is my firm belief that technique, like Technicolour, is at its best when you don't notice it. Who is going.to
made "Rope" be aware that Alfred Hitchcock ten-minute-long stretches without the customary inter- cutting?
All you are going to care
about, I suggest, is whether you like "Rope," and to blazes with the technical whys.
You are, of course, going to be aware of something. The action is continuous. An hour and a half in the lives of the characters: is shown In an hour and a half of film.
The whole play (I wrote the word without premeditation And it is significant) takes place In onc room..
The camera glides and probes un- ceasingly about the place and the people. It never lets up. I found its sinuous progression effective for a while, then rather tiring. The space- limitations began to induce claustro- phobia.
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HITCHCOCK no doubt enjoyed the
tricky technical exercise and mastering of problems. It is not a satisfaction, you, and I can fully share.
I'm sure no enjoyed, too, the per- verse, nerve-twanging plot the two odd young men giving a party with buffet-service from a chest in. which les the body of their friend whom they have killed for the fun of it, in pursuance of some murky theory. 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. that superior persons have the right
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The best thing in the picture la the acting, especially of John Dall subtly as the stronger and more maniacal-of the murderers. James Stowart is immensely effectivo, as the schoolmaster who works it all out, and Farley Granger, as the weak young man, is the only character to touch the emotions.
BOW TO THE CENSOR MOST of The Voice of the Turtle" A takes place in one room, too, but this is not technique. Just the fact that the film is made from a play, and sticks closely to the orl- ginal except for one demure bow in the direction of the censor.
It is a pleasant comedy, most pleasantly played by Eleanor Parker and Ronald Reagan, about a room- lesa G.I. on weekend leave
who spends the night on a young actress's spare bed and stays to fall in love. This simplicity is filled out to some stature by Miss Parker, who makes the in-love-with-love girl quito enchantingly fey and silly, a natural for "Mary Rose."
If I say. I enjoyed "The Time of
Your Life," "please don't lake, that as necessarily a recommendation.
It is bravo' of James Cagney to film a William Saroyan play, for the fanciful Armenian's dramatic caper- cutting la queer stuff to offer a uni~ versal audience.
Into a San Francisco bar-room. where William Bendix, dispenses beer and charity and Cagney als drinking champagiso and watching the world go by, comes an odd-as- sortment of aspiring humans
can't make comedian-dancer who anybody laugh (beautifully danced hy Paul Draper), a prostitute who dreams of a past she never had, a Buffalo Bill character who cadges drinks and tells lally tales and
Baroyan is, woolly spirited, crazy, deventive touching, and curiously streakdd-south poetry, I can take a freak Alm like this very happily once in a while. “y
in
Digger, The
Platypus
TWO
in
cartoon characters, Digger the Platypus und Dinkum the Girl Platypus, will Mt represent Australia Bank's new film series,
Both Digger and Dinkum wif appear in cartoons to be shown soon in London.
Other creatures of Rack's animal land: Boke the Parrot, the Chester the Cat, Zimber
There are-apart from the Alm finance scheme other indications of serious interest in promoting Inde- pendent film production.
The United Kingdom Govern- meat's committee of inquiry into the possibility of state-owned studios as means of increasing output in
Investigations. Britain has started
Members of the committee have visited several studios and held a number of meetings.
a
On its report to the Board of Trade largely depends whether the Government will or will not go into the studio business. Whatever the final decision, this investigation tends to show that all possibilities of strengthening independent produc- tion are being carefully examined in London.
Producer's Views HOWEVER, what has the United
Kingdom independent Alm·pro- ducer himself to say?
Anthony Havelock-Allan, a
dis.. Linguished producer who has recent Jy turned to independent picture making, answered this question for me. His name, as producer, is con- nected with a number of outstanding International
successering such films as "In Which We "Blithe Spirit." "Brief Encounter," and "Great Expectations."
Sir
He has just completed his first Sinall "Independent" aim, "This Voice, made by his own company, Constellation Films Limited. Fl enhanced by reputation has been his appointment as one of the three Producer
members
(with Alexander Korda and Mr. J. Arthur Rank) of the Cinematograph Films Council sot up under the Film Act, He is also one of the five producer members of the National Film Pro- duction Counelt sut up and presided over by the President of the Board of Trade.
Mr Havelock-Allan emphasised his ballet in independent film making and in the Invaluable contribution to the independent producer hnd make to the International cinema He called Indivi- programme.
and duality, personal enthusiasm,
in his faith
work the decisive human factors in the Independent producer's effort, as against mass- production methods: super-
Llon, Dusty the Mole, and Wanda Waddle the Duck.
got
David Hand, former visor for Walt Disney in Holly- wood, created this film zOD.
It has taken three years to studios* Hank's cartoon
Cookham, established at Buckinghamshire, but a steady. supply of these British sartoons is now becoming available all aver the world
The Bank organisation is also marketing commercial products, including greeting cards, story- books, puzzles, balloons, and games, in confanétion with the cartoon creatures.
He thought that the Film Flantico- Corporation, combined with the new 45 percent quota of screen time for United Kingdom films, would be n great incentive,
"The incentive will work," he added. There is a betler future for independent producers in this country than there has ever been.
distin- This opinion, voleed by n guished ilm expert, tends to con- Arm Mr Harold Wilson's recent re- mark in the House of Commons, that the United Kingdom film in- dustry could "look forward to long period of prosperity."
GREGORY PECK and Dorothy Moduire, wie "star. in "Gentleman's Agreement," him dealing with Ameriban Anti-SemiUmm, showing at the King's tonight."" Pook, ča writer doing a series of articles on anti-Jowish feeling, posca" as a "Jew, and, alded by John Garfield) who kives amalara performance, sa persecuted Jewish boy geld to the ballon of his subject. Dorothy Moduire has lend pleasant role--that organ ordinary gentile girl who DEKRET
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