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John Prebble
"Governor Falkland Islands to Colonial Omce. London: BISCOE ARRIVED, CLEARED BASE D FEBRUARY 4,, PARTY ALL WELL.".
have IVE 1230211
come back from the last fron- tier of the world, The ninsula of Graham Land curls round the Weddell Sen like aenarled arm, of which Hope Bay is the hand.
hand which,
- til Vivendly. hal Benga
fave org
It
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for flagget madtingala
asp on Antoretien.
Members of the British" An-
mofles
Elliott,
FILM INDUSTRY FACES A CRISIS
LONDON.
7YING for front-page
By
space with the Cold CHARLES
War and Budget esti-
mates is the British film in. WINTOUR [dustry. Each day some 'new
item of gloom splashes its
way
But before we shed too many tears for the poor film produ cer, let's see what he is doing to help himself.
It has now become axiomatic that only tros that cost about £125,000 stand any reasonable chance of allowing a proßt in the hame marke
into the headlines.. IT is, of course, arguable that the forelin market for Br!- tish plelures has not yet been effectively exploited, but anyone How, then, enn flm budgets who has witnessed the frigid re- I be pruned from £200,000
Budget Pruning
Stars' wages to be cut! Studios close down! Film: workers sacked!
But do all these gloomy ex- ception in the United States of to this lower figure with no at-
the most of our lims realises that tendant loss in quailty?
clumnation marka presage
vation
the
cloom of the British einemu? this is at best an elusive and I suggest that the follow- No. They do not,
extremely speculative hope.
ing people co-operated in Despite all the shaking hendя
we are to rely chiefly following way cheaper pictures in Wridour Street, you can rest on the home and Empire market could be made, and
If then w
that you will be reviving for the bulk of the inseto
the financial of fork- returns an our pletures,
consequent need for disciplined your regulai
the
l thinking and woods. Grangers,
careful ones dustry must make two drastle would probably make them bel- Simmonses
planning et et for a long time to come, moves to set its own house in 'ter as well.
For in the first plate the order. First, a larger percen-. film industry is financially in tame
Producers.-If A producer of the box-office returns Ils must reach the very big business class.
the producer,
beyond his budget with- a reasonable excuse - gross annual receipts are about second, pictures must be made
£108,000,000, and the entertain at less cost.
should be sent packing to some Now before the producer re afford
other industry where they can ceives any share of your admis- Studio overheads must be
Inefficient planners. sion ticket three huge slices of t cuced, which
ment tax alone vields £39,000,- 1000.
No Government is likely to allow such a lucrative source
of revenue to evaporate,
In the second place, the,con-
film industry has now become a matter national pride.
Artistic Prostige'
WHATEVER we may think of
minny dubious
аде
spends
and out
re-
means that rich -
divided between the Gov excentives with blonter salaries
particular
tinued existence of the British rnment, the, digiributors and must realise that the golien-egr
the exhibitors. At the present daying days are over. moment there là n, grent deal of
Directors. Each day's shoot- pressure being exerted upon Mr Harold Wilson to Have the must be nulnately planned Government give up part of its and severe penalties, shoul£ he before studio space is occurfed, silce.
incurred for extravagant blum- Yo curiously enough the
hours, A director on a small salary and.
might well have the *ncentive needed to curtail valuable time
Actors,Chlumpagne
fchurned out by our studies entertainment tax is not a tax ders entailing wasted sets and
there is little doubt that pictures on the film industry but a tax on like Horny V. Hamlet the public. You pay that tax in
Great Expectations" and the form of higher admission receiving a share of the profits
are
folliers have brought this country prices, and If that tax is re-
artistic prestige which ennnot be duced then It
It should come back mensured in tevens of dollars or to the public in the form of re- ctory studies. drinks
duced prices for seats
out of golden slippers Any refund in the industry of we procecil on the
out of fashifon, my talented that our film in the present tax would merely out
ones. And the threat that dustry is here to stay, what has mean that an indirect method Hollywood.may pay more money brought about the current has been found or raising the is also beginning to sound very
Jf, then, assumption
phase of walling and breast cost lo the public of cinema beating? The sad truth seems entertainment,
What Sacrifices?
to the that with all pir
emphasis on the book-keeping side of the business the fum EHERE
1.css men.
picture
During winter months, when darkness and coal haipureit activity, there was always work Indoors. Sledge Harness har do bad
is that is gout i patte
or repaired, reports box-office the industry Bled in the instruments main-achieved the double feat tid.
manking had pietures and losing seifferinoney at them as well, down. Eliot and lus men fount time for relaxation.
When the
roudite
The Statistics
of
11
1
reasonable ease the
thai
hollow. You can count on the Angers of one hand the British- stars Hollywood is panting to have and still play chopsticks on
fre left. Actors must stop floating about on salaries astro- nomically f xe d between £ 10.003 to
£30,000 and come
writer
to earth,
syriters
Script
makers have proved themselves for such a refund of tax it one with the Angers that to be extraordinarily bad bus- the industry could show
every reasonable step had been Since the usual excuse for taken to meet the current
o economie problem and that
was insuficient to make Alm producing a
aprontable
be hired because of the should But bas
that
work he does and not the name been done? cursary examination will show he has. Six writero on a script that it has not. It will also don't necessarily make a Aim show that insufficiency and sel- six times better. And a
£25 That Aryat, undefeatable soul
still play too large a short story isn't worth £5,000 when is isolated Eyen;, on
man is quickly to reading THE reason why City Tinan- S
elers slither in and out of the part in the film industry.
because it is being turned into What sacrifices, for instance, celiulold, the haul sledging parties men Industry willi such amazing
the
distri- tark books with them.
regularity is painfully evident are exhibitors and
Alm-making.
The met live? ་ penguins came to Hope Bay, like associated
theim My with
who awn the picture Brother Jonathan."
palaces TRADE UNIONS.-Restrictive human colony in fanlustic
practices and feather- evening dress.
Although it cost £108,000 to take 39 percent of the gross re
stopped. Go produce and took in £1,041,000 ceipts and the men who pedille bedding must be л
Into any studio and you nt the
box-office-the second the films from cinema to cinema
20 percent.
scarcely push your way through highest British carner last year like about
I have seen no —ils. producers had still lost
suggestions the throng of chiet electricians, £0.000 in the home market, anywhere that this kind of fin- electricians and sub-cfcclriciars
Where did the rest of the anctal bleeding should be each holding one lanp,
And The Government stemmed.
yet without- Jealous guarding of individual money go?
touk
to
unnistessary £310,000, the exhibitors lims there would be no exhibi- trades tearing £375,000 and
costs must be curtailed. As in 1 distributors tors or distributors. £57,000.
other Industries, the film trade In other words, one of
unions must learn that
DASE
CAMP
(1
WEDDELL ËÁ
laretica Survey, marmmed for weeks at a time, during which,
1. ch at Case
now they
sat beneath the CATVIE ued by the relief ship John waiting for the wind and snow Biane, then gies should be to end. wax mbered:
The wind forced the tenty . k. Caplom
the deeper into the snow..
Bu a Route! Derior W. J 1. Sladen. Primus stove, within five Role: 1. Jefford, sur minutes could have the tent John O'lane. ral worm enough, focis two of: dog-team cupants to discard their outer murcolor and the hver. S. McNeile,
elothing
Billett's
blizzard little
band.. was then, was landed compressed 2 Hope Bay over a year ago, it the
When ve t
Cam
A simple duty To stand upright against the
impossible, the lungs, closed eyes, and blew a greit bad simple duty--to make. cloud of snow like smoke into
seething sea. The dogs lived through outshic in the what, curled into tight circles, with their paws to- gether and tails brought forward over their nutzzles.
Was
1
it.
un trorologies reports,
ther surveys, expeditions ints the interior.
They recorded wind strengths and direction, the humility of ti elint. Day after day they. observed and noted the quixG- tie and terrible movements of Wark sex and white ice.
Four times a day their radio was contact with Port Stap- ly in the Falklands.
Sometimes the curtain drop
ped down and brake contact, Then they were as truly alone
Seult had been
There were no ships to bridg from letters, but unless the curtain had fallen a telegram, Sent from the base at night, would be on relative's table in England the next day,
Toughest at 45
Elliott
and his men
lb. butter daily
Elliott's men carried ennagh fabel on these trips to themselves going, but no more.
krep
Their largest item of food was butter, its high fat content giv ing them heat and energy.
ta
Their ration worked out nearly half a pound a day each. and they ate it with everything,
Breakfust
taken on the march, was one or
In the summer thousands of when one looks at the statistics butors making to keep British Another Story
was
The pity lived. against blinding landscape which sometimes white, But more often a palette of pastel shades. Sunless Days
The sunless days were grey. the lichen on the exposed rocks black, orange, and green,
Above all there was silence. for being alone in it
the
Now Axiomatic
can
того
A silence all the more terrible most popular British Alms was THE - equanimity-with--which production means more employ-
table, under present conditions,
would
""ment "and"more"wages," And when it was broken it to make a profit, in the country, one branch of the industry Thus co-operation, good sense was by the shaking roar of the And yet our studios continue watches its progeny being and small snerillees all round. ice-face, carving into the sea. blissfully to spend £200,000 or throttled is understandable when could save the British film in- One' day last November fre more on pictures when the it is realised that the exhibitors dustry. But before everybody destroyed the hut. In the flames bald statistica show
distributors they stand and
still becomes too absorbed in all this died Lieutenant Oliver Burd, very little chance of getting make money if there were no
compileated accountancy meteorologist, and his assistant, that money back. What other British aims at all—that is if the might be good idea if someone Michael Green.
thought to business enterprise would con- Government abolished the pre- pave They lie in the southern lee tinute to manufacture an article sent quota systern and permitted problem of making good which holds Scott and Shackle-which cost more than the pubile them to show as many American sures as well as cheap ones. ton
was willing to spend?
Als as they liked, By the end of last year con-
ditions #1} Hope Bay grew
serious.
Fuet was running low.
Their radio told them that relief was on the way. They walled for it patiently, living in the lents that were their only habitation now the hut had gone. Four days' gale
the
DOC
The
more
I
some
But that is another story.
with 877
17 2 1
children
in 1903, had sextuplets, five boys and one girl. Afth confinement.
It was her
the pic-
years, had 13 sets of twins and six sels of triplets: a total of 4 children.
Her sisters had 41 babies respectively.
and 20
The second wife had triplets
OCTORS making a study of multiple births have dis- covered that in Ireland and Six times the radio told them Russia twin, births are that the John Biscoe had failed common than in France. on these sledging to pass the Bransfield Straits. parties consisted of porridge, Then, as it luy close-anchored They now know, as a result of
Ar the first she had one baby. dried milk, sugar, cocoa, and one at Deception Island, in the South statistics collected from 21 coun.
A Russian peasant. Waslief, twins at The second quad- married, twice, had by his two of three daily biscuits.
Shetlands, a four days' gale blew tries, and based on a study of ruplets at the third, und triplets wives 87 children. The arst Lunch, which was generally the pack-ice nway to the north. 121 million births, that
at the fourth. She thus had 10 wife had four indigo
quadruplets. straits lay ah
Twins DCCIT
*5.2 children in five confinements. An once
seven triplets, and 16 sets of two biscuits, a two-ounce bar of channel of clear water.
twins. chocolate, and orange juice.
Jolin The
Discoe went through cases,
"An, Italian woman is recordon "Triplets occur once in 7,628.7 as having given birth to 20 on twice and twins six times. and, as the The evening meat was cooked
sea-ice began to in the tent over the Primus. It form in the bay, it dropped cases,
In two conßrements the first Quadruplets was generally a tough stew of anchor and took off the five men.
time nine, the second time 11.
In 1753 Russian: Kirilow, Boatloads of between, 20 and 30 pemmican, pea-flour,
exelted oatmeal,
dogs 679.734 cores.
was presented to the Empress Quintuplets went shipwards. Birdcages and can live the life down there and the rest of the biscuits.
The marriage of twins In- Cathering. It is recorded that and like it.
Back at the base in Hope Bay stern of the Biscoe, ·
huskies were lied from prow to $1,000,000 corps..
creases the likelihood of twinshe had 72 children by two conditions were naturally easier.
Giving this information in the
A father, as well as mother, wives. To begin with, there was
twinning. the Medical World, Mr Leslie W. can be responsible for
Then there is the famous case hut, with its bunk-room, kit. deserted outpost were the slen- tefferman, F.R.C.S., adds that A womari who invariably had of the Parisian named Blunel, chen, office, and workshop, der stems of the radlo masts, 48 bases of quintuplets have twins married a second time on whose wife had seven sets of after the other. Every morning at Hope Bay the chimney-stack of the burnt--been recorded in medical his the death of her husband (who triplets one
was himself AT 2.30, 5.20, interior, blizzards hit Elliott's the party rose soon after seven, out hit, and, high on Meteoro-lory.
twin), and after Her servant. girl also had trip- men suddenly and ruthlessly. breakfasted at eight, and then, gical HI, two lonely, crosses,
that had only single bables, lets, of which the husband was marked ften and tents
On the graves: they
A There is a case on record of a were nailed to began a working day that lasted
doctor,
Mary the father! the ice for as much 18
well toward midnight. two
were left wreaths of evergreen. Negress on the Gold Cons who. Austin, who was married for 33
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