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WHAT FILMS COULD DO FOR BRITAIN.

[Br J. D. Wiz One of the leading figurer in the film industry in America] Eleven years of my business life were spent in Canada and Australia, and no one realises more than I that Great Britain needs British motion pictures as much as America needs American one

It seems strange to me, as an Ameri- can, that 60 per cent of the films shown in the British Empire are American, If of Great Britain the business en

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5гн. 1925

LONDON'S ROMANCE- IN

FIGURES. VALUE OF BRICKS AND MORTARS. THE CITY'S INDEBTEDNESS. All the human romance of London has boen tabulated and reduced to Agures in a wonderful book just issued by the London County Council, called Leadon Statistic

City Corporation is, however, the most favourably. placed of all, municipal bodies. The income of the City—just a amall square mile in size is no less than Amount only £2,313,518, of which

The £1,288,844 comes from the 'rates. Court of Common Council, who rule the City, are the richest local governora in the wide world,

Although Londoners pay such fabulous Amounts in rates, they still owe a great deal of money. The total debt of Lon. dan is no less than £122,999,798-fairly substantial owings"

The whole life bistory of the world's greatest city, with a population of nearly 9,000,000 souls, is recounted bed. The annual income tween the blue covers of this volume of 450 pages.

The generosity of London is unbound- of Landou charities excode £14,300,000, and of this amount nearly £13,000,000 is distributed. The largest payment from charity is for Astonishing figures are given concern-

medical relief- £1,935,000. The blind motioning the bricks and mortar value of Lon-tective from voluntary contributions

don and what the public services of the

£403,791. mammoth capital cost. All the houses, offices, and public buildings in London are worth £82,323,897.

realised the importance of pictures as well as American business men do I am sure they would organise a great effort to build up the motion picture industry.

REVENUE

A new life is born in London County every three minutes of every 24 hours but of the babies more than 10,000 die before they reach the age of one year. The The couplete administration of Lop: marriages of London exceed 39,000 in a The following extract from, a well-don, county and municipal, with all

widowers. Most London men marry be- known American trade paper shows what subsidiary services, costs no less than year, and of the bridegrooms 3,500 aro vital importance Americans attach to the 40,000,000 a year." The London Countytween the ages of 21 and 30 and most Council has the greatest revenue,

London girls before they are 25... £13,000,000, raised by county rate.

STREET MILEAGE.

hims as a trade factor :---

In the remote regions of Africa, South America, the Far and Near Last, and the frozen North, millions American motor- who never wan car, au American borne or any of our everyday necessities, "are familiar with these things through the medium of the silent drama.

They do not know our language, but our ways and mode of life are con- them. That is why stantly before pictures made in the United States are the greatest trade missionaries, creating good will for American goods and laying the groundwork for in- erenses in industrial exports.

As an international salesman, motion pictures rank as America's greatest. People in far-off lands enjoy American motion Convenience because our pictures were the catalogues that sold them. They saw our products on the screen, visualised them in the atmos phere of their own communities, and importers were quick to meet the demand. Many American exporters look upon motion pictures as their most efficient trade envoys.

Substitute Britain and “British "*" for Amerion" and "American" and you will realise what the motion picture i hould mean le the British Empire's trade.

POOR ORGANISATION!

Every business man in the world knows that Creat Britain is more dependent than America on her export and import trade, and it should be obvious that motion pictures are even more essential to her welfare..

Some eighteen months ago I attended a luncheon of the British film trade in London and there heard wonderful spreches on the subject by the Prince of Wales, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald (then, Prime Minister); Lord Burnham, and others. 11 only 10 per celt, of what they then saju sere tree, items strange to me that the industrial leaders of this

not yet awakened country have the vital necessity of this fascinating business which is doing so much for the enlightenment, entertainment, and pro- gress of mankind.

to

All over the world the mark Made in England is regarded as a sign of quality that is supreme in many things. Few Americans of standing think of having aaything but English cloth for their clothes. Sheffield cutlery is the standard of excellrace, as the British car is the high-water mark of quality the world-

over.

Unfortunately for Britain, this has not been the case with her motion pictures. It is not because you have not the material or the men; not because the frequently blamed climate is a handicap, not because for indeed, it is not; you have not the actors or the stories/ It is almost entirely beanse no one has for lempted to organine what

is, perkant, the most techuical business in the world on a sound and sufficiently large and stable basis.

cent, of "It is a fact that about 90 per American-made fims are produced under artificial light Consquently climatic conditions no longer affect production.

GOOD PICTURES WANTED. There are many British actors, direc tors, seruarib writers, technical experts camera mix, and others at present work- ing in America who could be induced to come back bome if proper and per manent facilities existed here for the making British motion pictures. And there are many others right here now who only need the opportunity to deve lop into as capable workers as these

: found anywhere.

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The motion picture does not belong to Boy one nation. The French and Italians were the first to show us how to make motion picturea, I think the first really big picture success in America an Italian picture "Quo Vadis 1 "Du Barry," renamed" Passion," which was an enormous success in America, Was a German-made picture of a French story. But up to the present time there has been no outstanding British picture. (Continued on next Column).

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The American public, despite rumours to the contrary, are always looking for good pictures from any country. There ara 18,000 exhibitors of films in the Caited States, the majority of whors would be glad to show really Erst-rate British pictures. When such pictures are made here they will be just as success- ful in America as those made in Holly- wood.

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When the right British leader appears with an instinct and a passion for do ing big things in a big way, he will certainly have the co-operation of every- one interested in this problem-the Gav- ernment, the newspapers, the great in- dustries, and the struggling motion picture industry itself. It is a big job. which needs a man of vision-the sort of commercial vision which made it possible to establish The Daily Mail, and build the greatest newspaper business in the warld; the type of national vision, by which Mr. Lloyd George Jed Great Britain to victory in the greatest war in history...

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The length of London streets is 2,210 miles They cost £9,824,000 a year in maintenance.

Telephone lines in the county stretch for 1,479,480 miles, and the number of calls in a year at the London ex changes is more than 803,000,000..

There are no fewer than 5,383 public, houses in London, or our for every 800 persons, The City of London, with 368 public houses has one for every eighty residents within the square

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A census of vehicles taken at Hyde Park Corner during twelve hours on a fine July day gave the following re sult Motor-cars 49,434, horned vehicles 3,533, cycles 1,577, motor-cycles 500, and barrows 352.. F1

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