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BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY CRISIS AT HAND: NEW

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RULING WANTED .

f the British film industry going to die for the second time?" With millions of dollars' worth of frozen credits at its disposal. with a market as wide as the Americas to sell in, is it going to be whitled away, as it was in the last was, for want of an or- ganised Government policy and adequate. Government protec-

tloo"

This is a serious question, which cannot be blinked, writes the fim correspondent of the Sunday Ob

server.

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(tricting the employment of women to such jobs. Out of these 100-150 men each laboratory has already lost something like 50.

BIG CHESS

UPSET

The biggest upset of the Colony Junior Chess Championship oc- curred yesterday evening when J. H. D'ALMEIDA surprisingly beat UN KWAI-YUNG, one of the three leading contenders for the Championship.

D'Almeida had the better of the middle game and pressed pawns.

E M. Petrove played two of his games, losing in the first to Birluk-

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1941.

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GRADUAL DRAIN

If the British film industry is to A. Kurrik beat R. C. Gardner ned for persons, other than the addressee. With the revision ut reserved be regarded as a hurury, all this is another game. "Eariter in the occupations the need to study as it should be. What both the week two other tles were played. becomes even mor imperious studios and the laboratories re-Kolatchoff winning from J. Tausz Because the altuation on the sur. quire is a Government ruling. In and Gardner from d'Almeida. face Looks good, because our Germany the film trade is regard- Standings to date:—A, Ÿ", Burluk- straatos are full, the Americaned as an essential part of the war off 14 pts., A. Kurrik 6), Uni Kwal- companies have money to spend, effort. Studio and laboratory tech-yung 6. To Yu-lau. J. Tausz, R. C. and the British companies have nicians are reserved. Propaganda Danenberg and J. Grefalda 5 each. long and promising programmes, tums sent out from Germany to VV. Kolatchoff 4, E. M. Petrove there is a tendency to overionk the neutral countries are first-class 34. W. Lee 3. R. C. Gardner and manpower and technical stuff, with what might | J. E. d'Almeida 1 each. A. Morton

be described as a pre-war Ura.. finish

gradual drain on

resource

"Just a studio Boor taken, just a technician, just a laboratory ex- pert, just an actor here and there, doesn't seem to matter. That was what killed the industry in 1914-

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SMALL INCIDENT

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دارد

SENIOR TOURNAMENT Playing off another of the post- WORTH NOTICE

the... Colony Does the British Government poned games from expect the same effort from the Open Championship. C. M. Sequeira British film industry? Does it rely beat K. Weiss..

on the British film as a medium

of propaganda? From the com-

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A small incident happened re-ments made in the House trom Why less? On a conservative eat- cently, small but significant.. Atime to time on the work of the mate, the work could be done with major production, working on Ministry of Information film sec-a crew of 100 skilled men per film with wide Anglo-Americaution it would seem that it does. picture. Add to these 500 essential Air Mall by "Pan American Airways Direct Ser- propaganda appeal, was held up It is perhaps worth noticing that laboratory workers. 1,500 men, in for severs! hours for want of 1,000 copies of the M.O.I shorts all reserved as specialists 1,500 skilled make-up men for a crowd pass through the main laboratories men to keep an industry living. scene. A rush call was sent out each week. Such feature films as Young, and youngish men, .It to all the other studios, and the 49th Paralle also have the must be admitted. You can always 20 or so make-up experts still leit M.O.I seal of approval. But revert to the older man, it is true. In this country were rounded up these films are to be made, effec- but then you go back to the older But those several hours meant tively, the Government has got to technique against modern compe-. several thousand pounds wastea." reserve a skilled nucleus of man- titors-1,500 men to save an in-

This is not an isolated instance. power,

dustry. It is for the Government CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE to say definitely, and quickly. At the moment, the studio space whether the goodwill, influence. and work. It must be remembered. is such that it would be possible and profit of the British cinema is designed for export-through short- age of essential man-power.

In every department of the studios

you hear cases of work delayed-

MAJOR COMPANIES

There are three major companies at the moment reway to go on the Door with a script, but ucable to find a male star important enough to justify production. "Sound de- partments and

undits art working on a skeleton staff. Mas- ter carpenters and plasterers - aru worth their weight in gold.

camera

There is even a minor crisis in the hairdressing department, where there is a "bottle-neck" in the pro- duction of hair-laçe. Hair-lace is that part of a film wig which pulla down over the forehead.

Hitherto, it seems, it has largely been imported from the Balkans. Now the studios huve to walt their

Kere

LABOKATORIES AFFECTED

to make nine pictures simultane- worth the lass, fo the fighting ser- ously in this country. Not more, vices, of 1,500 men,

Is Trial By Jury Fair?

BY R. M. JACKSON, LLD.

The middle-class man or woman who carefully avoids litiga- ttoo, and who never comthits a summary oflance, not even with a bicycle or a motor car, and who is in fact a model citizen, may nevertheless find that contact with the courts cannot be avoided: jury service is compulsory

The Juries Act 1922 abolished "striking" (except under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act. 1845), and this method of select. ing jurors of the most convenient politics is now a thing of the What are past. Today it will depend on the lot of the draw. the chances?

Under the Juries Act 1922 the ous

burden

upon working-class turn on a single source of supply Jurors' Book is made up by placing people, unless we reversed our an- marks in the list of electors against cient habits and paid jurors for and loss of time, and the names of those who are quali-expenses Possibly the most serious concerned as jurors, for common miraculously ensured that absence is the problem of the film labors-jurors and "SJ" for special jurors. for jury service should never lead

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WAR CUP WILL STOP PRESS

BE DEFENSIVE

BATTLE

LONDON, May 8 (Heuter)-It is

tortes. There are four majon

to dismissal by an employer. A Jury service is thus contined to laboratories in this country, plus a

general liability for Jury service handful of smaller outfits. These the middle and upper classes. firms handle something like 5,000,- i It is only by some stretch or might, politically at least, be 000 feet of flim per week. Forty imagination that a working-class wise step in a country that pro-anticipated that the War Cup will per cent. of the total printing is prisoner can be said to be tried claims equality before the law.

be a defensive battle, with thou- BROADENING OUTLOOK -"sanda secretly hoping for a draw. for the Ministry of Information, o by twelve representatives of his

Further, if we are to believe The Cup tournament. has for what is known as "visual in-countrymen.

struction" for the fighting services, The views and prejudices of those who tell us that jury service proved a real money-spinner and

How to go through a wood with jurors are more apt to be those of is good for the jurors, broadening the salvation to some clubs, whose tanks. How to clean an ignition the wealthier classes than those their outlook and up-lifting them share in the profits is estimated plug. These films are designed to of the poorer classes. This is most by allowing them to share in the at £10,000.

dispensing of iustice, and that the PRESTON, with six of the 1938 shorten the time of training for apparent with special jurore.

the law is refreshed cup-winning team available and a

the ul-majority of them able to train to

the troops by several weeks.) The If a manufacturer and a trade stale air of rest covers stadio printing, includ-union engage in litigation in which by contributions from ing "lavenders" for Americe, and there is Jury trial, the manufar-cloistered life of jurors, it is surely gether thrice weekly, have the ad- the production of all prints for turer would probably ask for a little unfair to keep the lesser vantage over ARSENAL in which any share in eight are servicemen, who are un- instructional and entertainment special fury, hoping, perhaps act rate-payers from

these good things.

able to practice together, in vatn, that the merchants,

Nevertheless, Arsenal's sound, SKILLED HANDS

bankers and wealthier persons on An alternative course is to alter

the qualifications of jurors. stil rocklike, defence should manage to This sort of work demands skill the special. Jury

hold

The hold Preston's clever and thrustful ed hands.

A single mistake in "sound" (Le., manufacturers') views keeping some qualification.

objectionable feature is the domin-attack. printing a positive costs £5. A about trade unions. single mistake in printing a nega-

showing in this country.

would

Glasgow Rangers, Scottish cham- juries are to be representative ance of the property qualification.

We ought at least to widen the plons for the third successive tive may cost anything up to £400. It will be necessary to make the basis, on some scheme that would year, and who lost only one match The minimum running staff of one qualifications for jurors the sunle of these major laboratories, cutting as for the parliamentary franchise, include non-propertied people who this season, are expected to beat are interested in the public wel- Heart of Midlothian at Hampden out night crews, may be 100 to 150 or perhaps the local government

fare

Park to retain the Scottish Cup. men There are certain rules res- franchise This would be a griev

Japan's Economy Unfit For Fresh Adventures

Japan is showing signs of economic weariness just when her lea- ders are contemplating fresh adventures, wrote the flöancial editór of the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN after a detalled analysis of Japan's industrial and economic conditions.

One curious point that may give trouble, some day is the method of selecting, the panel and the

aggrieved can challenge the "array." Jury. The number of the panel is

The fairness or otherwise of the not fixed, but depends on the

be considered panel can

before amount of work before the court: hand, ainee the names (with occu- the number commonly varies from pations and addressen) BTB OF- thirty-six to sixty," but as many as

this

300 have been summoned. The ranged alphabetically, and

Mst must be available for at least panel is summoned by the sheriff,

seven days before the sitting of which in practice means the under the court. In practice, challenges sheria or deputy.

No rules govern the selection of

are very rare.

In civil cases the trial juries are Japan's industrial production, he | official figures indicate. Many names. In some areas tradition

that the sheriff shall called from the panel by balloting, pointed out, had expanded up till necessities were frequently unob- dictates 1830 by 20 per cent but afterwards tainable or of inferior quality if follow some method. Thus in Lon- but in criminal cases they are customary it has not increased. For the last obtainable. This applies even to don the method has been to take called in the manner two years the output of munitions į rice, the staple food.

two districts, geographically apart in that court, balloting (as at the being a frequent "has been increased only at the cost The output of heavy industry such as Hampstead and Wands-Old Balley)

panel, and bring the calling of of severe reduction in civilian sup- which inchides war products was/worth, and make up the panel by method.

Next time we alter our fury law criminal juries into line with civil plies. As a result, there was a set-smaller in 1940 than 1939, Espe-taking names alphabetically from ous decline in the workers' stand-clally noted is the fact that the ch

district," "working through it might be wise to establish an cases by making balloting the only ard of living so that the produc-shrinkage of arms output began each list until it is exhausted automatic method of selecting the method-Japan Chronicle).

before any serious obstacles have some areas the pane!" has been Omelay statistics suggest that the been imposed on Japanese Imports described as being selected "at real wages have been fairly well by the United States (Central random maintained but rise in retail pr-Newa). ces have been much greater than?

tivity of labour suffered,

The theory is that if a preju-

diced panel is selected, the party

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