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AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
April, 1926
Facts on Eiffel Tower Film
Incident Given by Hatrick
Through the skill of an International "Newsreel cinematographer, pictures were obtained in Paris of Leon Callot's ill-starred attempt to fly through the Eiffel Tower, the feat having resulted in the death of the intrepid aviator. The complications, which subsequently developed through the withholding of the negative, are clarified, insofar as the American company is concerned, by the statement issued by Edgar B. Hatrick, general manager of the International Newsreel Corporation. Hatrick's statement follows:
"The motion pictures of Lieut. Callot's flight through the Eiffel Tower were shipped to us by our French agents via the purser of the S. S. La France. When the France was at sea the newspapers published reports that the film was to be seized by the Captain on orders of, presumably, the French Government.
"When the France docked the International Newsreel Corporation made formal demand for the film. This was met with a denial by French Line officials that the film was on board the ship. A representative of the International Newsreel, however, had already examined the ship's manifest and confirmed thereon the fact that the film was aboard the France.
"The writ of replevin resulted. The International Newsreel Corporation does not know that the French Government wishes to suppress the film for sentimental or any other reasons. The International Newsreel Corporation has received no request from the French Government to suppress the film. It only knows that the captain of a French steamship has seized motion picture film which is the property of the International Newsreel. It proposes to recover its property.
"If the film, on being recovered by the International, should prove to be objectionable, and therefore unfit to show to the American public, it will not be released. If the French Government wishes the film suppressed for sentimental reasons, the International Newsreel will give the utmost consideration to any such request, but up to the present time the International Newsreel has not heard from the French Government.
"The International Newsreel is in the position of objecting to the high-handed methods of the French steamship captain — the unwarranted seizure of private property. It has asked the United States Court for aid in the recovery of its own property."
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