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THE BRITISH FILM 45
English inventor allowed to go to Hollywood, where he has made a fortune for himself and caused a revolution in production methods?
It will at once be said that this type of production mind is no different from that governing the American industry. But this is not so. The American executives may be crude and possibly vulgar, but they have at least this merit — they possess the faculty for employing talent and are not afraid of doing so. Men like Samuel Goldwyn and Carl Laemmle probably know little about actual details of production work, but they have the intelligence to engage people who know something about films, and they will pay them adequately for their knowledge. That is precisely what the British producer will not do.
I am not saying that good films will never be made in England. They can and will be made — but not until a drastic reorganization has taken place. I plead for a clean sweep of the production-executives in British studios, and ask that all the pettifogging supervisors shall be replaced by men and women who are willing to think and work in terms of motion pictures as well as for their personal gain. This is at heart our chief trouble — our producers, directors and scenario-editors cannot visualize as the Americans can from an entertainment point of view.
Disgusted with the attitude of the British theatrical studios, young men in England whose interests lie in the field of the cinema have turned elsewhere for support. They are utilizing their ideas in the production of propaganda films for various concerns, where they are free to pursue their own theories of advanced