Cinema Quarterly (1933 - 1934)

The film industry of the world has never known in its whole history such a meteoric rise as the rise of LONDON FILM PRODUCTIONS. In one year we reached the very forefront of the film industry. In the next year we mean to keep this place, attained for the first time by a British Producing Company. All the world acclaims the films made by LONDON FILM PRODUCTIONS, the Company which made British Films famous the world over and killed the ridiculous belief that no world film can be made in England. Our Trade Mark 'BIG BEN' sounds in every capital of the world! 'HENRY VIII' is acknowledged the world over as one of the greatest films of the past decade. It won a Gold Medal in London as the best film of 1933 ! Voted by four hundred American film critics as one of the best three films shown in U.S.A. Charles Laughion's genius as Henry VIII wins for England for the first time the coveted award of the Academy of Motion Pictures. But our films mean not only artistic triumph. ' HENRY VIII' ran fourteen weeks in London in the Leicester Square Theatre. In Paris it is still showing in its original English version after twenty-four weeks. It ran for weeks in almost every capital city of the world! Berlin ten weeks, still running — Vienna six weeks, still running — Prague four weeks — Budapest seven weeks, still running — Rome three weeks — Milan two weeks — Brussels thirteen weeks, still running — Madrid three weeks — Barcelona two weeks — Copenhagen six weeks — Stockholm five weeks — Oslo two weeks — Riga two weeks — Cairo two weeks — Buenos Ayres four weeks, still running — in New York it has run for five months on Broadway. We have booked this film so far, in the British Isles, to over two thousand theatres, to over two thousand theatres in Germany, to over a thousand theatres in France, LONDON FILM PRODUCTIONS i37