The Film Daily (1936)

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DAILY CHINESE EDUCATIONAL FILM SWEEP WATCHED Nanking— Commercial film inter. .tching the fast-growng interest in so-called educational res in China. By mid-Novemx>r. 100 such films, 100 foreign-made »nd the others produced domostical. ill be ready for national dis:ribution. D mestic pictures will he made by the Central Studio at Nanking, a Government institution, and by the 1 College of Science of the University of Nanking. The themes of these pictures will deal with the New Life Movement, rural reconstruction, nationalism, and civic training while e films to be obtained from abroad will stress public health, nee, engineering, industries, phytraining and travelogs. The :al Studio will turn out a feature -Chinese History". A special committee created by the Ministry of Education will divide the country into 120 districts to facilitate distribution. A two months' course will be given to train projectionists; 120 are already enrolled. Nanking Gov't Yet to Act in Paramount Controversy The Foreign Field * ♦ News Flashes from All Parts of the Globe ♦ ♦ Wednesday, Nov. 11,1936 U. S, FILMS WINNING STRAITS PREFERENCE *gton Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — State Department, diplomatic and foreign service officials here today had received no official reports or instructions on either the Italian or Chinese embroglio over American films. At the Chinese Embassy here, it was said no representation had yet been received from the Nanking Government on prohibition of importation of all Paramount films following that company's "unsatisfactory" reply to demands for worldwide destruction of "The General Died at Dawn", and "Klondike An Press cables from Shanghai yesterday were to the effect that the Chinese national government at Nanking has prohibited importation of all Paramount films. MPTO of Neb.-W. la. Meets Omaha — Charles Williams, president of the M. P. T. O. of Nebraska and Western Iowa, opened the annual session of the organization here yesterday with 25 exhibitors in attendance and with more expected for the closing session today. Business was transacted at today's closed meeting and a committee consisting of Williams, D. R. Goldie of Cherokee, la., R. D. Kerberg of Sheldon, la., and Walter Creel of Omaha appointed. The committee makes its report today. Williams refused to divulge in advance the nature of the resolutions to be adopted. British Production Notes London— British studios are hitting a fast production pace. B.I.P. has eight films scheduled for production before the end of the year. In work are "Murder Gang", with John Lodge, Francis Lister and Diana Churchill with Brian Desmond Hurst directing; "The Dominant Sex," with Romney Bent, Carol Goodner and Phillips Holmes with Herbert Brenon directing. Then in rapid succession will come "Aren't Men Beasts?" starring Roberson Hare, "Please Teacher", wih Bobbie Howes, Wylie Watson, Vera Pearce and Bertha Belmore from the stage production of the piece at the Hippodi-ome; "Bulldog Drummond at Bay" with John Lodge and Gertrude Michael; "The Norwich Victims" probably with Otto Kruger in the lead; a version of the wireless revue, "The Silver Spoon" and the Ivor Novello play, "Glamorous Night". . . Donovan Pedelty is at work on "Landslide" for Paramount . . . . Criterion starts production on Nov. 15 of Douglas Fairbanks' Jr., stellar vehicle "Jump for Glory", with Alan Hale featured and Raoul Walsh directing. . . . Gainsborough has started the new Will Hay vehicle, "Good Morning, Boys", with Marcel Varnel directing . . . . London Films is working on "Knight Without Armour" with Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat, and "I, Cllaudius", with Merle Oberon and Charles Laughton, Cameron Menzies directing; Erich Pommer is getting under way with "Troopship" Herbert Wilcox Productions is filming "The Navy Eternal" at Weymouth with Capt. Norman Walker directing A Pall Mall unit under direction of Lothar Mendes is at Rothbury shooting on "Moonlight Sonata" with Charles Farrell and Barbara Greene Beaumont Films' Production of "Toilers of the Sea" is in work at Wembly . . . . Two Pathe features are in work at Wewyn, "The Limping Man" with Francis L. Sullivan and Hugh Wakefield and "No Escape" with Valerie Hobson and Billy Milton with Norman Lee directing, while "The Price of Folly" is in process of editing . Atlantic is busy on "Thunder in the City" with Edward G. Robinson and Elliott Nugent Max Miller is on location with the Warner-First National "Don't Get Me Wrong" while Ralph Ince, at Teddington, is directing "The Vulture" with Claude Hulbert and Lesley Learoyd . Victor Saville is directing "Dark Journey" for GB at Denham with Conrad Veidt. A GB unit sailed on Oct. 30 for South Africa to film exteriors for "King Solomon's Mines"; another unit will sail on Nov. 20. Robert Stevenson is directing. Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge are appearing before the cameras at GB's Lime Grove studios in "The Count's Livery", with Herbert Mason directing "Calling All Stars," with the Mills Brothers, is in progress at the Joe Rock Studios Shooting is progressing rapidly on the Max Schacht-Trafalgar production, "Love from a Stranger", with Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone and Binnie Hale "The Silver Blaze," a Sherlock Holmes story, is in work at Twickenham . . . Julius Hagen's "She Got What She Wanted" is in work at Elstree with Tucker McGire, Alastair Sim and Constance Collier with Albert De Courville directing. The Hagen-Franco London production of "Widow's Island" is in work at Hammersmith, with Marcelle Chantal. . . The Joe Rock unit working on "The Edge of the World" wa smarooned in Shelter Island by a gale that swept Scotland. Restaurant to Show Films London — The Paramount Court Restaurant, attached to the Paramount Theater, will install sound reproducing equipment and show special news films for its patrons. "Adverse" in Singapore Singapore — Warner Bros. "Anthony Adverse" opened at the Capitol Theater here to its biggest business during the past five years. The entire Singapore press was unanimous in its lavish praise of the feature. Educ. Mo. in Japan's Cinemas Tokio — During the month of October every motion picture theater was required to show one educational film in every program, under the patronage of the Minister of Public Education and the State Broadcasting Society. Films shown included "The Rice Crop," "Salt," "Tobacco" and "Electricity." Singapore — Despite considerable propaganda for the increase in the exhibition of British Pictures and the fact that the distributor of British pictures here controls the theaters, recent contracts with American companies call for a choice of playing time, according to U. S. Trade Commissioner Harold D. Robinson in this Straits Settlements metropolis. Robinson estimates roughly that the earnings of American films in the territory touch 900,000 (Straits) dollars a year. Eight major American companies are now represented. Six maintain their own offices and representatives and the other two are represented by local agents. Some independent American producers distribute their films through a local Chinese firm. The most important British features are distributed by Pavilion Ltd., the owner and manager of which also controls the Amalgamated Theaters in Singapore. The Chinese pictures are distributed by three local Chinese firms. The Indian pictures are distributed by four firms operated by Chinese and Indians. There are 123 theaters in operation, all wired for sound. Prices of admission vary. In British Malaya prices range between 10 (Straits) cents and S.$2 but are somewhat cheaper in Siam and North Borneo. Feature films with name stars from the United States are favorites. Pre-release advertising of a British picture usually reacts against B. O. receipts. The natives consider British pictures too slow. Three new film houses were built during the last year, one at Butterworth, the others at Kuala Lumpar. A new company is in prospect here, w'th two houses likely to result. Roads for London Theaters London — A new order from the Minister of Transport, effective since Nov. 1, requires that all new theaters built in the London area shall provide private roads so that passengers and equipment can be taken on or discharged without obstructing street traffic. Police Films Spreading Leeds, Eng. — The use of motion pictures by police departments, recently launched at Chesterfield, is spreading. Local police are using the camera in studying traffic problems. At Hull a picture has been made of the work of the constabulary. Films, it is believed, will be of great usefulness not only in the detection of crime but in the training of police personnel. The Leeds Education Department is also using films in the city's school for health propaganda purposes.