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The Kinematograph Year Book.
Of those produced entirely in this country there were perhaps not more than four big pictures. We may count "The Lodger," " Mons," " Madamoiselle from Armentieres/ and " The Flag Lieutenant " as first-class attractions, the rest can hardly come into this category.
So far, then, the demand has not succeeded in creating the supply. But in the coming year facilities will certainly he greater — thanks chiefly to the opening of the British National Studios at Elstree — and two or three firms which have not yet entered this branch of the industry are talking of making pictures. So far Pathe, Wardour, F.B.O., and Allied Artists, have announced this intention, and with the organisations already recognised as British producing units one should see a marked advance in 1927.
In addition, Paramount, Metro, and Warner Bros., have broached the subject ; how far their suggestion will be justified by performance has yet to be seen,
Entertainment Tax.
Quite unavailing endeavours were made, at the time the Budget was presented to the House, to secure abolition or reduction of the Entertainment Tax, but there was little hope. The Committee of the C.E.A. appointed to deal with this question is still in being, and has not relaxed its efforts, but in view of the industrial unrest of the year, and the financial handicap under which the Chancellor has had to work, prospects are dark for 1927.
Harry Day, M.P.. tabled a reduced scale in June, but had to acknowledge Mr. Churchill's argument that the cost to the revenue — £1,000,000 that year, and £1,350,000 in a full year, could not he afforded. The Chancellor's statements that he shared the general prejudice against the Tax, and that if he could afford to make any modification it would be on the lines of the Snowden reduction of 1924 affecting the whole range of seats, is worth noting for future reference.
The Strike.
What might have been a crushing blow to the trade in May, the General Strike, was met with a courage and resourcefulness which were wholly admirable. Normal transport being entirely held up, the trade organised its own dumps, and by a complicated but highly