Motion Picture News (Oct-Dec 1930)

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What is the M A J 6 R Achievement ot 1930 Wednesday, December 10, 1930 DAILY • • • AS THIS dizzy year of 1930 wobbles t.o a close, what outstanding achievements can be chalked up for the film biz? we will select one that may astonish you it is American development of the world-wide foreign field of course you will snicker and haw-haw at that one when you survey the foreign biz all shot to pieces by the talkie upset thi; past year but we're referring to development of the Newsreel Fox Movietone News, to be more explicit what Clayton P. Sheehan, foreign manager of Fox, and Truman H. Talley, general manager of the Newsreel, have done this past twelve months constitutes one of the MAJOR trade accomplishments of the year it reads like a page from a modern Arabian Nights right now this organization is turning out 37 foreign editions every week Talley has established four major foreign Movietone organizations plans are in the works for News Reel Theaters in the important cities of the world one year ago the British Movietone News was started in London four months later Fox Actualites Parlantes was established in Paris then came Fox Tonende Wochenschau in Berlin and in far off Sydney, Australia, the Australian Movietone was started for each of these organizations it was necessary to establish independent sound camera units, editorial offices, and manufacturing plants every one of the 37 editions is edited especially with a view to local prejudices and interests practically every important foreign country gets its Fox newsreel made just for its particular VIEWPOINT mull that one over, if you think this was a kindergarten stunt that Messrs. Sheehan and Talley put over in ONE little year it's a job for diplomats editing newsreels so as not to offend nationalistic spirit and so well has the stupendous task been handled, that the various nationals consider their particular newsreel a NATIVE INSTITUTION one American producing concern has solved the foreign problem so far as the newsreel is concerned and for 1931 what producer is going to do the same thing for the feature talkies? it CAN be done MOVIETONE NEWS Achieving world wide success twice every week!