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Talking Pictures
been mentioned that there are thirty-six thousand sound motion picture theatres outside of the United States. The same international area has seventy thousand odd silent theatres.
American audiences prove that the film is truly an international art, for about one sixth of all films produced internationally reach the United States. They do not care where a film is made, providing its story, camera, and sound qualities are high. A case in point is Be Mine Tonight. This was a German-made musical presented in the English language. It featured Jan Kiepura, a star of whom few Americans had heard. Yet it rilled more theatres than many American-made successes of the period. It offered a striking new technique in musical pictures and, since its importation, has been widely imitated.
American producers welcome the increasing interest shown by foreign countries in improving their native film production. The achievements of the American film industry have been great, but it is certain that, under the spur of adequate foreign competition, they will surpass their former triumphs.
America was the first country to enter the motion picture industry on a large scale, and other countries now engaged in it largely follow the methods devised here. There is no great country which does not have actual film production. There are several gigantic concerns in Japan, where films are exceedingly popular. There are studios in China, India, Australia, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Spain, Italy, and Sweden, and there are many others elsewhere.
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