An Ambitious American Company with Model Studios in Shanghai: Many Novelties A new era is before China in the amusement world, for a modern system of taking, assembling and distributing motion pictures is under way and will be functioning actively shortly, said the general manager of the Peacock Film Ca., Mr. F. V. Chamberlin, in an interview with a representative of the '"'North-China Daily News" on Tuesday. The new company is non-sectarian, non-political, and international in its scope and is to deal solely in pictures with no taint of vice in any form- -that is, no pictures which in any degree show drugs or drink to excess, or phases of the eternal triangle will be tolerated.
Mr. Chamberlin, who has been here but a little over a week, arriv-§ng on the str. President Grant on Saturday week, said that, before leaving New York, he viewed more than 600 different pictures, from which he selected nearly 100 comedies and a like number of tragedies, in addition to a large series of health and educational pictures. Of the feature films viewed, he rejected at last 75 of the group for moral reasons. This library is to be increased by their agents in America, and to China will be sent the best on the American market. Further, pictures of English, French and German make are to be utilized in carrying the message of Western culture to the Chinese, and no pictures detrimental to the good of any people or mankind in general will be permitted.
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