Censorship Fees a Ba Imported Films Maker of "Man of Oran'
Now Touring India That the future of foreign motion pictures in China appeared. hopeless was. the opinion of two. American Cinema executives, "who passed
the Chinese pictures had reached such Not fu artistic stage to supplant the American and British product, they fold, but rather the loiter " were hampered By. the ramifications of Censorship, plus fees for censoring: Which were not equalled in other Foreign countries.
One. of the executives pointed out that the income from is pictures thawn in Ching was. a8" 8. soap bubble compared with "the world ross. receipts which his company took in. hand.
The burden, he said, would fall on the small independent exhibitor, who tinable to bear the extra tax, which Wwould have to be passed on him, ould no longer operate. 'The igh censorship fee automatically - would force him out of business, because Tis profits, ordinarily nominal, would reduced to the vanishing margin "The censoring fee had been virtually doubled, and. in' Canton extra entertainment tax hed been tracted, Other cities might follow suit, with the result fat the exhibi-for could no longer keep his theatre open, The foreign product was not {mterfering with his showing of Chi-hose pictures, inasmuch as the output of Chinese pictures last. year, about 60, was entirely insufficient for. any theatre. About 500 foreign pictures fate imported annually.
Fre would recommend, at the slightest invitation from. his New York fee, that his "company's pictures no longer should be sent to China'
Dr. Robert Flaherty, who produced that highly praised picture, "Man of Oran," probably will be coming to China soon to make a film on the country folk of the interior, the "North-China Herald" learned Saturday. At present Mr. Flaherty on his way' to India, where be Intends to make a film based on Mr.
Rudyard Kipling's famous book, The great ambition of Mr. Flaherty, it was revealed, is to penetrate distant glamorous hinterlands, to see strange exotic people, to have adventures among them, and to understand them, He wishes not only to visit such laces, but to bring back his im-Dressions and give people who have hho such opportunity a chance of seeing the thrills, beauties, dangers, and heroisms of life beyond the outer fringes of civilization.
Men and women of this earth, he says, are fine and brave, wherever they may be, but in big populous cities their courage and strength are never so. spectacular, since, he contends, it takes sudden danger and the background of the stupendous conflict of man against nature in the raw to bring them out in all their true splendour and integrity.
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