The film industry is among the first three ranking business enterprises in the United States, Mr. Benjamin Y. Cammack, of the export division of the RKO-Radio Pictures, Inc, of Radio City, New York, def clared in an interview with the "North-China Daily News" yesterday. Mr. Cammack arrived from Hongkong in the s. Victoria.
RKO-Radio Pictures, he said produce some of the best pictures ever to come out of Hollywood.
"The Gunga Din for example," he said, "that picture cost U.S.$2,000,000 to produce. It was run for three weeks in the Radio City Music Hall, New York, the largest and best theatre in the world and broke previous box-office records."
Mr. Cammack dwelt on the expenses in making pictures. He said that the minimum spent is $150,000, excluding the expenses for distribution, publicity, print, laboratory work and lithography.
"Kitchener of Khartoum" is the tentative title of a proposed film. which will receive world-wide distribution by RKO Radio Pictures Sir Robert Vansittart, who scripted "Sixty Glorious Years," will write the screen play for "Kitchener of Khartoum," the story following closely the adventure-packed life of the famous British military hero. Herbert Wilcox will direct the film personally.
Mr. Cammack left New York on August 20 and went to Brazil Buenos Aires and South Africa. Subsequently he visited Singapore, Java. Siam, Hongkong and Manila. He plans to stay here for two weeks
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