Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1929, Page 15

WELWYN STUDIOS TYPICALLY BRITISH Instructional Films Have Modern Plant Nine Miles From Elstree. To what extent is the British film in- @ustry going to survive? Admitiedly the business in England is in'its infancy as compared with that in the United States. A few months ago optimistic views were entertained, but it is impossible to escape the fact that note of pessimism can be heard at tree and Welwyn. the centers of the ipdustry in the Unfied Kirgdom. 'Mysterious influences are rumored at work, and there are those who say at- tacks have been engineered from the United States to defeat what the Amer- ican film magnates consider as possibly dangerous English_competition. In the circumstances it is timely to describe what is being done in the Eng- lish _studios, and following is the last of ‘three dispaiches giving a bird's eve view of conditions. BY JOAN LITTLEFIELD, (8taff Correspondent of The Star and the North Amerian Newspaper Alliance.) LONDON, July 20.—One of the new- est though by no means largest fllm studios in England is that belonging to British Instructional Films at Wel- wyn Garden City, nine miles northeast of Elstree. ‘Welwyn is new, a pleasant community of red bungalows and grass-bordered roads. It has its own theater, its own shops and its own factories. It is de- cidedly a place with a future, and it 1s likely that before long it will become a miniature Hollywood. The air is good, the atmosphere as clear as one cgn expect in England, and the sur- ,Junamg country pretty, undulating “Wgd well wooded. tish Instructional Films is prob- ably the most characteristically Eng- lish of all the producing companies in this country. It was created by Bruce ‘Woolfe in 1919, and its first picture “Jutland,” made entirely from models. For a time Mr. Woolfe concentrated on war pictures, and “Ypres,” “Arma- geddon,” “Mons” and “The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands” were all made by his company. British In- structional Films is also celebrated for its series of short pictures, now exceed- ing 100, and called “Secrets of Na- ture” They deal with plant, animal and microscopic life. Recent Successes. 1t is only recently the company has begun story films. The first was An- thony Asquith's “Shooting Stars,” and among its recent successes are “Under- ground,” “Shiraz,” an all-Indian film telling the story of Taj Mahal; “Boli- bar” and “The Lost Patrol.” Mr, Woolfe, & big, genial man with graying hair and keen, dark eyes, took me to Welwyn to see his studio. He is justly proud of the organization he has it and of the fact that every mem- ber of its directorate and staff and every penny of its capital is British. “Our policy is to produce pictures British in spirit and as far as possible in_direction, cast and technique,” he sald, “We have no use for screen con- ventions. Our intention is to evolve a technique as unmistakably British as that of the pictures from Hollywood or New Babelburg is American or Ger- man.” Mr. Woolfe, like every other film magnate in Wardour street, is ex- tremely interested in the future of the talkies. Personally he does not like them. He believes they are detrimental to the art of the cinema and that their popularity will be short lived. At present his company is not think- ing of making talkies, but it has ar- ranged to have sound synchronization for all the pictures it is making now. “This is essential,” sald Mr. Woolfe, “for no silent pictures are being booked. Nevertheless, our policy is to go slow and awalt developments.” * ¥ Shown Over Studio. At Welwyn I was handed over to a young university man, who showed me over the studio. British Instructional Films is essentially a company in which youth predominates. It is staffed largely"| by young men of varsity type, whose enthusiasm and ideas should assure | an extremely interesting future for the organization. The production manager is Paul Ma- deux, a young Swiss educated in Eng- land, who had five yeats' éxperience m the Fairbanks studio at Hollywood. ‘The most famous of the directors is Anthony Asquith, son‘ of Lady Oxford and the most talked of and most bril- liant young man in British films." Mr. Asquith is a hard worker and pays minute attention. to detail. He goes about the studio in an old tweed suit, and is popular with every one. His latest film is “A Cottage on Dart- ‘moor,” and for this he has had a most elaborate hairdresser's shop built in the studio. The cottage is there, too, and the escape of the convict should prove one of the most thrilling incidents in this ilm. The stars are Norah Baring, voung English actress who scored a success in “Underground”; Uno Hen- ning, Swedish star, and Hans Schlettow, German_actor, who is paying his first visit to England. Mr. Schlettow is tall, dark, handsome and muscular, and has fallen deperately in love with England. “The\ British Museum, I found it so marvelous 1 wanted to stay there a week,” he sald. “And your National Gallery, what a wonderful place, and the tombs of the kings in Westminster gbb]!y! We have nothing like them in erlin!” Defends Lowbrows. At one time it was thought Mr. As- quith would ~ttempt to inflict high brow ideas on the film industry, but re- cently he has been vigorously defendjng the lowbrows. He compares the cinema with the Elizabethan theater, when ‘“every au- thor, whether a genius or a nonentity, was writing for the same audience,” and he says that in this respect the cinema is “the only surviving popular Another impartant member of the staff is Frank Wells, talented son of H. G. Wells, who has gained consider- able position as an art director. Mr. ‘Wells is fair, with blue eyes. 'He wears his hair rather long and, of course, af- fects the tweeds and pullover that seem de _rigueur at Welwyn. ‘The studio is a steel frame building of 41,600 square feet. The floor space is 200 feet long by 100 feet wide and 50 feet high. The general layout is de- signed to localize the departments. On the right of the main hall are all the offices of the administrative depart- ment, on the left the process rooms, the projection theater and the still rooms, all intercommunicating, but en- tirely separated from any other part of the building, and giving adequate admission to the studio floor. A feature of the studio is the three mess rooms, in which 200 or 300 peo- ple can be accommodated. Sunk in the floor at the east end is- & tank 40 feet long, 30 feet wide and 8 feet deep which can be filled with water. Back of this is a large roller shutter door capable of giving & clear view outside. This is 50 feet wide and 30 feet high. Air Conditioning Important. _Air conditioning is an important fea- ture in studio construction in this country and the main studio at Welwm which has a capacity of 900,000 cul with heating s large lant of two complete of A Outside studio is a permanent row of shops which form a useful back- nd to many pictures, and n the new sound studlo, recently fitted with recording equipment, and which will be used for sound synchronization. In e brief survey it is not 0 Ao mprn #lene oo =o' impeseeions | | ‘W. 0. SANDERS, Editor of the Elizsabeth City, N. C., Independent, walked the streets of his town in a pajama-clad protest against present Summer styles for men. —Associated Press Photo. JAPAN TO OBSERVE LIGHT’S ANNIVERSARY Appropriation Made to Celebrate Invention of Edison’s Lamp. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘TOKIO, July 20.—Japan has decided | ‘to take part in the world-wide observ- ance of the fiftieth anniversary of Thomas A. Edison's invention of the electric light by appropriating 250,000 yen for a week's celebration to be held in_Tokio in October. ‘The program includes {lluminating the Ginza, the modern shopping street, by installing 50-kilowatt electric globes || imported from America. These power- ful lights will make the street brighter than daylight. | Hibiya Park and the Meiji Shrine grounds will be similarly illuminated. At the latter place a Kugby game will be played at night for the first time in this country. At the Imperial Thelfiel’l and Imperial Hotel Auditorium dances will be staged. ‘The Electric Society will give a din- ner at the Imperial Hotel and send a| congratulatory cable to Mr. Edison. Essays on electricity will be solicited by the soclety from the public and lec- tures on the subject will be delivered | by the nation’s prominent electrical en- gineers in Yasuda Auditorium at Tokio Imperial University. JOAK radio sta-|; tion will broadcast music and lectures on electricity, and at Tokio and other leading cities competitions in the illu- mination of show windows will be held. ‘The committee which decided to ap- propriate 250,000 yen is composed of Tepresentatives from the following so- cleties: The Japan Lighting Soclety, |, Electric Soclety, Electric Engineering || Society. Lighting Institute, Japan | Broadcasting Society, Imperial Inven- tion Soclety, City Beautification Soci- || ety, Tokio Electric Industrialists So~ clety, Tokio Department Store Guild | and five minor groups. MILLION-DOLLAR SUIT By the Associated Press. July 20.—Actors’ Equity Asseciation today filed suit for $1,000,000 damages against Tully Mar- shall, veteran stage and screen charac- ter actor, and Warner Brothers, Inc., film producers, and sought a Superior Court order prohibiting the actor from carrying out a contract. I The action, which was the first brought since Equity sought new con- tract arrangements with motion pic- ture producers, was viewed in Holly- || wood film circles as a test case flled in || an effort to determine how strong a members. | The complaint stated Marshall had || been a member of Equity since 1913, and had agreed on'June 5 last to enter | only such contracts as were approved |/ by the -association. It further alleged Marehall had entered on July 1 a con- || tract with Warner Brothers, Inc., in || violation of hi¢ agreement with Equity. Superior Judge Walter Gates ordered Marshall to appear July 29 to show cause why he should not be restrained from carrying out the contract with the producers. Warner Brothers, Inc., || ‘were not ordered to appear. I Equity demanded of lucers a con- tract, a clause of which states that no association member could be employed on a lot where an unaffiliated actor was || working. The complaint alleged Mar- shall was npw, working in violation of alleged Marshall had been induced by the vrroduclns company to ijssue an interview criticizing Equity for its demands, and stated the inter- view led others to do the same and brought great damage upon the asso- ciation by weakening the morale of its members. ¢ of a few of the more important and representative British film studios, and in' conclusion I can mention only & few of the other studios sptirging up around London. ‘There is the newly-formed British Lion Film Corporation, which has Edgar Wallace as one of its directors, and which intends to produce chiefly film versions of this author's novels. The company has built a dio at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, a pic- turesque village chiefly notable for the fact that G. K. Chesterton and J. L. Garvin live there. Mr. Wallace is & notable disciplina- rian in the studio. He allows no noise, no shouting, no indecision and no smoking while shots are being taken. First Sound Studio. At Hendon, near the airdrome, are the studios of Aerofilms, Ltd., while at ‘Wembley, in the exhibition grounds, British Talking Pictures have bullt the first sound studio to operate in England. South of the Thames are two im- portant studios—those of the Alliance Co., at St. Margaret's-on-Thames, and the Archibald Nettlefold Productions, at Walton-on-Thames, . \Nettlefold is in close touch with the London stage and has filmed several of the &:fl produced at his own theater, the - edy. He discovered Mabel Poulton. Mr. Nettlefold is also a co-director in Britannia Films, Ltd., & company which has the the urey. British film industry has be- come a power to be reckoned with, and, though for a moment it has paused in its stride to grapplé with t already the film the problem of the talkie, challenges comparison with i * centers of ‘world. i (Cobyright, 1920, by Morth American News- | ‘aper Alliancs.) - TESTS EQUITY POWER | legal grip the association has upon its | : THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, JULY 21, 1929—PART 1 knomy Kolumn 50c Drapery Fabrics, 25c yard New and desirable floral and striped patterns in cretonne, crash and sateen for draperies and couch covers. 79c Grass Rugs, 44c 27x54 stenciled grass rugs in popu- lar patterns and colors. $1 & $1.59 Lamp Shades, 79¢ Eeautifully decorated paper h- ment and novelty pleated les for bridge, junior and table lamps. $1.79 Crackel Lamp Shades $129 Heavy, fine quality shades in strik- ing color scheme. For bridge, junior and table lamps. ‘Third Floor. With Coupon Only O.N.T. 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