Western Morning News (03/Jun/1932) - New Films in the Making

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• article: New Films in the Making
• newspaper: Western Morning News (03/Jun/1932)
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Cedric Hardwicke, Donald Calthrop, Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont British Picture Corporation Limited, Gordon Harker

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New Films in the Making

British film companies are working hard to produce star attractions for the forthcoming year, and the confidence they have gained by recent successes is helping them to expand their ideas and actions, so that in the near future our film industry stands a good chance of capturing the world trade which Hollywood has hitherto jealously guarded as its own.

Messrs. Herbert Wilcox and Alfred Hitchcock are for ever on the look-out for new ideas, and one which they both propose to explore more fully is the use of colour films. So far a complete colour film has not proved a success, but the use of colour for certain effects could be introduced to enhance their value.

One of the definite proposals which Mr. Wilcox has made is to introduce colour into the sound picture which is being made concerning Jack Payne and his orchestra, and the combination of colour and tuneful music ought not to go wrong. Certainly the musical comedy films might be brightened with a relief from the ordinary black and white, and the colour process workers are busily experimenting.

A strong cast of British artistes will support Miss Esther Ralston in her first Gaumont-Gainsborough picture "The Rome Express." Cedric Hardwicke, Gordon Harker, and Donald Calthrop are names to conjure with, and Conrad Vaidt, the German actor, also has a star part.