Yorkshire Evening Post (07/Jan/1932) - Films of the Future

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• article: Films of the Future
• newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post (07/Jan/1932)
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock

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Films of the Future

According to Mr. Alfred Hitchcock, the famous film producer, the cinema has hitherto depended too much on novels and dramas already produced (says the "Daily Dispatch" London correspondent). One reason he gives is that the lowest cost of a good film is £15,000, while a play can be put on for £2,000, or a novel published for less than £300. Hence the film producers are compelled to go warily and to take as few risks as possible.

Eventually, however, the films, and especially the "talkies," will have their own fresh material. The time might come when, instead of the cinema taking stories from books, it might sell to enterprising novelists its rejected films.