PRICE - - 6d. Inland, Per Annum 10/6 ABROAD - 30/- '—and in addition to the feature we have a Hal Roach comedy-” WHEN THE TELEPHONE TO INQUIRE WHAT’S AT YOUR THEATRE the clinching argument is LAUREL CHARLIE OUR THE BOY HARDY CH ASF GANG FRIENDS HAL ROACH M-G-M produces ’em releases ’em — ! THE BIOSCOPE November 12, 1930 NOT “SEX APPEAL”! -NOT “BACK STAGE”! NOT “WALL STREET”! -NOT “SONG HITS”! “ ” NOT ALL SINGING, ALL DANCING, ALL COLOUR ! but— u ?» The most fascinating nature novelty that has ever been produced DASS AN—Daily Express the latest masterpiece from the magic camera of CHERRY KEARTON THE MAGNETIC NAME THAT DRAWS THE CROWDS Recri what the Trade Critics Say: “Excellent offering of its type/’ The Bioscope. Dassan ’ is delightful entertainment.” — Cinema. “ Drama, humour, romance are all combined in this film which should receive wide acceptance.” —Daily Film Renter. ‘‘Undoubtedly a novelty attraction which should prove a tonic to the box-office. —Kinematograph Weekly. 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Vol. LXXXV NOVEMBER 12, 1930 PRICE 6d. In Brief Sensing the Communal On October 29th—-the week before the British Films Gala Per- TfUSION between B.I.F. and B.I.P. is formance—Sydney Hayden, resident British director of Kinemas, * practically completed. Page 15 Ltd., placed before us the broad outline of a scheme for a Central British Films Publicity Bureau, which we published in The Bioscope. A SUB-COMMITTEE of the F.B.I. Films Group is formulating plans Many months before, The Bioscope had advocated the creation of an for a central publicity bureau. Page 14 organisation of this character, with the same object in view, viz., to ensure that Dominion and foreign film buyers—the former EORGE W. Pearson announces that especially—might enjoy at the hands of the British film industry Audible Filmcraft have taken over assistance at least comparable to that advanced by American pro- five theatres, with control of several others. Page 14 ducers in exploiting their product abroad—notably within the British Empire. A SERIOUS new sound patents war has developed in Germany. We have been gratified during the past week to find that certain Page 16 contemporaries of ours have joined us in urging Better Publicity for British Films.