Headline
World's Film Centre: Huge British Enterprise - Films for the Far East
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1920-09-22
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Publication Year
1920
Page
2
Organisation
Summary

A new film development, of first rate importance to Great Britain, is taking place as a result of Mr. Greenhill, a City manufacturer of 'raw' films, visited many place around the world and established distributing channel in American, Japan, Africa and Australia, with further places to follow, including Philippines, Shanghai, Singapore, Bombay and Vladivostock. Contracts had also been signed with stars and filmmakers, including Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Fairbanks, Mr. D. W. Griffith and Miss Mary Pickford. The whole scheme, which had been approved and adopted by the United Artists, would have one important result – the unfettered entry of the best British pictures into all parts of the world.

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