On Britain's Attempt at a Movie Industry

From a BBC broadcast (Radio Newsreel: "English Films and the War"): "The result of our peculiar situation is that, in spite of every kind of ingenious legislation and notwithstanding an occasional highly untrustworthy boom, the English film industry has never in its history been able to cast off the shackles of an inescapable competition within its own domain, or to put itself into a condition of artistic and economic health. The problems of British film production are varied and many...It is sufficient to say that most of the methods employed to promote film-making here are mainly makeshift and unsound." In Search of My Father, pg. 22

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