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1927 Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia

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Cinema Art Films - Posters | Die Grosse Wette 1916 | Metropolis Film Archive | Pandora's Box 1929 | Royal Commission 1927 | Variety 1925 Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia , Parliament of Australia, Melbourne, 1927. The following extract from the proceedings of the Commission pertain to the testimony of Leslie John Keast, Director and General Manager of Cinema Art Films. [page 395] (Taken at Sydney.)  WEDNESDAY, 20TH JULY, 1927.  Present: MR. MARKS, Chairman; Senator Duncan Senator Grant. Mr. Forde. Leslie John Keast, Director and General Manager, Cinema Art Films Limited, Sydney, sworn and examined.  11908. By the Chairman. How long have you occupied your present position?  Since the inception of the company six months ago. It was registered on about 15th December.  11909. Are you an importing company?  Yes. The whole of the capital is Australian.  11910. With which films do you deal?  We are absolutely independent. We buy in every part of the world
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Variety 1925

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Cinema Art Films - Posters | Die Grosse Wette 1916 | Metropolis Film Archive | Pandora's Box 1929 | Royal Commission 1927 | Variety 1925 E.A. Dupont's Variety 1925 Starring Emil Jannings and Lya de Putti The original version and the Australian release of 1927 Variety, original German poster, 1925. Varieté / Variety / Vaudeville is a silent German film directed by E.A. Dupont and starring Emil Jannings and Lya de Putti. Originally premiering in Berlin at the end of November 1925, it was a UFA production noted for innovative camera work by Karl Freund ( Metropolis , Dracula , The Mummy ) and Carl Hoffmann ( Nibelungen , Faust ), with a risque, melodramatic story line. Following its premiere in Germany, Variety was subject to censorship and re-editing for international release, cutting its original 104 minutes down by 25 minutes or more in some instances. The version as released in the United States during 1926 was therefore very different to Dupont's original
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Cinema Art Films - foreign silent films downunder

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Cinema Art Films - Posters | Die Grosse Wette 1916 | Metropolis Film Archive | Pandora's Box 1929 | Royal Commission 1927 | Variety 1925 Cinema Art Films logo from header to the New Zealand 1st generation print of Metropolis (released 1928). Cinema Art Films Ltd. operated in Australia and New Zealand between 1926-30 and briefly in 1939 as a distributor of silent and sound foreign films. Primarily linked to the German studio UFA, Cinema Art Films was also associated with British International Pictures (BIP) and movies such as Alfred Hitchcock's The Ring (1927) and Blackmail (1930). It also presented films from India. Prior to 1927 some German films such as the UFA Emil Jennings vehicle The Last Laugh (1924) were released by Australasian Films Limited and Australasian Films (N.Z.) Ltd., under the banner 'A Master Picture'. This latter reference can be seen in the poster below. The Last Laugh , UFA and Australasian Films, 1924, long daybill, 15 x 40 inches.
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