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made 'liis flesh creep to hear it, and all through bo kept any islanders in his vicinity, in front of him. It -was good advice never to Jot. u Solomon Islander get 'behind, you. AS AN ACTOR. “I was ifortunato to bo at the Solomons when Mr Jack London, the novelist, was there,” said M. Sutto. “He had a terriiblo time at Malaita, where'his boat was thrown up on the; reel'. While in that perilous position thp natives swarmed down to the beach from the mountains eager to get'something out of the wreck. London and his wife, armed with loaded revolvers, and never dreaming hut that their end had come, managed to hold out until relieved by the arrival of a trader’s vessel. Mr London and his wife proved charming companions, and .when we acted out little tragedy at Tulaga, ho was one of the actors who defended the hut and gallantly fell, mortally wounded by a poisoned spear, ilf he hadn’t been a great book-writer, he would have made a fine actor.” The 'Commonwealth Government were alive to the presence of a Pathe representative in Australia, and after making full inquiries resolved to spend £2200 with Pathe Proves ifor ta series of views. “We have earned a good name for our pictures by studying their composition. Anyone cun 'go out with a camera and take a moving picture — there is nothing in that. We study our subject from every standpoint—light, weather, ■ atmosphere, background, detail, and exercise the discretion that comes with experience ns to when to stop and when to begin again. An 'industrial film, for instance, has to be carefully thought out beforehand, so as the photograph will show exactly and clearly what is desired to ho shown. Our training teaches us to consider' all the finer points that produce the finished picture—that makes the Patlie predominant. Some films that the public might iivuigino were taken in a few minutes might take a fortnight to complete, as the process of film-joining and manufacture at our works in Paris is a very delicate one. TO THE. ENDS OF THE EARTH. “But it is not so much our good work which hi is made Pathe famous it is our system of distributing films* which has helped to make tho firm bigger than all others in the v. 01 lcl put together. A man may take a picture and exhibit it here and e.sowhere in New Zealand—then what becomes of it? With us rt is different We turn out 000,000 feet of Rim a week, and the show firms m nil the leading cities of the world ■uionge under an agreement to take md ‘exhibit that programme, llien when they are done with them, the iilms are passed on to the next larger cities, then to the towns, until they ■ire being shown ill the villages, and that is going on in every country m the world.” M Sutto intends to send his operators, Messieurs Herault and Theyer, to New Zealand to get three or tour Bilms of Maori life, -and if inducement is offered may take a few pieces on behalf of the Government, as tliev are doing in Australia.

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