Word: korda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Things to Come (London Films) is a $1,400,000, two-hour cinematic summary of the history of the next 100 years. It marks the debut of Herbert George Wells as a screenwriter. It places Alexander Korda's London Film Productions Ltd. on a par with Hollywood for production power as well as brains. It tells an extraordinary story which, while it may not convince cinemaddicts, is likely to captivate them...
...contrast with Hollywood's timid preference for doing, insofar as possible, only what has been done before. Actually, nothing interests people more than matters which do not concern them. Things to Come is therefore magnificent entertainment and a tribute to the sound showmanship that has made Producer Korda the kingpin in England's booming cinema industry...
...house in London's Grosvenor Street where London Films has offices, they are likely to be surprised when a fatigued-looking young man, who has ushered them from an anteroom into a comfortable but shabby little office, then seats himself behind its desk and says: "I am Mr. Korda." That, at 42, Kingpin Korda looks and acts like anything but a Hollywood cinemagnate is no accident. A bright young Budapest journalist who got interested in the cinema in 1916, he reached Hollywood by way of Vienna, Rome and Berlin in 1925. His Private Life of Helen of Troy...
...Producer Korda's start as a journalist left him with a respect for the profession of writing. His sojourn in Hollywood convinced him that the importance of writers to the cinema had been vastly underrated, only less foolishly than the importance of the cinema to writers. From this it was a short step to the conclusion that the payroll of London Film Productions, Ltd. was the proper place for an author like H. G. Wells. Few writers of comparable distinction have ever worked in Hollywood. Most of these have either laughed at or despised their jobs. Author Wells...
With enormous backing, a nucleus of a company in which one of his brothers (Vincent) is art director and another (Zoltan) a director. Producer Korda last year arranged to attack the U. S. market (15,000 theatres to Great Britain's 4,000) on a large scale by buying a partnership in United Artists, which releases his pictures in the U. S. For years the English cinema industry functioned in converted garrets, suburban garden backyards and a few vacant lots at Elstree. Producer Korda bought an enormous tract of land at Denham and set about building...