Canada and Hollywood It is good news that the Canadian
Board of Film Censors is laying emphasis on the importance of the increased exhibition of British films in Canada. The hard facts of geography put Canadian audiences, Canadian readers and Canadian listeners-in far too much at the mercy of the United States. American radio programmes, American films and American maga- zines penetrate in formidable volume far across the border, and Canada is seeing and hearing about the world very largely through American interpretation. No reflection on the United States and its products is involved in the desire that Canada, as a British Dominion, should have at least equal access to British interpretations. The world as depicted by Hollywood would be a strange place to live in. Fortunately the time has come when Elstree can begin to measure itself 'with Hollywood on the basis of intrinsic merit.
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