The Admiralty's Film Profits
When the British Admiralty arranges to place ships and personnel at the disposal of a cinema company for the manufacture of a film, the Lords Commissioners taking fifteen per cent. of the profits, when the Lords Commissioners sue the company for a balance alleged to be due, and lose their case instead of winning it, the most doctrinaire Socialist might reasonably hold that State trading had been carried a little far. There will, in fact, be little dissent from the strictures passed by Mr. Justice Charles on the transaction. There may be cases when the making of an army or navy or air force film is to be encouraged and due facilities for it, given. But a percentage partnership between the Admiralty and a private film company is not a relation- ship to welcome—even if it turned out better pecuniarily than this example of it has. * * * *
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