Cinema Art Films - foreign silent films downunder
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.