Over a Thousand Pounds made by a Life-boat Film.

IN 1930 British International Pictures made a film called " The Lady from the Sea," in which the principal inci- dent was a life-boat rescue. Part of the scenes were filmed at the life-boat station at Walmer, Kent, and oh the Goodwin Sands.

After this picture had been produced British International Pictures made, with the life-boat material which it had obtained, a short film for the use of the Institution. This film, which takes seven minutes to show and is in two versions, one silent and one with sound, shows the launch of a life-boat by night, the life-boat at sea, the coxswain washed overboard and res- cued, the rescue of the shipwrecked, and the return of the life-boat next morning.

The whole of the advertising and dis- tribution of the film was undertaken by Wardour Films (the distributing agency for British International Pictures) with- out any cost to the Institution. It is issued to cinemas without charge on the understanding that they allow collections to be made for the life-boat service.

The film was issued in February, 1931, and in the first two years, to the end of February, 1933, it was issued to 219 cinemas and the collections made amounted to £1,050 3*. lOd.

At the meeting of the committee of management on 9th March it was decided to send a special letter of thanks to Mr. John Maxwell, the chairman of British International Pictures, and to award the gold badge to Mr. Joseph Grossman, the studio manager..