Mr. E. P. Smithasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will state broadly the principles of the prewar laws for protecting the French film industry from undue foreign competition; and will he consider how to adapt similar legislation in the interests of this country.
§ Sir S. CrippsApart from a provision that foreign films must be "dubbed" in the French language if they were shown in more than a small number of theatres, the broad principle of the prewar French film legislation was to restrict the number of films allowed to be imported.