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'HERITAGE.'*
LARGE SCALE OF PRODUCTION.
Al a meeting of the New South Wales Talking Picture Pioduceis' Association ycstei day, Mt Challes Chauvel said that duiing the making of "Heritage," which he pioduced for Expeditionary Films, Ltd , £1000 a momh was paid in wages to "extras" foi a consider- able peilod The film took eight months t"
make, scenes weie taken in thiee Stntes,| and moie than 1000 men and women ^'eiel given employment
In addition to the featuied players and "extias, ' many plasleieis, carpenters, and scenic aitlsts weie employed in the constiuc tlon of settings, The prepaiation of 800 cos- tumes alone gave employment to large num bets of seamstresses, fltteis, and millineis
The association Is utging the passing of the
Film Quota Bill, which came before Pailta-i ment for Its first leading last month