THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on March 7 in the years identified:

1950: President of Kingswood Films, Inc, Robert B. Cumming , announces that an agreement is reached for his company to make 12 motion pictures for distribution by EagleLion, Inc, the largest US independent film distributor. All 12 films will be produced in Jamaica, British West Indies, under the new Kingswood international film financing formula. Kingswood has special legislative sanctions for its operations in Jamaica. The announcement culminates nearly three years of negotiations between his company, the US, British and Jamaican governments to establish an international film-financing formula aimed at relieving the acute dollar problem abroad with respect to US – produced films, while easing the foreign exchange difficulties of American producers plagued by British 75 per cent withholding law and other foreign restrictions.

1951: On a tour of the West Indies to see livestock development and its problems is Robert Simmonds, adviser on animal health to the secretary of state for the colonies, who arrive by BWIA aircraft from Trinidad. Simmonds left Britain in January and has visited Trinidad, Barbados, Grenada and several other islands. After a few days in Jamaica, he will go to British Honduras and return later this month for a three-week stay. A Scotsman, Simmonds has been in the Colonial Service for 28 years. He is met by Roger Arnold, acting deputy director of agriculture (livestock) and Patrick Guilbride, senior veterinary officer.