[3] Four films were entered: Fellers, The Cheaters, Tiger Island and The Nation of Tomorrow.
[4][5] The makers of Fellers argued that their film had been given enough prints under the judging system to warrant the second prize of £2,500 and threatened to sue, but the government did not change its mind.
The Cheaters was voted fourth, Tiger Island fifth and Nation of Tomorrow sixth (even though there had only been four entries.
)[7] The conditions of the film competition included that films should be produced in the Commonwealth, that 76 per cent, of the scenes should be "shot" in the Commonwealth or its territories, that the capital employed in the production of films should be substantially British, and that about 50 per cent, of the acting and the work of production should be carried out by British subjects, who had lived for the previous two years in the Commonwealth.
The judges were General I. C. Mackay, Beatrice Tildesley, and Kenneth Wilkinson.