Word: 35mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...originally refused to release any films to the HLU "after several local theaters had protested." The action had been based on common trade practice which allows an exhibitor to complain if non theatrical 16mm showings compete with a 35mm theater...
Stipulations in the agreement proposed by the Liberal Union were that HLU would show films more than one year old, unless they were documentaries or foreign language films or unobtainable on 35mm. It also provided that English language films less than a year old would be shown only with U.T. consent...
Theater managers based their protects on contracts which they had signed with film distributors. The agreement stated that theaters showing 35mm, prints did not have to compete with non-theatrical enterprises using 16mm...
...contended that contracts between distributors and exhibitors state that non-theatrical enterprises may not show 16mm films which compete with 35mm outlets. The HLU protested that it had already signed contracts with United World to receive certain prints...