Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet of film still streaming weekly out of five major newsreel companies (Fox-Movietone, Paramount, Warner Pathe, Universal, M-G-M News-of-the-Day) was being staled in television areas by TV's faster, if still less complete, news coverage in pictures. Peacetime had put a big crimp in the popularity won by the war's combat films. But when such ordinarily surefire films as last year's Louis-Walcott fight and Army-Navy game failed to draw heavily, the realists knew the reason...
Farsighted newsreelers think that one hope for their survival in theaters lies along a trail blazed by Paramount, toward an interpretive digest of the news in a documentary style popularized by the MARCH OF TIME. In the long run, they hope to compete in spot news through big-screen theater television. Theater TV may also become a major movie sideline. Last week 20th Century-Fox was reported nurturing a plan to set up big TV screens in 15 or 20 of its West Coast theaters by year's end. Through closed circuits, Fox would feed topnotch "live" shows...
...East, cautious exhibitors waited to be convinced. It would be expensive to install the big TV equipment. (Current estimate: $25,000 per theater.) An even bigger headache: supplying the money and imagination for the kind of TV shows that will persuade customers to leave their living-room sets and buy tickets...
...Big Four Foreign Ministers who meet in Parts today in seek a German settlement may seize a favorable opportunity to explore a broader armistice in the cold war, diplomats said yesterday...
...quite possible that the meeting which begins today in Paris will also end in failure. There is certainly more skepticism in the West now than there was in 1947. But there does exist a possibility of agreement between the Big Four on the German problem: that possibility must be exploited to the fullest by the United States, Great Britain, and France, for the present uneasy condition of a divided Germany is a major roadbloc in the path to some sort of peaceful settlement of the East-West conflict...