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Many major companies, including General Electric, Mattel Toys, Bristol-Myers and Xerox, are gearing up to invest heavily in feature films. Quaker Oats anted up the entire $2 million for the musical Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and is now ready to plow its considerable profits back into new films. Wells, Rich, Greene, the advertising agency, will soon complete its first film, Dirty Little Billy, an irreverent rehash of the Billy the Kid legend...
...them agree on the need to keep production costs in the $1 million-to-$2 million range, a ceiling that the state of the economy has imposed on old-style Hollywood productions as well. "We have no intention of producing Catch~22s," says Richard Kent, treasurer of Bristol-Myers, which will bring out three movies in the fall-all in what Kent calls "the low end of the cost structure...
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...Another reaction was to blame environmentalists for the infestation. Because he recommended no aerial spraying of pesticides, Elmer Madsen of the Bristol, Conn., conservation commission received a box of squirming caterpillars from an angry resident. Someone else called him one night to complain "The noise of the worms eating is keeping me awake." This month three aspirants for political office in Bristol announced that they would run on an ecological backlash ticket. Their theme: Spray pesticides next year...
Such meetings give top figures in the field a rare opportunity to compare notes. In 1969, 150 executives attended the TIME/ 747 Conference in Seattle, where most of them got their first glimpse of the awesome jumbo jet. The following winter TIME flew a similar group to Bristol, England, and then to Paris for a peek at the Concorde and a seminar on the future...