Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longtime cinema sound man named Jay Fonda. He got his idea from the movie sound track. He thought that a sound record on film, using a needle instead of the strong light by which a movie track is translated into sound, might have many advantages over records made of wax disks or cylinders. But how to press a sound track on film with a needle, without cutting through the film? Fonda finally solved that problem with a "yieldable bed" of felt under the film, which would permit the needle to emboss a groove in the film without cutting through...
...first time since Britain's first "jumpy" was shown in 1896, the British cinema industry is in a position to command the commercial respect of Hollywood. There are two reasons: 1) Britain has been turning out enough four-bell films so that U.S. movie fans do not automatically look the other way when a British label turns up; 2) a tall, dark, retiring Briton named Joseph Arthur Rank. Tycoon Rank is 55, well preserved, and lives as simple a life as any man can with a 48,000-acre estate-Sutton Manor, in Hampshire-and another home in Surrey...
...Methodist inheritance was the one that got J. Arthur Rank into the movies. Some 15 years ago he became concerned about the low and meager state of religious cinema, and organized the Religious Film Society, Ltd. He began making movies for Methodists. (He still teaches Sunday school in Reigate...
...Monopoly." Unlike the U.S. cinema industry, Britain's movie business has never been a cut-&-dried, Big-Five or Big-Seven operation: stars and producers float around from studio to studio; some of the biggest producing companies have no studios of their own; some of the biggest studio owners have virtually no production under their own trademarks. This intricate, fluid setup was a natural for a man with J. Arthur Rank's wealth and financial acumen. Until he descended upon the British cinema industry, this setup had also been a natural for the big U.S. producers, who made...
...Some 600 cinema theaters, worth ?24,000,000. This is less than 15% of the British total, but since they include Gaumont-British's 275, and Odeon's 300 cinemas and supercinemas, they cater to almost one-third of Britain's 23,000,000 weekly cinemaddicts...