Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walter M. Ulin '54, president of Ivy Films, last night contradicted the Monitor report, saying that his group had ordered the film "Emperor Jones" from a distributor's catalogue, but that the distributor, Ideal Pictures, Inc., had later withdrawn it. "They thought of some lame excuse," he said...
...Films and the H.L.U. proposed that all organizations showing films here register them with the Dean's Office before scheduling and show proof that they have a contract for the picture from a national distributor. In case of conflict, the group registering the film first would have exclusive right to show...
Last week Hughes picked the man he thinks can do the job. Subject to his board's approval, Hughes named as RKO's new president James R. Grainger, a veteran Hollywood distributor who is sales manager of Republic Pictures. But what RKO needed most of all was someone who could get it back into making movies...
...proposed plan requires all such organizations to register their pictures with the Dean before scheduling them and show him proof that they have contracted for the film with its national distributor. In case two groups wish to register the same film, the one which register first during the term will be given the exclusive right to show...
From across another ocean Denmark Distributor Rudolf Fardal also wrote of his first experiences with TIME. He was a distributor of Swedish newspapers and magazines, most of them banned during the German occupation. One day in 1945, he received word that a TIME Inc. representative would like to talk to him in Stockholm. To get permission to make the trip, Fardal concocted an elaborate ruse. About a year earlier, he had become the Danish representative for a paper mill in Gothenburg, Sweden. So he arranged surreptitiously to have this firm send him a letter offering to ship a large quantity...