Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know-how which Russian-born Louis Pokrass had developed in two previous careers. As a garment cutter in Manhattan's fiercely competitive dress industry, he had learned the importance of unit costs, and how they could be cut by mass production. As a big liquor wholesaler and distributor, he had also mastered the techniques of selling and distribution so well that he claimed to be grossing $20 million a year in 1946, when he sold out for $3,000,000. He felt well able to risk a $100,000 fling in television...
Licensing powers, Johnson argued, should be set up within the Department of Commerce. Under his bill, every actor and actress would be licensed at $1 a year, every producer at $100, every film distributor at $10,000. The bill's language was vague, but Big Ed's intent was clear: licenses would be revoked whenever a holder was guilty of a crime involving moral turpitude, or whenever the censors decided a film encouraged "contempt for public or private morality." In short, whenever the censors disapproved of the private life of an actor-or the content of a film...
...Milan, Director Vittorio De Sica was "astounded." To Joseph Burstyn, the film's U.S. distributor, he cabled: "Picture circulates successfully whole world including England without ever meeting similar demands. As to girls' house scene, critics everywhere have stressed the delicate way same is conducted ... As to [the boy's] wall scene, once more its spirit and execution have been judged everywhere simply candid. May I recall that noble religious town of Brussels, Belgium, emblem is boy in said circumstances whose statue stands in one of its squares." Taking up the argument, Burstyn charged "a subtle form...
...Association of America, was waging a legal fight against movie censorship by states and cities. Yet The Bicycle Thief already had passed muster with the official censors of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.* Was the M.P.A.A. trying to be more censorious than the very censorship boards it was opposing? Distributor Burstyn planned an appeal to the M.P.A.A.'s directors and beyond them to the U.S. public...
Next he squelched Co-Producer Richard Aldrich's idea of sharing risks by bringing other producers into the deal: "The entrepreneurs must be a solid single firm taking all the profits and risking all the loss . . . Are you a man of business or a philanthropic distributor of rake-offs...