Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professional theaters because of the theaters' potential power to withhold films from the societies. Cyrus I. Harvey '47, owner of the Harvard Square, Brattle Square, and Central Cinemas is in a good position to wield this power. Harvey is one of the founding partners of Janus films, a major distributor of foreign films to both professional and non-professional groups. Janus often checks with Harvey's manager, Robert St. George, to okay a film before sending it to a Harvard society...
...Harvey] has a good enough relationship with the distributor to have them blackball us from showing any films," says Mark S. Campisano '75, publicity chairman for Winthrop House Films...
Many film society members feel there is also the legal reprisals. When regulations laid down by the distributor, the University's rules, and laws relating to public gatherings are taken into consideration, "there's no way to make money," says Campisano...
After that, De Sédouy and Harris were all set to release their picture-except that the country's two principal film distributors, Gaumont and Pathé, reversed an earlier decision and refused to book it. They were afraid, explained one distributor, that the film "would provoke public disorder...
...largest distributor of non-union lettuce in the country, buying over three million heads a week. We are attacking them because of their purchasing power," Lassen said...