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...later founded Janus Films, the American distributor for such directors as Jean Renoir and Ingmar Bergman, and probably the most important popularizer of old and foreign movies in the United States...
...Shooting, which he starred in, and Ride the Whirlwind, which he starred in and wrote as well. He also turned out to be a demon for efficiency and staying within budgets. When the movies were finished, he personally carried them to the Cannes Film Festival, searching for a distributor and trying to scratch up some contacts...
Hollywood rarely reissued its movies in 1953, and when it did the distributor usually expected at least $100,000 gross--a figure far beyond the capabilities of the 350-seat Brattle. Most foreign distributors preferred to hold onto their films for years waiting for a showing at some huge art house, rather than rent to a little theater like the Brattle...
...additional problem facing Harvey's and Halliday's revival business was that most old films were printed on a combustible nitrate base, and new Massachusetts laws required the more modern safety prints. For a distributor to release a print of an obscure film to the Brattle, he had to reprint the film on new stock...
...Advertising Service, a distributor of college advertising, sent a wire yesterday to all involved college newspapers, notifying them of the addition of the sentence regarding peak-season price hikes...