Word: foxe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Coaltown, with 130 Ibs. up, romped home last month by seven lengths in the $50,000-added Gallant Fox Handicap, he was assigned 138 Ibs. for Memorial Day's Suburban Handicap at Belmont. "That would strip his gears," stormed Ben, "and if he won, the next time they'd put 145 on him." In short, Coaltown was a very doubtful starter in the Suburban...
...painful fact was that 4,000,000 feet of film still streaming weekly out of five major newsreel companies (Fox-Movietone, Paramount, Warner Pathe, Universal, M-G-M News-of-the-Day) was being staled in television areas by TV's faster, if still less complete, news coverage in pictures. Peacetime had put a big crimp in the popularity won by the war's combat films. But when such ordinarily surefire films as last year's Louis-Walcott fight and Army-Navy game failed to draw heavily, the realists knew the reason...
...blazed by Paramount, toward an interpretive digest of the news in a documentary style popularized by the MARCH OF TIME. In the long run, they hope to compete in spot news through big-screen theater television. Theater TV may also become a major movie sideline. Last week 20th Century-Fox was reported nurturing a plan to set up big TV screens in 15 or 20 of its West Coast theaters by year's end. Through closed circuits, Fox would feed topnotch "live" shows to thea ter screens and outbid TV networks and advertisers for high-priced talent...
...Bargain? When Fox loses its own theaters, a bigger take will be important. In rural areas, movies are now sold for flat rentals. Under the new system there will be sliding rates, with exhibitors getting a bonus when box-office receipts are big. Lichtman thinks this will encourage longer runs for good pictures, hence benefit producer as well as exhibitor...
...think differently. Said Abram Myers, chairman of the Allied States Assn. of Motion Picture Exhibitors: "If film rentals rise, admission prices will have to be increased; and thus the motion-picture industry will be handicapped in its race with competing amusements . . ." In Manhattan, some exhibitors are threatening to boycott Fox films. Even Fox's own Joe Schenck-now that he is to be only an exhibitor-may find himself on the other side of the bargaining fence...