Word: gaumont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the summer, Cineman Fox, proud of the quick expansion that had brought his organization Loew's Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the Gaumont Theatres in England, decided to consolidate all his holdings into one In September the authorized Class A stock of Fox Film was increased from 900,000 to 4,900,000 shares, but the consolidation never took place. Last summer Mr. Fox, injured in an automobile accident (TIME, July 29), was away from his office for almost two months. When he recovered he scarcely had time to start his plan with an attempt to distribute...
...itself distribution in Great Britain. Through RKO Export Corp., sub-subsidiary of Radio Corp., direct subsidiary of Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Inc., an arrangement was made with a British distributing company, Ideal Films, Ltd., to handle the 1929-30 output of Radio Pictures. Ideal Films, Ltd. is an affiliate of Gaumont, the British chain which controls more than 300 theatres in the most populous British cities...
British Cinema. The two largest organizations in British cinema last week merged to form a $70,000,000 unit controlling some 300 British theatres. Gaumont British Corporation acquired control of Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Ltd. Gaumont has been both producer and exhibitor; Provincial is solely an exhibition chain. Gaumont has a sound-picture device, called the "British acoustics system." There is also an Anglo-German "talkie," better than British "acoustics," comparable with the U.S. talking picture machines. Either British acoustics or the Anglo-German mechanism will presumably be installed in the Gaumont houses, to the exclusion of U.S. sound pictures...
...England, Gainsborough Pictures Ltd., one of the largest British cinema companies, discussed merger plans with the Gaumont Pictures Corp...