Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal Laboratories, Inc. Pittsburgh...
...will continue until September, they had seen and judged by last week some 1,500 motion pictures and expect to see several hundred more. What they propose to accomplish by this labor, undertaken for an advisory committee of Will Hays's Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., is the first complete report on the educational possibilities of the U. S. commercial cinema...
...Nevertheless, of the 10,000 "educational" films now catalogued and available in the U. S. the overwhelming majority are dull, amateurish, or technically obsolete. Of the two biggest professional producers. Eastman Kodak Co. has manufactured since 1926 some 200 silent films on historical and scientific subjects, Electrical Research Products Inc. a scanty 40 sound films. Most Hollywood producers think that the effective market is too small for profit. Of the 300,000 schoolhouses in the land, only 10,000 have 16 mm. projectors and of these less than 700 are equipped for sound. With too few films to encourage...
Died. John Luther ("Jack") Maddux, 49, president of Transcontinental Air Transport Inc.; of a heart attack; in New York...
Present owner-president of R. M. Smythe, Inc. is German-born Otto Peretz Schwarzschild, bald, brown-eyed, proud of the fact that the Schwarzschilds and the Rothschilds-were for generations neighboring banking families of Frankfurt-am-Main. Founder in 1928 of National Statistical Service, Inc., Mr. Schwarzschild still supervises the annual publication of famed, authoritative American Underwriting Houses and Their Issues. Believing that the obsolete security business begun by Mr. Smythe needs to get beyond Wall Street and the Produce Exchange into the attics and safe-deposit boxes throughout the East, Mr. Schwarzschild last week announced a campaign to arouse...