Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quiet One (Film Documents; Mayer-Burstyn) is a shoestring documentary which ties up a big subject in a compact package. Produced as a 16-mm. film at a cost of $28,000, this gentle study of a childhood tragedy has stirred such enthusiasm among preview audiences and potential exhibitors that it has been blown up to standard 35-mm. size and will be distributed nationally...
Last week RKO Radio Films Inc. refused to lease HLU any more 16 mm films which would compete with local movie theatres using 35 mm film. This decision resulted in cancellation of scheduled showings of "The Informer" and "Room Service...
Agreements between theatres and distributors allow distributors to stop releasing 16 mm films to groups which might compete with local movie houses. Gootenberg pointed out, however, that HLU had signed a contract this fall with United World to rent...
Contracts between RKO and Universal and the University Theater state that the distributors will not rent any 16 mm films for showings which may compete with the Harvard Square theater...
...recording both pictures and sound on a single 16-mm. film instead of recording them separately, as before, ABC and RCA expect to cut recording costs from $225 to $60 for a half-hour show...