Word: rko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of theater protests, Universal Films and RKO Radio Pictures, distributors of 16mm, films to the HLU, cut off their supply of prints. Movies which were dropped were "The Informer," "Odd Man Out," "Great Expectations," "Citizen Kane," and "Room Service...
...first protest came after the HLU's performance of Citizen Kane which attracted over 1600 persons. The University Theater management complained to RKO that this constituted competition...
...RKO then withdrew permission for HLU to show its films. Later Unite World refused to distribute certain of its prints to the Film Series...
...Dear to My Heart (Walt Disney; RKO Radio), a sugary version of Sterling North's novel about an Indiana backwoods boyhood, is short on realism but long on entertainment. Jeremiah (Bobby Driscoll) and his little black lamb are good for a few laughs and tears, but the story is mainly useful as an excuse for Burl Ives's ballads and Walt Disney's cartoons...
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...