Word: telefilms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SUPERMARKET TV will be started by National Telefilm Associates in 400 New York-area stores on Nov. 1. Plan calls for installation of eight TV sets in each supermarket to plug stores' products...
Coming to the U.S. in 1956, Chesler bought a major interest in a company, which then acquired the Warner Bros, film library for TV and became Associated Artists Productions Corp. After a boardroom battle, Chesler signed a deal to sell 820,000 shares of Associated to National Telefilm Associates, Inc., though he controlled only 400,000 shares; later Chesler backed off and sold for a higher price to United Artists. To end a court fight, United Artists later paid $2,000,000 to N.T.A. The deal hurt Chesler's reputation on Wall Street-but it did not halt...
...Aviation, 50-kw. reactor will go to Japan for use in research. AEC will follow with export licenses for reactors to West Germany, The Netherlands and Brazil. 20TH CENTURY-FOX, second biggest U.S. moviemaker, is moving solidly into television's camp. For $30 million, Fox has given National Telefilm Associates rights to distribute 390 of Fox's best-known pre-1948 films (Laura, The Razor's Edge, Gentleman's Agreement, etc.) over network of 112 U.S. TV stations. In addition, Fox gets 50% interest in Telefilm's film network. Deal assures Fox nationwide distribution...
...setting a dangerous precedent. Topflight movies are now available to all of the 430 TV stations in the U.S.; within the past year all but two major studios (Paramount and Universal-International) have sold old films to TV. Last week 20th Century-Fox leased to National Telefilm Associates, which has tie-ins with some no stations throughout the U.S., a $30 million backlog of 390 feature films. If Oz had been presented locally in only a handful of cities across the nation, it would have clobbered such a top-rated TV show as CBS's $64,000 Question...
20TH CENTURY-FOX movies will appear on TV. For $2,000,000 plus a percentage of all income over $75,000 per picture, Fox will lease 52 films, many first-rank (Les Miserables, Ox-Bow Incident, How Green Was My Valley), to National Telefilm Associates for showing in U.S. and Canada...