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considered overly strict. COMPETITION
It is estimated that competition among foreign countries is in the following order of importance: United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and Argentina. A tctal of about 418 feature-length films and approximately 500 shorts produced in the United States are estimated to have been exhibited in Mexico during 1937. It is estimated that at least 80 percent of the films exhibited in the country are American.
American films are well received. They are particularly popular in Mexico City and to a less extent in State capitals and other population centers. Easily they lead all foreign films. Nevertheless, the Mexican industry is improving the quality of its films, and this is particularly noticeable in professional technique and production facilities. Production methods have been considerably bettered by importation of more niodern equipment. There are three outstanding studios at which films are produced in Mexico. These are:
(a) Estudios y Laboratories Cinematograf icos "Mexico Films," F. Montes de Oca 117.
Tacubaya, D.F.
(b) Estudios Cinematograf icos Latino America, S.A., Kilometre 13 de la Calzada de Tlalpam. Mexico, D.F.
(c) Cia. Nacional Productora de Peliculas, S.A,, Paceo de la Reforraa 315,
Mexico, D.F.
The last-named is a cooperative organization composed of theater workers and executives, but is considered third in importance as yet. Producers of motion pictures rent the equipment of these studios in turning out films which they distribute either through their own distributing organizations or through several American or Mexican distributing entities. The American industry must face the problem of growing demand in Mexico for nationally produced films, which demand is in direct proportion to increased professional knowledge and technical skill. Formerly, in a number of regions an "interlocutor" was on hand at all exhibitions of films to read the sub-titlea to the audience. But this plan is not followed as much as formerly.
COPYRIGHT RELATIONS
Governed by Presidential Proclamation of February 27, 1886, and April 9, 1910. An additional copyright regulation was published in the Diario Oficial of April 16, 1924, and is also recorded on page 330, chapter VII, of the
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