We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
France cinema control commission
Import Regulation — Policies to Protect Domestic Producers. Beginning in 1927, the French government, in an effort to protect the native motion picture industry, began to place quota restrictions upon the importation of foreign films. In 1928, a cinema control commission created by the government made a recommendation, later adopted in a film decree, that a native producer selling a French film in a film-producing country would be authorized to release in France seven foreign films. A more stringent regulation recommended in March, 1929, aroused dissatisfaction, not only on the part of foreign producers, particularly those of the United States, but also on the part of French exhibitors who wished to show American films. Negotiations between representatives of the French government and of American producers finally led to settlement of the controversy by an agreement to return to the status quo of the seven-to-one quota.
(1927-1929)
The first attempt on the part of the French government to protect the native motion picture industry by quota restrictions on imports was made early in 1927, when a film decree placed into effect a " contingent" plan which provided import permits on the basis of nine foreign films for each domestic production. The plan was acceptable to the French producers but met with much remonstrance from the distributors and exhibitors. On February 19, 1928, a cinema control commission was created as an advisory committee to the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts. Its recommendations, adopted in a new film decree of May 9, 1928, provided, in principle, that a native producer who could prove the sale of a French film in a film-producing country would receive authorization to release in France seven foreign films. Much dissatisfaction with this provision arose, and a series of problems and decisions followed, in which United States motion picture exporters were substantially involved.
In September, 1929, an agreement between representatives of the motion picture industries of France and America ended a controversy over quota restrictions on the importation of Ameri
454