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Zenith Radio, is now underway in the Chicago area. Break came when major distributors, prodded by the Dept. of Justice, which displayed keen interest in the conspiracy angle of denying product, agreed to furnish pic for the trials. Zenith system utilizes 'phone lines for transmittal, with an "unscrambler" on the receiving end — for a fee, of course. . . .
Eight major film companies are disclosed to have a total of only 150,000 stockholders, a figure well below that heretofore accepted by the industry. Fox-20th tops the list with 33,000 New RKO Theaters Corp., following reorganization after divorcement of production from exhibition, is expected to operate 97 theaters in the U.S., of which 85 will be wholly owned. . . . Representatives of 12 newspaper-owned Tv stations have decided to poll their resources and produce motion pictures for their exclusive home-town use, with syndication to papers in other areas . . . There will be no censorship of Tv films in N. Y. State. . . . Value of emergency standby power supply was demonstrated in past month, when a series of storms occasioned shutdowns and refunding of admission fees. * # *
American labor circles decry production of feature films in foreign lands just for the sake of unfreezing distributor capital in those countries. . . . Loew's has joined Warners and RKO in boosting downtown first-run theater prices by five cents. No patron opposition is reported. Next advances are slated for subsequent-run stands. . . . Legion of Decency, review board for Catholic Church, in the past year found 53% of foreign films "objectionable in whole or in part," while American flickers rated 20% in the same category. . . . RCA's latest demonstration of its color Tv system was credited with the following eight improvements: Improved color fidehty, improved picture texture, simpler circuits in receivers, picture brightness increased, an increase of
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FRANK LINGENFELSER, SecretaryTreasurer
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