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jects, as well as two. new sports subjects— Here Comes Malicious, a horse racing film, and Chinook's Children, which is based on raising and breeding champion sled dogs, descendants of Admiral Byrd's arctic dog. Chinook.
Pictoreel's nature series has another dramatic underseas story. Demons of the Deep, which is climaxed by an exciting battle between an octopus and an eel. In the travel category, two recent releases deal with countries in the news, Norway and Holland.
A new catalog is now ready, listing all the current 16mm. sound films, short subjects and features, which are distributed exclusively by Pictorial Films, and it is available to anybody requesting it.
Washington film news
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Of the nine countries getting lend leased film, Russia got the largest amount. Other countries getting film were India. Australia. Great Britain. Egypt, South Africa, China, New Zealand and Surinam (Dutch Guiana, South America).
The total film lend leased during this two and a half year period is less than any one of the seven largest Hollywood studios is allowed by the War Production Board for a three month period.
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Add war casualties: billboard advertising of movies is "out for the duration," because of the paper shortage. Madam Curie is the last movie to be heralded on large billboards.
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Because it appears that the industrial war boom in the South will largely remain after the war, several major theatre chains are discreetly investigating Southern cities as possibilities for post war theatre construction.
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The Office of War Information is seeking to establish the part that 16mm. is playing in the war. They are asking for "photographs of war film meetings or forums" and newspaper accounts of such meetings, or of other instances where 16mm. helped the war. If you have any, they will be glad to get them. Address OWI Motion Picture Bureau, Washington, D. C.
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The American Marketing Association announced recently that home television currently has an audience of eight persons for each set owned.
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Loud rumors here indicate that film rentals may come under Office of Price Administration control. We are listening for a howl from the industry if this should happen.
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