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FILM-SCOPE continued
A documentary on Chicago filmed originally by Fred Niles for S&H Green Stamps, has been getting plenty of unexpected extra mileage.
The state department has picked it up as an information film on Chicago and it will be seen on commercial networks in Great Britain. The film has already played in South America and Germany.
And here's a parallel happening: Douglas Baker, v. p. of Van Praag, has taken five weeks' leave to direct motion pictures on Latin America for the State Department.
Screen Gems apparently likes the Cellomatic technique (it used it in its stockholder's meetings) so much it has acquired the Cellomatic Corporation.
The technique is used by tv stations, networks, and producers, and has extensive other audio-visual use.
The acquisition is one of a series of diversification moves by Screen Gems over the past few years. The others were commercials producer Elliot, Unger & Elliot; research subsidiary Audience Studies, and station and production interests in Canada and Puerto Rico.
MGM-TV now has 12 series in various stages of production, more than that studio has ever had before.
On the air and in production are Cain's Hundred, Dr. Kildare, Father of the Bride, and National Velvet. Three pilots being finished up and Johnny Dollar, The Search, and The Eleventh Hour. Two new shows beginning filming are 333 Montgomery and Hercule Poirot. Others starting filming are The Human Comedy and Andy Hardy. MGM also has a British co-production with BBC, Zero One.
WASHINGTON WEEK
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not enough, he said. The all-channel legislation will permit uhf to compete with vhf, but without it the necessity would arise to give urgent consideration to an all-uhf system.
That was his reasoning, and in view of past refusal of Congress to pass such legislation, the speech was indeed threatening. Some Congressmen doubt the constitutionality of such a directive to set manufacturers, though Minow said he believed the idea to be perfectly legal.
There is no doubt that in view of this strong statement, Senate and House Commerce Committees will really try to push the proposed measure. However, Congress as a whole must be considered, and constitutional reservations might persist. At one time, both House and Senate Commerce Committees were pushing for Congressional passage of a bill to eliminate excise taxes on all-channel sets.
The House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over tax matters and which was told this was a way to equalize cost of all-channel with the cheaper vhf-only sets, turned a completely deaf ear. Officially, no action was taken at all. Off the record, the members said they doubted they had the power to pass what might be considered tax legislation discriminatory as between competing products.
This sort of thinking is the same, but much magnified, in the case of a bill aiming to tell manufacturers what they can produce and sell.
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