Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Atlanta's federal district court trooped legal representatives of Independent Producer Louis de Rochemont, who helped launch the "Negro-problem" movie cycle with his Lost Boundaries (TIME, July 4), and Film Classics, Inc., the picture's distributor. They asked for 1) an injunction against last summer's ban on the film by Atlanta censors (who found that it would "adversely affect the peace, morals and good order" of the city); and 2) a ruling that Atlanta's censorship laws violate the U.S. Constitution...
...stuck when the film's distributor, George I. Shafir of Manhattan, refused to contest it. In their annual report, the stubborn censors were still defending their decision: "Certainly the screen is no place for documentary subjects that are presented without truth and sincerity, and the sooner the board is enabled to cope with such abuses beyond legal .doubt, the better...
...producers like Rank (Henry V, Hamlet), the sureseaters have been a bonanza. Eagle Lion, distributor of Rank's The Red Shoes, has grossed more from its 40-week run in Philadelphia's Trans-Lux than from all its other pictures in Philadelphia theaters during the same period. Better still, less receipts have to be splurged on costly ballyhoo; a sureseater hit automatically woos the kind of audience that is eager to seek out a good film...
...rate, our Argentine distributor saw the Director General of Customs, who said that his orders to ban TIME had come down from the Ministry of Finance. Our Buenos Aires Correspondent (at that time, William Johnson) talked to the Subsecretariat of Information and Press, which denied all responsibility for the ban or even knowing about it. Johnson then saw James Bruce, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, who promised to help, and Diego Luis Molinari, president of the Argentine Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, who got him an appointment with Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia. The Foreign Minister agreed that "some solution...
...legal staff is still negotiating with United World Films, another distributor, which also stopped renting films to the HLU when the University Theater protested that the Liberal Union Film Series was "unfair competition...