Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this as it may, the fact remains that Victor controls the German patents to the film process of recording, a means of recording on film and reproducing via light waves and photo-electric cells--something like a movie sound track. This may be wild day-dreaming, but isn't it possible that Victor is starting this line to demolish competition in the field, and realizing that it will probably injure its own Red Seal irreparably as well, doesn't particularly care, because it intends to switch in a few years to the film process anyway, which completely eliminates needle-scratch...
...other words, record merchandising may be at a saturation-point now; Victor is shifting to a larger mass production which will more quickly reach saturation and provide a larger base for a later shift to the film medium...
...Black Label record--unless that new medium would provide a market for itself and later developments which would make it profitable. Black Label and Red Seal don't seem compatible. Black Label can exist only at over doubled volume--which Victor can't handle with its present facilities. The film process can be adapted to handle itself and the old method--consequently where the woodpile and who's going...
...this film version of a Pulitzer prize play is an authentic, moving account of how a sluggish rail-splitter turned President. Hollywood has withstood the temptation to be spectacularly patriotic; and the result is one of those rare historical pictures which are devoid of all furor and fuss...
Florian (M. G. M.). Lovers of fine horses may or may not enjoy seeing Robert Young somewhat gingerly ride a superb Lipizzan stallion (Florian) through this filming of an Austrian Black Beauty story by Felix Salten. They can scarcely fail to admire the stallion, who, with Charles Coburn (a sage village doctor), gives the best performance in an otherwise one-horse film...