FILMS ON TV
Contracts With Hollywood (HI -P-A.-Reuter) NEW YORK. Relief is in sight for television viewers weary of watching Grets Garbo, Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy in the same 35-year-old flhn epics. Hollywood is about'to release to television some of the better films made in the past decade. Viewers around the world will soon be seeing on their home screens such films as "Mogambo," "The Cain Mutiny." "Hie Barefoot Contessa." The terms of the contracts made with the television networks vary from picture to picture. The Coloumbia Broadcasting System’s agreement gives rights to each film for seven years. Television can show a top film to 30,000,000 viewers at one showing, while an average feature is see only by an estimated 8.000,000, during its entire theatrical run.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29497, 26 April 1961, Page 21
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127FILMS ON TV Press, Volume C, Issue 29497, 26 April 1961, Page 21
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