AMERICAN FILM DUMPING TO CEASE
Received hlonday, 7 p.m. WASH1NGTON, Dec. 22. d'wo or three years will see the end of the dumping of inferior American lilms abroail, according to a filin indusfry spokesman, who was testifying be I'oVe a House of Kepresentativos subcoinnvittee on foreign trade. Mr. Eugene Worlev, the Demoerat chairman of tlie conimittee, read reports blaming Hollywood for portraying the United Btates as "an nation of morons and gang sters". Tho lilm spokesman asserted that the industr.y had already begun to weed out filnis unsuitable for export, but its efforts so far had been directed exclusively towards countries with Btate monopolies over motion pietures. Those countries, especiallv Kussia, had restricted imports of American cominercial films to "prevent the expansion of the American way of life". A State Department witness said tliat Uussia, despite repeated representations, would not admit American doeumentarv iilms.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 December 1946, Page 5
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