THEATRE TELEVISION
FILM COMPANY’S BAN PROPOSALS IX BRITAIN LONDON, July li. "The public probably will never see its favourate film stars by television,” the managing-director in London of Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr, Mr. Sam Eokman, stated. "None of our stars and none of cur films, new or old, will be televised in anv circumstances."
It is expected that other film companies will follow this lead. The former Paramount Corporation chief consulting engineer, Major C. It. Bell, in a speech at a cinema managers’ conference? at Blackpool, said that television would be available for everyone in Britain within, five venrs.
The conference discussed a £G,COO,000 plan, to install television in theatres all over Britain.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19987, 12 July 1939, Page 6
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