Picture Film Release
PROTESTS AGAINST DELAY. LONDON, April 29. » . A further step in the campaign against the practice of withholding the cinematograph films from the public for sometimes many months was taken at a meeting of tho special committee of the Cinematograph Exhibitors’ Association last night which passed a resolution declaring tiiat no more films should he booked unless released before .August 315 t.,, 1922.
Other resolutions were: That filins should be released within six months of being shown to exhibitors; that there should be no more ‘‘block-booking” or hiring of blocks of poor filins in order to secure one good one; and that no new pictures should be booked for dates already fixed for other films.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1921, Page 3
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117Picture Film Release Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1921, Page 3
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