AMERICAN FILMS
BOYCOTT NOT FEARED
(By Tele graph-- Per Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, September 2. .■'* Local motion-picture interests show little concern over the rumoured boy*cott by American film distributors. yOhe exhibitor raised a new point, namely, tlie'costly plant already, installed. He asked, was the Western Electric Corporation, which had himdrMs of, thousands of pounds worth of talkie equipment in New Zealand unpaid for, going to allow a boycott of this country, which would mean that the lessees of their plant would have ndthiiig with which to make use of the equipment and make money to pay for .it?
The position is that talkie equiptiment is hired to exhibitors for a period <*df ten years at a cost of about ,£SOOO. Most theatres pay that amount by Vn'dans of annual sums representing yegt.Without films the exhibitors must be unable to discharge that liability, . with the result that the corporation ’ would sniffer a very heavy loss.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1930, Page 3
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