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BRITISH COMBINE TO BREAX U.S, DOMINATION OF FILMS. EXTORTIONATE CHARGES. LONDON, 'Saturday. Seeking to escape from the stranglehold of American comhines, independent British exhibitors are forming a Film Industries Co-operative Society, with the ohject of obtaining better terms from Hollywood. The president (Mr. Cornyn Carr, K.C.) revealed that 200 exhibitors were bankrupted in 1931, and many were now on the verge of bankruptcy, owing to the extortionate charges of American "renters," who buy up the cinemas forced out of business. The society hopes to widen the demand for British films, thereby enabling them _ to equal Hollywood's technical excellence. The Manchester Guardian, in welcoming the society, instances the success of similar co-operation in Canada, where a Royal Commission revealed that one Anierican combine had controlled cinemas in all the important centres before the formation oi the society.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 November 1931, Page 2
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