THEFT OF FILMS
COST TO GREAT BRITAIN. Organised thefts of valuable films cost the British film industry thousands of pounds a year. Two films, one worth £lOO,OOO and the other £50,000, were stolen only a few weeks ago from the safes of Associated Film Producers, Ltd., in Manchester. It is believed that, as in past cases, these two pictures have been smuggled out of the country for exhibition abroad. “That is their usual fate,” an official of the Kinematograph Renters’ Society told a reporter. “Tremendous difficulties confront us when we try to trace them. “That is their usual fate,” an official of the Kinematograph Renters’ Society told a reporter. “Tremendous difficulties confront us when we try to trace them. , “It is practically impossible to check up on them in the ordinary way, and we can only rely on the information sent to us by exhibitors abroad.” The actual value of the stolen- film itself is slight. Copies can be made for about £3O to £4O, and can be issued to cinemas in the ordinary way. But the thieves also make copies and show them under changed titles in Europe. Rental fees are thus evaded, and every time the picture is shown the ; producers and distributors lose hundreds of pounds. Some years ago the police carried out an extensive round-up of receivers and, in co-operation with the French and German authorities, check- - ed the traffic. “But it still, goes on,” the reporter was told, “and apart from vigilance at the docks, at the storage centres and elsewhere, it is very difficult to stop the racket entirely.” j
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1938, Page 2
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