Television
Sir, — A very . knowledgeable correspondent has just written, from Devon, of the effects of TV ip-England. Weekly cinema attendance, op a national basis, .haa dropped since the war from 30 to 16 million. Up and down , the land the cinema lights are going out, and he quotes small places' like Barnstaple, Teignmouth, Bovey Tracey, Appledore, as being particularly hard hit; while Exeter itself (population about 100,000) faces a reduction in its quota, meagre enough, of four cinema houses. Such in England, as it may well be here, is one of the effects of the “Idiots Lantern” on. popular taste. —Yours, etc., , M.T. February 16, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28822, 17 February 1959, Page 3
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