FILM STARS TO ACT IN TELEVISION
Hollywood Company Plans To Manufacture Sets
(Received November 8, 7.30 p.m.)
HOLLYWOOD. November 7. Striking a sharp -blow at fears that television would injure the cinema industry, Paramount Pictures announced to-dav that it is starling immediately the manufacture of television sets and the establishment of stations across the continent. , Sets will cost 150 Io 200 dollars and give an image of 11 by 8 incites. Claudette Colbert and Dorothy Lamour will be the pioneer stars. .Mr. Stanton Griffis, chairman of Paramount, expressed the opinion that television would aid the picture industry by providing it new outlet for its ptoducts.
lie'envisaged the eventual telecasting into theatres where the images will be magnified to fill! theatre-screen size. He added that eventually two types ot film would be produced, one for theatres and a more intimate kind for homes.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 39, 9 November 1938, Page 11
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