U.S. FILM ROYALTIES.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 1. Payments , made to tlie United States in respect of royalties on Arnerican fiims exhibited in the United Kingdom probably amounted in 1936 to about £6 000,000, according to a statement in the House of Commons by the President of the Board of ’1 rade, Mr Oliver Stanley, who added that one effect of the Films Act of 1927 had been to reduce the proportion of cinema receipts accruing to renters of United States films.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 3 June 1937, Page 9
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83U.S. FILM ROYALTIES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 3 June 1937, Page 9
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