RUMOURED FILM BOYCOTT
AN INTERESTING POINT [ Per Press Association. ] DUNEDIN, Sept. !. Local motion picture interests show little concern over the rumoured boycott by the American film distributors. Ono exhibitor raised a new point, viz., the costly plant already installed. He asked: Was the Western Electric Corporation, which had hundreds of thousands of pounds worth unpaid for “talkie” equipment in New Zealand going to allow a boycott o fthis country which would mean that tho lessees of their plant would have nothing with which to make use of the equipment and money to pay for it? The position is that that the “talkie” equipment is hired to exhibitors for a period of 10 years at a cost of about £5OOO. Most of tho theatres pay that amount by means of annual sums, representing rent. Without films the exhibitors must bo unable to discharge that liability with the result that the corporation would suffer very heavy loss.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 360, 3 September 1930, Page 7
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