Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1927, Page 12

HOVIE CONFERENCE AL N DEADLOCK _Block Booking and Uniformf; Contract Issues Unsettled ‘at Adjournment. Br the Associated Press. NEW TYORK, October 15—The motion picture trade conference called by the Federal Trade Commis- glon adjourned without date today after a week in which many minor resolutions were passed and the three | branches of the industry remained | in unbroken deadlock oh several im- | portant questions, | The conferance was called to af- ford the commission information on which it might base a code of ethics | admed at eradicating some of the al- | Yeged trade evils in the indu | oner Abram Mvers, Wt 1 today that the commis- ght be expected in slon's rep Bbout a_me | %ke chief points on which the pro- | ducers and distributors on one side! ard the exhibitors on the other could | for agree were block booking of | f!ms and a uniform contract for| films. Agreement Action Taken. Eric H. Palmer, jr., Brooklyn, N. Y., whose father Radio Commission to suspend his license because, he s: come sunken chested and weak-eyed hecause of his ma license was suspended. Eric has operated an amateur station for three months. | He is shown seated before his sef, where, according to his father, he trans- mits all night. THE SUNDAY TOO FOND OF RADIO, SAYS FATHER ested the Federal “the hoy has be- lor wireless.” The § 3 K bef A . ion e ke e evencontiy |WEDDED FIVE YEARS, | peaching agreement on these ques- #ons. A committee chosen from the | three branches was appointed 10 frame a tentative uniform contract | for submission to the commission and @ “declaration inciple” concern- i red by the dis- onally accepted | . who, however, re- { tributors was Dy the exhibitol HAS [ 0IGOURTIEIGHTS | s S et ey prin Los Angeles Man, Well Known b Suits, Asks Judge for Annulment. sorved the right to make further ! orrespondence of The Star. complaints. The distributors agreed block booking “for the accomplish- | ft L filed ment of a illegal purpose,” not to | force an exhibitor to buy the goods of | ona exhibitor in order to get the films of another, to permit an exhibitor to | cancel ordered films which he wou religious or racial reasons, an mit eancellation or not more per cent of a block for any reason on ! pavment of one-half the rental price. | i Block Buying Changes i The distributors also agreed not to | include reissues in blocks containing | new pictures, not to include news reels | and short subjects in blocks contain- | ing features and not to make pur- | chase of short subject blocks manda- | tory upon purchasers of feature blocks, | This declaration of policy was in | the main satisfactory to the exhibitors. | but was opposed by some who held | that they should be able to buy any one picture singly and that block | booking in_any form comprised co- | ercion and was an unfair trade | practice. | S, & i Bevard Will Is Fi.led. 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