0 a short film that consists of news reports, usually one that was made in the past for showing in a cinema: --
And the earnings of the remaining films, full-length first features and newsreels, are brought in as they stand.
Thus, short films, other than newsreels, have their commercial earnings multiplied by two and a half times for the purpose of calculating their entitlement.
The two companies which own and produce the newsreels are far from being poor companies.
He suggested that the newsreels were excluded from levy in the past because they were prosperous.
There was no dispute that the playing of this march upon a cinematograph newsreel was a public performance.
The old-style black and white newsreels were badly hit by the competition of news broadcast on television and three of the five newsreels were discontinued.
The majority of cinema exhibitors are not showing newsreels for a very simple reason—because they are not news.
That is no doubt the main reason why the exhibitors feel that the public do not want to see newsreels.
