0 someone who has made or owns something, especially a work of art, shown in an exhibition: --
1 a person or company that shows their work or products at an exhibition: --
At that time the distributors and exhibitors felt that the people in the south would not understand the film.
I am sure that great sighs of relief will be heaved by many ordinary exhibitors.
Those exhibitors have always pleaded poverty, with a certain amount of justification.
Moreover, we surmise from the local character of the firms and organizations presenting themselves at the fair that most exhibitors were not working on exhibitions on a daily basis.
Through ownership of theaters or block-booking agreements, which required exhibitors to rent several movies from a studio to secure the rental of a desired film, they also controlled exhibitions.
He also found that clearance provisions stipulating when exhibitors could show movies stifled competition and restricted the exhibitors' ability to compete.
Other reasons given were the loss of face it was felt the city would encounter, and the apparent rudeness to the exhibitors.
They wanted to ensure the respectability that came from not having a production censored, and they wanted to reassure the exhibitors of its noncontroversial quality.