Report of SMPE Progress Committee

Any Review of Progress within the motion picture industry during 1948 must take into account the much greater progress of television throughout that period. The phenomenal rise of the new medium of entertainment is a social change, which affects not only motion pictures but all other forms of entertainment and education. The year was marked by a series of dire predictions as to the closing of thousands of motion picture theaters, along with estimates of the millions of feet of film required for presenting television programs by means of motion pictures. It was therefore natural that these changes at home, together with limitations on the world-wide exchange of films, created a condition of economic uncertainty which influenced, technical developments, installations, and operations.

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Published
1949-05
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J12496