Cinema: Newsreel, Nov. 7, 1955

¶Prosperity-in-Hollywood note: encouraged by recent strong box-office returns, movie producers have upped production, at year's end will have turned out more than 250 feature films, the heaviest schedule and highest investment in three years.

¶One of the famous names in British films went out of business when Ealing Studios (Tight Little Island, The Man in the White Suit) was sold to the BBC for £400.000 ($1,120,000). BBC will go into moviemaking for TV on a huge scale.

¶The Supreme Court wrote a death notice for state censorship when it denied Kansas' contention that the state could ban the movie The...

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