HLU Announces Revision of Spring Film Series Schedule

Despite pressure on film distributors from local theaters, the Liberal Union has scheduled a list of movies for its film series this spring, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, former HLU president, announced yesterday.

This spring's program will include "Shoe Shine," "Odd Man Out," "Ivan the Terrible," "The Long Voyage Home," "Topper," "Grand Illusion," and several Chaplin films.

In its seventh consecutive season, the Film Series will provide uninterrupted showings the group only had one projector. But his year Ivy Films will rent two projectors and improved sound equipment to the HLU, so cameras will not have to be stopped to change reels.

Because of theater protests, Universal Films and RKO Radio Pictures, distributors of 16mm, films to the HLU, cut off their supply of prints. Movies which were dropped were "The Informer," "Odd Man Out," "Great Expectations," "Citizen Kane," and "Room Service."

Gootonberg said that the HLU was able to find another distributor who supplied them with "Odd Man Out." The theater managers did not object to foreign films like "Shoe Shine" or "Ivan the Terrible."

Theater managers based their protects on contracts which they had signed with film distributors. The agreement stated that theaters showing 35mm, prints did not have to compete with non-theatrical enterprises using 16mm.

The first protest came after the HLU's performance of Citizen Kane which attracted over 1600 persons. The University Theater management complained to RKO that this constituted competition.

RKO then withdrew permission for HLU to show its films. Later Unite World refused to distribute certain of its prints to the Film Series.