MURDER MYSTERY melodrama, made with undisguised austerity. It concerns a young solic'itor who busts a dope ring run by an unscrupulous probation officer and prevents a grave miscarriage of justice. The players work hard and the director, too, rolls up his sleeves, but a ramshack

JNTEST linked with local newspapers can high-powered showmanship when the offered encourage a large entry. R. ABC, Birmingham, had a most for " Li'l Abner," in which a holiday jorca was the main prize. Readers were I to write saying why they thought their s or grandparents shoul

e committee has adopted the proceedn„ e he finance and management committee •riously the same morning at which, amo ng other matters, it was agreed to renew t he A iciation's contribution to the London Chaint r of Commerce. he committee has received the report of t h e jo . comm

There was a &cline in the screening of programmes of U.S origin, neither ITV nor the BBC used up their full quota entitlement. This was due partly to Parliamentary criticism and partly because many of American programmes distributed this year were of poor quality. The ITV compan

DENNIS HOPTON has been appointed branch manager at Cardiff for Dyro Films, the joint selling organisation for Walt Disney Productions and Renown Pictures. Mr. Hopton previousl y represented Dyro at Leeds. Sydney Phipps, formerly with United Artists. has been engaged as salesman

A NEW film association to "promo e study, practice and knowledge of the art , f anematography " has been formed with quarters in Manchester. It will be known . Members of the association council are: P WaHcer, Matthew Faulds, Michael GrigsbY, .n Thompson. Peter Plummer, Maurice

THE Itali'm film. I ed:rico F:llini. Li Dolce Vita. - set a high gross. with record husirwss in it. first week of London premiere presentation it is playing concurrently In the Columbia Theltrc. Shaft.shury - Avntie. thc Curzon Th.., itr:. Mayfair. La Do:ce whi:h won the Golden

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-- ramiPAto. WHAT happened to the tele‘ision industry in 1960? In %hat direction %ill it move in 1961? The first question can be summed up simply. The year was a marking time period both for programme contractors and the BBC. It was a year in which the two networks were forced by

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