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Well, the big advantages to give a guide, a movie audience guide to parents so that parents instantly know the content of the material in a particular picture. It has nothing to do with the quality of a picture. You understand all the lack of it. It merely

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says we are raiding a picture uh by the material in it. To inform and to be an advisory to parents. Yesterday. Mr walter reed Jr, one of the country's leading motion picture exhibitors and distributors said the new code was impractical and undesirable. What's your reaction to

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that? Well, everything that people don't agree on, everything Mr rita's opinion, But he is the only owner of a large chain in the United States, the only one who takes that attitude here in San Francisco, the leading exhibitors representing over 10-11,000 theaters have gone on record

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as being overwhelmingly unanimously in favor of this plan. And it's rational good sense. Mr Reed is the lone center. MS. Welch. What do you as a performer think about the new code? Well, I kind of generally feel that it's an ounce of prevention at a at

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a time when the political climate might tend to give us a conservative backlash that will be very constricting in the industry. So I think that the code Being a self exercised one and that the classifications are not that uh terribly constrictive, I think that it's a

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good effort in that direction. It's a responsible effort on the part of the theater owners and I think that basically is very good