The Cure Clippings 67/70
Variety, New York, July 11, 1919.
Ben Blumenthal, president Export and Import
Film Company, New York
(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, May 22, 1920, detail
& BEN BLUMENTHAL, SAMUEL RACHMANN
and
HAMILTON THEATRICAL CORPORATION
Ben Blumenthal, President
ANNOUNCE
that they control for the United States, Canada,
Great Britain – its Dominions and Colonies –
the entire output and all productions produced and to be
produced by the
UNIVERSUM FILM AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
of Berlin
(...) Exhibitors Herald, Dec. 24, 1921
& Further Details From Atlantic Co. Awaited
Detailed statement of the plans of the Atlantic Cinema
Company‘s plans, the organization recently formed
to export pictures to Germany, Austria, Poland and other
countries, is not yet forthcoming. It is considered
significant however that Mr. Blumenthal, president of the
concern, has been abroad since the armistice was
signed, making his home on neutral soil in Denmark. On his
return for a visit in the near future, it is expected
that the intention of the Atlantic company will be revealed
in detail.
(...) Motion Picture News, July 19, 1919
& Foreign Film Invasion To Be Conducted by Corporation
Recently Formed in America
COINCIDENT with the announcement of the signing
of the final papers of the peace treaty comes the
statement that an organization of film men is waiting to
invade Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czecho, Slovak,
Jungo-Slovak and other Balkan states, as well as Poland and
Russia, with American-made motion pictures. The new
corporation, which was formed in New York recently, carries the incorporate name of the Atlantic Cinema Corporation. (...)
The company has also contracted, according
to report, for all of the Charles Chaplin comedies that have
been made and released by that star while he was
with the Mutual and for his later releases through the First
National Exhibitors‘ Circuit.
(...) Moving Picture World, July 12, 1919
„Will be in the first shipments made for abroad“
Editorial content. „Tremendous Export DeaL.
$20,000,000 in films, all American made,
ready to be dumped into Germany, Austria, Russia, the Jugo
and Czecho States, Poland, the Balkan States and
Hungary. For several months past, ever since the signing
of the armistice, there have been signs of activity
in the foreign rights for these countries, but the details of the
deals that were being put over by the film men who
were working in the background, did not fully come to light
until the signing of peace.
The corporation handling the rights for the European
countries is the Atlantic Cinema Corporation, the
officers of which are Benj. Blumenthal, of the Import and Export
Co., as president; William M. Vogel, vice-president
and treasurer, and Samuel Rachmann, the German impressario,
who has been in this country for a number of years.“ (...)
„The Charles Chaplin comedies that were made
by the Mutual and product of the First National are contracted
for and will be in the first shipments made for abroad.“ (...)
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