I came across an interesting letter in the January 1974 issue, in response to some comments made the previous month, about Paramount only issuing shorts in B&W and silent. The letter was from one of the executives of Mountain Films, saying that they have offered a lot of money to be able to buy titles and release them in both B&W and Colour versions with sound. They have been refused. Saying that most of the major companies say that package movies interfere with cinema going.

If only they knew what they'd face a decade on!

I didn't go to the cinema so often in the 70s and 80s because there wasn't a lot that appealed to me. Television was the threat to cinema going, not package movies.