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Show U. S. SENDS PICTURE FILMS TO SWEDEN STOCKHOLM, May 11. The first large consignment of American, English and French moving picture films reaching Sweden for many months has arrived. The long delay is said to have been due chiefly to the English export prohibition on films, a prohibition inspired by a desire to prevent films from reaching Germa n.v. The resumption of export, according to information given the Associated Press correspondent by promine.nt Swedes in the cinema business, come none too soon, speaking from the standpoint of the English. Eng-lish. American and French film Industries. The Germans took advantage of the opportunity op-portunity offered thorn and filled the Swedish theaters with their own films-Manv films-Manv theater owners who had used exclusively ex-clusively films from the three allied lands have found themselves obliged to present German films. |