Cumberland Evening Times from Cumberland, Maryland • Page 11

Columbia Pictures To Install Cartride Video, Closed Circuit TV In Nine Hotels cartridge circuit rooms. A division Trans-World has signed ICK DU BROW OOD (UPl)-G'olum- Industries Inc. has steps to take advan- polenlial market for video and closed- levision to hotel of the company, I Communications, an agreement to loscd-circuil services in nine Loews holels New York City and Miami Beach and D.C. The services, whi installations in more hotel rooms under ment, are described by Columbia: "Tele-Theatre, transmits current individual rooms which is added to in eh involve than 5,000 the agree- i movies into a fee hotel bill." which sends into the rooms "a sponsored film designed lo acquainl guests with the attractions of the city in which they are slaying." Various Events "close' designed, locked rewind sys- tem," said Ihe announcement, 'limits customers lo only one showing for each rental fee." circuits various into events' rooms the of conventions being held at the hotel." As for its other step, Columbia announced earlier, with Cartridge Television "a joint venture to distribute rental videotape cartridges for individual viewers throughout the world." Plans for the new firm, Cartridge Rental called for the establishment of 51 area distributorships in the continental United States, and for movies and "other special programs" to be the initial basis of their rental libraries. At the start, said Columbia and Cartridge Television, pro- gramming would be contained in a unit called the Cartrivision "Red Cartridge," described as Among available, the Hhe first movies announcement added, are "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "High Noon," "Dr.