Cinema: Newsreel, Nov. 7, 1955

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¶Prosperity-in-Hollywood note: encouraged by recent strong box-office returns, movie producers have upped production, at year's end will have turned out more than 250 feature films, the heaviest schedule and highest investment in three years.

¶One of the famous names in British films went out of business when Ealing Studios (Tight Little Island, The Man in the White Suit) was sold to the BBC for £400.000 ($1,120,000). BBC will go into moviemaking for TV on a huge scale.

¶The Supreme Court wrote a death notice for state censorship when it denied Kansas' contention that the state could ban the movie The Moon Is Blue as obscene. The ruling means that the five state boards (New York, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kansas) now exist in name only.

¶Memphis' famed 88-year-old Movie Censor Lloyd T. Binford announced that his 27-year reign will end when his term expires on Jan. 1. Binford banned Ingrid Bergman films after she married Roberto Rosselini, all Chaplin movies, any picture he thought had too much sex in it, almost any film portraying Negroes in other than servile roles, any movie depicting a railroad robber (he was once on a train that was robbed). "The way it looks, there may not be any censor boards soon," he said morosely. "We try to do what the public demands, and the public is getting more liberal all the time."