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Video market expands
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United Press International
NEW YORK — After a long ca
reer in the record business, Cy Leslie
says he has a feeling of deja vu in his
new job as head of MGM-UA Home
Video.
“The parallels with the record
business are uncanny,” he said. “The
new rules for home video are the re
cord rules.”
With 14,000 retailers selling home
video cassettes these days, home vi
deo is now where the record busi
ness was after World War II, Leslie
said.
“It was a modest start-up world,”
he said. “You had entrepreneurs,
mom and pop stores.”
The parallels will continue as
home video experiences an eventual
shakeout that will eliminate margi
nal retailers and “those less able to
merchandise wisely,” he predicted.
“You can’t sustain everyone who
wants to be in the business,” Leslie
said.
MGM-UA Home Video is a sub
sidiary of MGM-UA Entertainment
Go. But in 1982, the parent com
pany offered 15 percent of its stock
in the business for sale in order to
help reduce its debt.
Leslie’s firm has all rights to
MGM-UA material for sale to pay
television, home video cassettes and
non-theatrical rentals, such as
schools and libraries. Its character li
censing business includes the fa
mous “Pink Panther” character.
In his earlier career, Leslie saw re
cord sales jump from an initial $200
million a year right after the war to
$4 billion a year in 1977.
“But this business is growing at a
much faster clip,” he said.
At the end of 1983, there were 9
million videocassette recorders in
use in the nation. That is expected to
jump to 16 million by the end 1984,
and to as many as 24 million in 1985.
“You’re creating a totally new au
dience every year,” he said. Initially,
he added, people bought VCRs to
record television programs for later
viewing.
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“Now, the major interest is mov
ies,” he claimed.
Movies generally become available
for cassette sales after a 6-month run
in theaters. Then the cassettes have a
6-month exclusive “window” before
the films begin to run on pay tele
vision. After another year and a half,
the films are available for network
television release.
at $79.95. But “Braimtornfi
rental movie while “Space OJn p
has become something of a
tor’s item.
Many movies like “Brainsif^j
the science fiction film starrii*
late Natalie Wood, do well:-1
rentals after an undistinguisliftjfc ^jok
at the movie hmises, Leslif||vj f t
There are apparently many p J|° en ;
that are not tempting enough igH
people out of their houses,biijl* i to | a
enough appeal to merit the Jr ^ j
mem of a few dollars in rental [J } i to ,
When MGM-UA issued aM.-u (
the Home Video subsidiary,s*j^ vers
mated the value of its
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old films at $200 million. TlyBr s i
log of older films has beenatjftjP or
tfaction, Leslie said, with gooe|L j„ y ;
'•■’nging from “Tht®’ ”
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“Then they syndicate it, then it
comes back to us,” Leslie said.
The public is ten times more likely
to rent a video for one night or a
weekend than to buy it for perma
nent use, Leslie said. While prices
probably will come down on films
that have a large potential stiles audi
ence, he said, “when you expect a
greater universe of renters, that’s
not likely to happen.”
Both “2001, A Space Odyssey
on movies ra
ai d of Oz” to “Soylent Green,
But the real biggie in theiJ
UA library is yet to make it (I
home video mar ket.
‘“Gone With the Wind’-iJ
what you could do with that,!
said. “We’ve got a brandneil
ative, never used," he said. “It J
make an excellent color filtJ
to the most expensive conieni]
production.”
Discussions about what loth
the film, however, are si a
early stages. Leslie said it is
early" to predict when “Gw
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Scientists investigate drug
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — A persistent
cough, labored or quick breathing
and the feeling of never getting
enough air are the hallmarks of em
physema, a disease for which there is
no treatment and no cure.
Smoking is considered a major
cause of tne disease, which afflicts
more than 2.4 million Americans.
Lor inherited emphysema suffer
ers, the relatively small number who
develop the disease early in life re
gardless of whether they smoke, a
drug under investigation by several
groups may be effective in halting
the progressive lung damage that
causes the symptoms.
for now, however, patients are
stuck with treatments that help clear
their lungs and help them breathe.
They must minimize exposure to ir
ritants which may accelerate lung
damage.
Emphysema is the gradual de
struction of elasticity in air sacs in
the lungs so that they are less and
less able to expel stale air. Patients
must breathe harder or faster with
remaining healthy air sacs to get
enough oxygen.
The disorder, which shortens life
by 10 to 20 years, afflicts mostly
those over age 50 who smoke. About
20,000 to 40,000 develop emphy
sema at age 30 or 40 because of ge
netic factors.
Two factors are important in the
development of emphysema. One is
an enzyme secreted by a white blood
cell that is part of the body’s defense
system, and the other is a protein
that protects tissues against the en
zyme.
The white blood cell, called a neu
trophil, is not normally found in the
lungs in very great numbers. It se
cretes enzymes called elastases,
which break down the support tissue
of air sacs. Large numbers of neu
trophils have been found in smok
ers’ lower lungs and in the lungs of
emphysema victims.
Normally, lung tissue is protected
against elastase by a protein called
alpha-1 antitrypsin.
People can develop emphysema if
they inherit a gene for antitrypsin
deficiency from both parents and
somehow get neutrophil elastase
into their lower respiratory tract,
said Dr. Ronald G. Crystal, chief of
the pulmonary branch at the Na
tional Heart, Lung and Blood Insti
tute.
It is not clear how thehoraj
protein system works inemph
victims who do not have an an
sin deficiency, but it is belieJ
similar mechanism is involveitl
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Various groups have distil
pha-1 antitrypsin from hi
plasma in hopes of givinjittoi
ited emphysema patientsdailv
place their depleted supply.
Crystal said the NHLBhil
alpha-1 antitrypsin intravenoy
a small group of humanpatieff
six months to see if it hast®
fects.
One major problem, how I
that four to nine tons of tk*
stance would be needed annti
treat all genetic emphysemas
ers, t<x) much to be mamifaffi
from plasma.
Some organizations, inch!
drug companies, are using
engineering to induce yeastci
bacteria to produce the subs®
large amounts.
“It’s very important topoimis
you there is no proof that rep;
ment of alpha-1 antitrypsinia:
individuals may cure the disease
said.
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