The Busy Air

Last week Hollywood was eying television with deep interest: P: The first top-rank movie star to get into TV on a contract basis was Oscar Winner Ronald Colman. For an undisclosed sum, said Producer Ben Finney, Colman had agreed to narrate and act in 26 half-hour telefilms: 13 Charles Dickens stories, and 13 by Robert Louis Stevenson. Colman may also narrate a series of O. Henry dramas.

P: Producer David O. Selznick announced the formation of his own television film unit, which will begin producing "in the near future."

P: Producer Hal Roach decided to turn his Hollywood lot into a production center for other telefilm companies. He will also invest $3,000,000 in telefilms of his own devising.

P: 20th Century-Fox applied for its second television station--at Seattle.

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