The Associated Screen News's annual round-up of the news important to Canadians -- and a visit from Santa -- proceeds at a breakneck pace. But it's the endpiece story that concerns me: a youngster waits impatiently while his older relative tries to get a television to work. Given that the newsreel would vanish in the face of competition from television news, and the Associated Screen News organization would be defunct in twenty years because of that..... well, that's glumly amusing.

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