Page Four is clearly a form of source study and thus should Even today the method can be applied to films as diverse These are, of course, aesthetic questions, but they tend to reinforce the moral and legal positions arising from debates over the rights of motion picture artists. However, it is my opinion that the motion picture is an autonomous entity distinct from the fiction on which it is modeled, and that the filmmakers are the authors of that entity, i.e. the motion picture adaptation. In asserting a right in a motion picture after the entity is completed, filmmakers have a vested interest in retaining control over the technological alterations such as colorization, panning and scanning, lexiconning, letterboxing, additions and deletions. I note that such discussions of rights, moral and legal, rarely extend to deviations from the fictional model. In such cases the filmmakers rather than the novelists become the injured parties. Novels Into Film is an instance where an aesthetic argument reinforces a moral and juridical right. Enclosed as per our conversation are copies of the MCA-Qintex contracts limiting the use and distribution of MCA owned black and white television shows after their purchase for colorization by Qintex. As you will note from paragraph 6, page 9 ("McHale's Navy"), paragraph 5, page 13 ("The Munsters") and Paragraph 6, page 15 ("Leave It To Beaver") MCA has agreed: "During the term, MCA shall suspend the worldwide black So much for let the public decide. Before these documents are used or subjected to further July 10, as of June 30, 1987 Hal Roach Studios, Inc. 145 North Maple Drive Beverly Hills, California 90210 ATTN: Messrs. Hal Gaba, Robin French, David Evans and Gentlemen: This memorandum agreement ("agreement") sets forth pur understanding relative to Hal Roach Studios' ("HRS") or its nominee's or subsidiary's financing of additional new episodes of "The New Leave It To Beaver", your subdistribution rights to that series, and your options to colorize and subdistribute colorized episodes of the series "McHale's Navy", "The Munsters", and the original "Leave It To Beaver" and to subdistribute black and white episodes of the original "Leave It To Beaver". 1) HRS shall deposit inté MCA ING. general account number 910607580 at the Universal City branch office of the Bank of America ("Bank of America Account") $11,070,000 as follows: a) $3,500,000 no later than July 2, 1987 from HRS' general funds available in the United States. ("First Principal Amount") ; b) $2,000,000 no later than five (5) business days after the execution of this agreement ("Second Principal Amount"). It is acknowledged that such funds will be transferred from a bank account outside the United States on behalf of HRS from funds controlled by HRS' affiliate/parent Qintex America Limited ("Qintex"). Within one (1) day of the execution of this agreement, HRS will cause an officer of Qintax to confirm to MCA that instructions for this payment have been sent to its bank and will concurrently furnish a copy of said instructions to MCA's office in Australia, telex number AA 25687, attention, Pal 2) 3) 4) Cleary, and tɔ MCA INC. in Universal City, c) $3,370,000 no later than January 2, 1988 ("Third Principal Amount"). HRS will cause Qintex to execute and deliver to MCA a standard form guarantee for said payment within five (5) business days of the execution of this agreement in a manner subatantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit "À". (Intentionally Deleted] with respect to the First Principal Amount, MCA will produce 27 new episodes for 5) HRS shall have the option to order a |