TV & VIDEO - Feb. 19, 1987
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Thousands of video halls are to be opened across the Soviet Union over the next two years as part of a drive to develop the country’s fledgling video industry, a senior cinema official was quoted Wednesday as saying. Alexander Kamshalov, chairman of the state cinema authority Goskino, told the daily Sovietskaya Rossiya that the Soviet Union lagged behind most countries in the development of video. But money, he said, was now being invested to equip the halls with up-to-date Soviet and Western machinery.
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