!!!Kiba

Kiba, Kino-Betriebsges. m. b. H; limited liability company 
established by the Social Democratic Party in 1926; the Kiba company 
purchased a large number of cinemas and pursued the objective of 
improving film culture by introducing political and socially realistic 
films. It also produced its own movies for propaganda purposes. In the 
1920s F. W. Rossak made what were called "workers´ films" 
and in 1930 Das Notizbuch des Mr. Pim (Mr Pim´s Notebook), a 
full-length feature film. By 1931 Kiba owned 30 cinemas with 16,000 
seats. Today the company operates several cinemas in Vienna.

!Literature
W. Fritz, Kino in Oesterreich. Der Tonfilm 1929-45, 1991.


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