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By Rod Lillis
CLINTON - The addition of a second video
movie rental and salbusiness in Clinton is
an indication of the soaring popularity of
North America's latest source of en-
tertainment.
Star Time Video, owned by London native
Pat Knight joins Groves TV and Appliance
Centre in offering Clinton and area patrons
the latest in video movies.
"The video movie business is on the up-
swing steadily," said Mr. Knight, who also
owns a video store in Exeter. "People can
have the pleasures of watching a good movie
ill their own home with the ultimate choice
for parents to pick suitable titles for their
children."
Star Time Video offers the movie con-
noisseur a selection of over 1,000 movies
(and music concerts) in the form of 600 discs
and 400 VHS cassette and Beta tapes. The
difference between the systems can be
simplified to say that disc machines cahnot
record and VHS and Beta systems can
record.
Jane Groves of Groves TV and Appliance
Centre has sold and rented video movie
discs as a sideline for the past year and a
half. Her store sells and rents disc movies
only. She said the popularity of the disc
rental business is high with the disc players
always rented on weekends and Tuesday
nights.
"It carries itself (video movie rentals).
The response was excellent all summer with
the kids out of school. Winter is the prime
time for rentals," Mrs. Groves explained.
According to Rick Woodall, who is in
charge of RCA software in Toronto, the
movie disc popularity "has increased
tremendously and has taken off in leaps and
bounds over the last six months." He said
RCA has been involved in selling and ren-
ting movies for the past tv'o and a half
years.
In 1981 RCA made 100 movie disc titles
available on the market. To date that figure
has jumped to 692. Last year 250,000 movie
(including music video discs) were sold in
Canada. This year RCA expects to sell
300,000 alone.
In the United States the video craze is
even bigger as over four million discs were
sold last year. According to RCA sources
over one million discs had been sold in the
U.S. during the first quarter of this year.
Bruce Trowell, RCA Sales Manager for
Ontario, said in the future people in urban
areas can expect to see video stores open up
24 hours, seven days a week, similar to
convenience stores.
"It's just the tip of the iceberg (video
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a
ens
craze). People are renting movies because
they can turn on what they want to watch.
They can control the viewing," Mr. Trowell
said.
Both video stores in Clinton sell and rent
movies ranging from horror to children's
movies. Included on the list are comedy,
drama, science fiction, western, war and
musicals (including rock videos). Both Mr.
Knight and Mrs. Groves said that horror
movies are their biggest sellers. Comedies
and dramas are the next most popular.
Children's movies are gaining popularity
and are in big demand for birthday parties.
Mr. Knight said that his biggest sellers
over the past year have been the movies
Officer and a Gentleman, Arthur and Stir
Crazy. He said any title in horror would
compete it sales with the top two combined.
The number one selling disc in the U.S. and
Canada is Jane Fonda's Workout, which is
still in high demand.
Expensive to start
Anyone interested in starting their own
video movie rental business should be
prepared to spend a lot of money. According
to Mr. Knight, "Profits for two years of
business must go into titles to build a library
to keep customers satisfied." He orders up
to 30 new titles a month to keep his library
updated.
Scared of video
Some people view video players as a scary
piece of technology that is far too com-
plicated to use. Mr. Knight said the video
players come with instructions and are
simple to set up. One minute is all it takes.
He explained that there's an age group
between 50-65 that still haven't reached the
stage of seeing movies in their own home.
Memberships cheaper
If you are planning to rent a lot of video
movies it would be wise to obtain a mem-
bership. A membership allows the customer
to rent videos and players at a reduced rate.
Awareness growing
As more and more people grow aware off
the soaring popularity of video, businesses
must open to supply the demand. In Toronto
over 80 video stores are selling and renting
video tapes. On a smaller scale Clinton has
two video outlets, proof that the popularity
is rising.
"From day one movies have been
popular. But it's now that were finally
bringing them to the masses," concluded
Mr. Knight.
Joanne Young
explains her
anti-nuclear crusade in
letter to Women Today
Helping to prevent a war that could
"vaporize" her students is a lesser crime
than sitting idly by waiting for it to happen,
Joanne Young said in a speech she sent to a
Women Today meeting in Clinton Nov. 22.
The Exeter high school teacher, who was
supposed to address the group on women's
role in the peace movement, was one of 80
protestors arrested outside the Litton
Systems Canada Ltd. plant in Rexdale on
Nov. 18. By refusing to co-operate with
authorities - calling herself "Louis Riel"
and going on a hunger strike in jail - she is
protesting the manufacturing of guidance
systems for cruise missiles.
"I insist on my right not to be party to
mass murder. The Judgement of
Nuremberg made it international law that it
is the duty of everyone to take responsibility
for the action of their government. I insist
on my right to influence policy; otherwise
I'd be accepting a justice system that isn't
used to promote justice," she said in her
speech, which was delivered by a friend.
Although she says she's willing to take the
consequences of her actions, Ms. Young
says that few can face going to jail. Other
peaceful methods of protest ("violence
always gets a violent response") are keep-
ing informed, writing letters of protest to all
levels of government, contributing to agen-
cies working for peace, attending peace
marches, and supporting those few who do
commit civil disobedience.
"Those of us who do civil disobedience
will be without impact if not supported by
the majority," she said.
The huge arsenals of nuclear weapons are
owned by the superpowers to keep others
out of areas such as the Middle East and
most of South America that are vital to
them. By helping the United States test the
cruise missile, Canadians are supporting
the regime which exploits third world coun-
tries.
Canadians become the target of Russian
missiles when they support the United
States. And, Canada has paid for its support
of the U.S. military in the past with dumps
full of radioactive waste in Port Hope after
supplying uranium to the U.S. in 1945, she
said.
Crummy jobs
"Canadians help the U.S. with its dirty
work for a few crummy jobs. But, will we
. really be protected? Canadians had difficul-
ty getting out of Grenada because if they
hadn't, there would have been no reason to
send the boys to get them out."
A skit she sent to the meeting illustrated
her stand on the nuclear arms race. The skit
involved a salesman trying to sell a burglar
alarm to a home -owner that was based on
the principle of deterrence. If a burglar
tried to get into the home, a black box
containing 10 kilos of TNT would blow up the
house and its occupants. When the home
owner protested the salesman said the
burglar would never try to get in if he knew
about the system. The amount of TNT would
increase yearly and cost the home owner
one third his annual income.
When the home owner asked if the system
could go off accidentally the salesman told
him not to think about it.
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one of the over 1,000 movies his store is offering. (Rod Hilts photo)
Seaforth principal named
operations superintendent
The principal of Seaforth Public School
has removed up to the position of superinten-
dent of operations with the Huron County
Board of Education.
Paul Carroll, who has been principal in
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