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National Screen Service
American, 1920 - 2000
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BiographyNational Screen Service (NSS) was a company that controlled the distribution of theatrical advertising materials in the United States from approximately 1940 through the 1980s. It was located in Englewood, New Jersey. National Screen Service was formed in 1920 to produce and distribute movie trailers on behalf of movie studios gradually taking over the production and distribution of other forms of movie advertising. In the 1940s it obtained exclusive contracts with all the major movie studios to produce and distribute posters and other paper advertising materials in the United States. It declined with the change in movie theatres in the 1980s and was bought out in 2000.
