Degeto Film

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(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ton und Bild) is a film rights trader and production company of the ARD, based in

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. Its shareholders are the regional broadcasting corporations of ARD or their advertising subsidiaries. ARD Degeto acquires fictional programs for ARD's flagship national television channel

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, NDR,

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and the other ARD channels.

History

The company was founded in 1928 as ''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ton und Film e. V.'' and produced and distributed propaganda films for

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's Reich government in the 1930s and 1940s. It operated under the name ''Degeto – Kulturfilm G.m.b.H.'' from 1937, and from 1942 as ''Degeto Film GmbH''. After reactivation in 1952 by the state of

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and

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(HR), the company was initially owned by ''Werbung im Rundfunk GmbH'', a subsidiary of HR, from 1954 and was jointly taken over by the ARD broadcasters in 1959.

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Website

Degeto - Internet Archive (archive.org)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Degeto Film ARD (broadcaster) Companies established in 1928 Companies based in Frankfurt German film industry

History

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