New buyers such as CBS Films and Open Road Films have emerged to replace the departed studios.

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Open Road Films acquired part of the distribution rights and the film opening is now scheduled for April.

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That's how it developed the first wet sandpaper for the car industry, hook-and-loop closures for diapers, reflective sheeting for road signs and brightness-enhancement films for laptops.

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Films from his "experimental period" include "ABC Africa" (2001), an impressionistic documentary about Ugandan orphans, and "Roads of Kiarostami" (2006), a meditation on the image of the road, a recurring motif in his films and landscape photography.

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They appeared in 16 films during the 1940s, including "Buck Privates, " "In the Navy, " and "Hold That Ghost" with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, "Hollywood Canteen" and "Road to Rio" with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, as well as in a number of musical films.

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