In addition to showing Shaw Brothers films, they also screened second-run Chinese movies. Unexpectedly, with the founding of Shaw Brothers Taiwan and the dramatic growth of independent film production companies, once again there weren't enough theaters. And so there was a fourth wave of theater openings, including the World and Kuosheng. These brought the total to more than 20 theaters showing nothing but first-run Chinese-language films.
未料，邵氏台灣公司成立，再加上獨立製片公司增加，原有的院線又出現不夠用的窘態，於是又開闢包括大世界、國聲等第四條院線，總計台北市有二十餘家戲院專演首輪國片，這種榮景是國片人士早年根本料想不到的事，也間接替政府解決了強制戲院上映國片的困擾。