The Film Daily (1948)

Record Details:

Title:
The Film Daily
Date:
1948
Publisher:
Wid's Films and Film Folk, inc.
Volume:
The Film Daily (Apr-Jun 1948)
Leaf #:
00013
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
This leading industry publication, published out of New York, was founded in 1915 by Wid Gunning (who called his publication Wid's Daily until 1922). The Film Daily documented the rise of the Hollywood studios, the transition to sound, and the evolution of the American film industry (the paper finally shuttered in 1970). The Film Daily included feature reviews, news stories, and advertisements, but its extensive coverage of short films in the 1920s and 30s distinguished it from other trade papers of the period. -- Eric Hoyt, 2011/2013
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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Thursday, April 1, 1948 1HE DAILY Syria Offices 'Must' June 1 Beirut (By Cable)Syrian requirement that foreign film distributcrayjust open offices in ^La if their films are to be shown there will become effective June 1. Syria theaters are now supplied from exchanges in nearby Beirut, Lebanon. About seven out of every 10 films shown are Ameri* "an. USA WILL ENTER FOREIGN DISTRIB Los AngelesJ. J, Goldburg announces United Screen Associates, indie producer-distrib is entering the foreign fie]d with the appointment of reps, in foreign distribution centers, USA has acquired foreign rights to more than 30 features from Sonney Amusement Enterprises. Continuing production activities, company is preparing "The Bank of England" and "A Grea t Soul," lattej based on life of Gandhi. HONOR OLDSTERS Kansas City — Feature of the Allied of Kansas-Missouri convention, May 12-13, will be the first annual Pioneer Banquet. 8 Send Sirtkdau % ♦> <* *.* *** V"* n^ ♦ * yreetinaJ Uo — « APRIL I Wallace Beery Harry Green Charles McCarthy Bob Nolan .*♦**♦*****•»'••.•**•♦*•»*••♦'♦*'♦*******•♦♦'♦*•♦♦*♦%*♦♦■>♦*♦♦••*'< v.* Thursday's Tele-lines ♦♦♦TESTIMONIAL DINNER for Lou Avernbach, marking HIS RECENT PaRA. PROMOTION, WILL BE STAGED Monday in Pittsburgh's William Penn Hotel...* April American mag. has still another press BREAK FOR THE MPAA ' S MaRGARET Ann YoUNG...It,S the right kino of industry publ i c i ty . . . and more power to Tom Waller who conceived the campaign. ...♦Mayor David Lawrence of Pittsburg, one of THE PROPONENTS OF THE CITy's I 0$ TICKET TAX, wants the federal government to drop its 20$ levy, thus removing duplicate taxat i on . . . wouldn't it be simpler to drop the Pittsburgh impost?. ,.*Sarah Newmeyer, long the Museum of Modern Art's publicity director, left that post yesterday to complete a book... Betty Chamberlain takes over today. . ,*Eoward Arnold goes to Salt Lake City Monday to address the Utah committee of the American Overseas and UN Appeal for Children dri ve. . . Intermountain 's Tracy Barham is the drive's state coordinator. . ."A n toine and Antoinette" will have a $5 special SHOWING AT THE ElYSEE TONIGHT AS A BENEFIT FOR the French Committee of the Red Cross... ♦♦♦WHAT A PROPERTY lineup Walt Disney has.'... Look: "Cinderella," "Alice in Wonderland," "Treasure Island," "Peter Pan," "The Sword in the Stone," "Hiawatha," "Three Wishes,"" It's Perfectly True"... Walt is now at work on "Two Fabulous Characters". . .RKO has two Disney pix coming up... "Melody Time" goes out in August, "So Dear to My Heart" in December. .. ♦Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons will release an so-minute documentary, "the t|me is now, " with narration by ralph bellamy, to theaters and tele stations. . .♦Warners has purchased the building which houses its harris theater in Donora, Pa., for $75,000 from the J. R. Evans estate. . .♦Toronto exhi3s. face a provincial crackdown if they continue to snub regulations requiring special identification of pix clasSIFIED as "adult entertainment". ..Province may require special permits for their release. ..♦ Close's opening of "Arch of Triumph" has been switcheo to Apr. 20... ♦Actors Equity's proposed "Television Theater of the Air," to be sent on tour of vioeo stations, is something for exhibs. to think about... ♦b & k's improvement program for wbkb will approximate the cost of a new tele stat i on 0. . . COmiltG AM GOIflG LOUIS B. MAYER is expected IN N.Y. FROM THE Coast in about two WEEK8. B. G. KRANZE leaves. Memphis today for Atlanta. HENRY MORGAN and FRED POLANGIN are in Washington. JULES LAPIDUS returns to New York tomorrow from Boston. FRANK SOULE leaves NY Sunday for a tour of 1 1 E-L key exchanges; trip WILL SPAN FIVE WEEKS. BUDO ROGERS and JOSEPH HARRIS ARE IN the MID-WEST FOR REALART SALES CONFABS. Federal Judge MICHAEL igoe returns to chicago from a Florida vacation at the week-end. SHIRLEY TEMPLE, JOHN AGAR and TERRY TURNER were in Chicago yesterday. THOMAS McCONNELL, Chicago film attorney, is in Buffalo. ALBERTO ACKERMANN , DeVry Bolivian distrib., is in Chicago. RAY MYERSON of Natco has returned to Chicago from Dallas. LEO SELIGMAN, Favorite Films treasurer, leaves for Miami Beach tomorrow. W. A. MOEN and PAUL A. Wagner have returneo to Chicago from Dallas.