Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1955)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1955
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000309
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
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:
A New York-based daily trade paper published by Martin Quigley. The companion to Quigley's better known weekly publication, MOTION PICTURE HERALD, and a direct competitor to THE FILM DAILY, which was also published out of New York. Established in 1930, MOTION PICTURE DAILY enjoyed a circulation of roughly 5,000 readers most years of its four decades in print (a nearly identical circulation to THE FILM DAILY, but only one third of the readership of MOTION PICTURE HERALD, which reached a wider audience of exhibitors). In the 1930s, the MOTION PICTURE DAILY's editor, Maurice Kann, called on the movie industry to shift more production back to the East Coast. Any productions that filmed in New York received ample attention. New York City never regained its production lead over Hollywood, but the major studios used the Big Apple for their corporate and distribution headquarters. As a result, MOTION PICTURE DAILY tended to focus on economic and regulatory issues confronting the film industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
November 10, 2022
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MOTION PICTURE DAILY NEW YORK, U.S.A., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1955 TEN CENTS In 'Academy' Talk isney Finds TV, Alone, Is Not Profitable Tells, However, of Other .'Baskets' Involved By MURRAY HOROWITZ Walt Disney Productions, now in its second year of TV programming, has not made any profit from its TV shows, if the programs would be considered separate and apart from other activities of the company, Walt Disney disclosed here yesterday. Disney commented on the experience of his company at a luncheon meeting at the Plaza Hotel of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He explained, however, that there are many "baskets" involved in the (Continued on page 8) Walt Disney Italy Forms Film Export Organization By ARGEO SANTUCCI ROME, Nov. 15. AXICA-Export has been formed by the Italian Association of Flm Producers and Distributors as its counterpart of the American industry's M.P.E.A. It will replace Anica's Foreign Film Business Office. The new agency will have an exchange licenses office and a foreign (Continued on page 8) Harry Cohn in N.Y. With 'Picnic' Print Harry Cohn, president of Columbia Pictures, arrived in New York yesterday bringing with him the first print of the company's "Picnic," one of the company's major productions. He will remain in the city, conferring at the home office until after the Nov. 28 stockholders' meeting. TOA Not Against Federal 'Beneficial' Regulation ATOI Speech Myers Pleads In Indiana for Gov't Control President Myron Blank Says Association Is Studying Rules and Regulations That Now Govern Industries in Other Nations Special to THE DAILY INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 15. The campaign to enlist exhibitor support for the proposed government regulation of film rentals was carried to the 29th annual convention of Allied Theatre Owners of Indiana here today by Abram F. Myers, general counsel of Allied States Association. Spyros Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, another headliner slated (Continued on page 7) TOA to Press For Tax End Heston to Receive Award for DeMille Charlton Heston, star of Cecil B. DeMille's production of "The Ten Commandments," will leave New York on Friday for Rochester, N. Y., where he will receive on behalf of DeMille a special award at the First Festival of Film Artists in the Eastman Theatre on Saturday evening. The award cites DeMille for his (Continued on page 2) By LESTER DINOFF Theatre Owners of America "is not against any Federal laws or regulations that will be beneficial to the industry," Myron N. Blank, TOA president, declared here yesterday, following a disclosure that the national exhibitor organ i z a t i o n was launching a study of the rules and regulations which govern the motion picture industries of foreign nations in order to find out if some of these regulations could be applied to the U. S. industry. Blank, who returned to the U. S. from a threeweek European trip, during which he represented TOA at the annual convention of the International Exhibitor Union in Rome, said that the type of governmental regulation which TOA (Continued on page 6) Theatre Owners of America, through the Council of Motion Picture Organizations, will press for an immediate campaign to eliminate the 10 per cent Federal admission tax, Myron N. Blank declared yesterday. Commenting on the withdrawal of Allied States Association from COMPO, Blank said that "it is a mistake on Alfred's part and it is a smokescreen." "The lower income group in exhibition is being taxed unjustly by the government and we should fight now to have the admission tax removed." Blank said, overriding Allied statements that this is not the year for such a tax campaign and that (Continued on page 7) Myron Blank Film Center Project Tells of Steps to Increase French Film Earnings in American Market A greater penetration of the American market for French films will be sought by the French Cinema Center, offices of which are to be located in New York, Joseph Maternati, director of the projected center, declared here yesterday. Maternati, at his first press conference, said the center intends to establish a closer liaison between the American distributors and the French producers and a deeper tie between the American public and French films. Maternati, utilizing a translator in responding to questions, stated that one of the functions of the center will be to appraise French film producers of the Production Code. He added that his organization plans to submit French films to the Production Code Administration for Seal approval. He said, in response to another (Continued on page 8) Wm. Dipson Elected Dipson Circuit Head Special to THE DAILY BUFFALO, Nov. lo.-Dipson Theatrical Enterprises, Inc., of Batavia today announced the election of William J. Dipson as president and his father, Nikitas Dipson, as chairman of the board. The elder Dipson has been president of the company, one of the largest independent theatre circuits. District Attorney Wallace J. Stakle, attorney for the concern, has been named a director. Mrs. Marika Dipson, wife of the board chairman, and Andrew O. Gibson of Buffalo also were renamed directors of the organization. Dipson plans to leave this month to join Mrs. Dipson at their home in (Continued on page 7)