Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1959)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1959
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00028
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:
December 02, 2023
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f Motion Picture Daily 6 SMPTE Meet ( Continued from page 5 ) are to take place in the hotel's Grand Ballroom." All day Thursday will be devoted to television equipment and practices. Concurrent sessions are scheduled on Friday morning, one on instrumentation and high-speeed photography and the other on scientific and international television. Video-tape recording is the subject for Friday afternoon. 30 Companies Have Exhibits Latest developments in motion picture and TV engineering will be shown at the equipment exhibit to be held in connection with the convention. Thirty companies and several Armed Forces groups will have their products on display. Program chairman of the convention is Dr. J. Paul Weiss, DuPont Photo Products Division. The exhibit chairman is William J. Reddick of W. J. German Company. Military Uses Stressed A showing of the military uses of motion pictures and television by the United States Army, Navy and Air Force during the equipment exhibit is expected to dramatize the theme of the convention. The U.S. Army Signal Corps will show panels depicting military uses of combat photography the onlyguaranteed scratch removal process for 16 and 35 mm Prints • Originals • Negatives • Kodachromes RAPIDWELD for scratched film: We remove scratches and abrasions from both sides of film, restore flexibility, repair all improper splices, and apply our exclusive protective coating. RAPIDTREAT for new film: We apply a coating to the emulsion side of your film that protects against scratches, dirt and all stains. rapid FILM TECHNIQUE INC. "THE FILM DOCTORS" 37-02 27 St., L.I.C. 1, N. Y. STillwell 6-4601 VISIT US AT BOOTH 35 and the prototype of a tactical television system. The U.S. Naval Training Device Center will display trainers for inner space. The U.S. Air Force will show 10-scale model of the Thor-Able Moon Rocket, Atlas ICBM and Titan ICBM. Jazz Records Added to Valentino Catalogue Recordings described as of the "dramatic jazz" type have been added to the mood music catalogue of Thomas J. Valentino, Inc. The company releases 20 minutes of recordings each month. Added to the October listings are the jazz records, many of which are original compositions by Samuel Allen and were recorded in Europe. Valentino has a diversified library consisting of 20 hours of recordings in all musical moods. Film Festival Begins; To Benefit U.N. Group Leading personalities from the diplomatic, society and entertainment worlds are attending the United Nations Film Festival at the new Murray Hill Theatre here to benefit the United Nations International Children's School. Performances began Saturday night with a Scandinavian film; yesterday afternoon a British film was shown; and last night a French film. The festival continues tonight with one from Latin-America, and concludes tomorrow night with Universale "Pillow Talk." Titles of the pictures were not announced since four are previews of foreign productions being shown by special arrangement. Among those attending are Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, His Excellency Victor Andres Belaunde, president of the United Nations General Assembly, and ambassadors from many nations. All proceeds will be donated to the United Nations International School. Rapid Film Paper A paper on problems of scratches on motion picture film and their removal, prepared by Rapid Film Technique, Inc., will be delivered on Wednesday at the convention of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers here at the Statler Hilton Hotel. Henry Lloyd of Rapid Film will read the paper and be assisted in demonstrations by Jerome Gober. SPLICING PROBLEM? BOOTH #38 FREE GIFT 25 to Receive SMPTE Awards Tuesday Night Some 25 awards, including 15 Fellowships, will be formally presented by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers at special ceremonies here tomorrow night. The SMPTE is holding its 86 semi-annual convention at the Statler Hilton Hotel currently through Friday. Those to receive Fellowships awards include Walter E. Beyer, Robert E. Birr, Harry P. Bruggemann, John M. Calhoun, Albert Gillet, Robert Gottschalk, C. Loren Graham, James W. Kaylor, G. Don Malkames, Leon C. Shelly, Philip E. Smith, Henry Ushijima, Paul Vittum, Julian H. Webb, and Hans C. Wohrab. Other awards and recipients are as follows: Student member award— John C. Stormont. Journal award— Derwyn M. Severy. Honorable Mention— D. W. Fassett, F. J. Kolb, E. M. Weigel, Otto H. Schade, Sr., Donald A. Delwiche, James D. Clifford, and William R. Weller. Herbert T. Kalmus gold medal award— Herman H. Duerr, Ansco. David Sarnoff gold medal award — W. R. G. Baker, Syracuse University. Samuel L. Warner memorial award —John G. Frayne, Westrex Corp. Award of honorary membership in the Society— Harvey Fletcher, Brigham Young University. Progress medal award— Harold E. Edgerton. Monday, October 5, 1959 \ AB-PT Buys ( Continued from page 1 ) ment of its purchase on July 30 this E year. On that day it acquired at E $19.25 per share, 240,768 of the five E. per cent preferred stocks, slated for p August 5 delivery. On that same date, the company E sent out a mailing to all preferred \ shareholders and informed them that |! AB-PT would buy on the New Yorkp Exchange any and all outstanding five per cent stocks at $19.25 per share J' until Sept. 30, 1959. The Commis-'": sion's data reveals that as of July 31, fi 1959, only 75,831 shares of AB-PT's'l five per cent preferred shares werei outstanding. \ Religious Film Theatre [ BOSTON, Oct. 4.-The old Loew'sL State Theatre here, now the Donnelly Memorial Theatre, reopened Oct. lj under the auspices of Richard Cardi-^; nal Cushing with the first formal1 showing in the country of a color filmfy based on the life of Christ. Called "The Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary," the film is in three parts.1 It will be shown twice daily, at 2i and 8:15 P.M. throughout the montlw of October. I; Reopen Ohio Theatre | ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O., Oct. 4.The Old Trail Theatre, recentlj closed, has been reopened Friday bj Rainburt Albert. BUSY? Then you appreciate MOTION PICTURE DAILY's policy of All the News that Is News . . . Concise and to the Point with jealous concern for its reputation of JOURNALISTIC RESPONSIBILITY.