The Moving Picture Weekly (1919-1922)

Vol. 15, No. 14 The Moving Picture Weekly 21 Oldknow Resigns As Film Distributing Head NED E. DEPINET, for ten years the assistant general manager of the Consolidated Film and Supply Company, one of the South's most extensive film distributing agencies, has been elevated to the position of General Manager of that corporation, it has just been learned, and hereafter will 'guide the destinies of the company. He succeeds William C. Oldknow, who has resigned. The Consolidated Film and Supply Company is the distributor of Universal pictures in the South. The company has its headquarters in Atlanta, and has offices in New Orleans, Dallas, El Paso, Memphis and Jacksonville. For the time being, Depinet, who has been in charge of the Dallas branch, will remain in that city. The new Consolidated manager has just returned to Dallas from New York, where he was in conference with the officials of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, relative to the future distribution of Universal pictures in the South. Although there is no change of policy contemplated in the management of the Consolidated, the distribution and handling of Universal pictures will gradually undergo a building-up process which it is calculated will make the South one of Universal's most fertile fields. Depinet, although scarcely out of his twenties, has been in the film busi Ned E. Depinet New Manager For South ern Consolidated ness almost fifteen years, and is considered to be one of the best known film men in the South. He started in the business in 1907 in his father's Dreamland Theatre in New Orleans. Then he became shipper and inspector for the Imperial Film and Supply Company of New Orleans. When this concern was sold out to the General Films young Depinet joined the forces of the Consolidated Film and Supply Company. He worked for them in St. .Louis and Atlanta, then travelled all through the South as a salesman. In a statement made just prior to his departure from New York, Depinet said: "I believe the time is ripe for a healthy increase in picture business in the South. There is no doubt that conditions there are on the up-grade. The Consolidated is well fixed to take advantage of this and I am going to bend every effort to keep Universal pictures at the top of the list in popular favor throughout our territory. I plan no immediate changes in the organization, but will gradually make it a bigger and better film distributing organization. The Consolidated has earned a reputation for fairness to the exhibitor. I am going to make this a creed, and I know that my host of exhibitor friends throughout the Southern States will welcome my contemplated moves to give better serNed E. Depinet. vice." 1? 1? International News Introduces Camera Trick INTERNATIONAL NEWS has introduced a novelty into the recent issues of that news reel. It is a subject showing how New York City looks to a futuristic artist, or perhaps to an over-indulger in home brew and prohibition hooch. The first selection of these shots is included in International News No. 29, just released through all Universal Exchanges. It includes shots of the Woolworth Building, the City Hall, the Municipal Building, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Subway and Elevated lines, and various crowds, International News Reels "Shots" Make New York Look Like Crazy Town — A Great Laugh Getter actually photographed, but reproduced by some camera trick to look like the wildest dreams of a welsh rarebit fiend. It is said to be the best laughter-getter in moving pictures ever made by trick photography and will increase patronage, International claims. In succeeding reels, International will show other lamiliar New York sights in jazzed photography, and then a series of news events photographed the same way. It . is predicted to be even a bigger bet for "freak pictures" than slow motion. Send Your Name Today for Universal's $7,000 "Robinson Crusoe" Contest