Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry (1954)

ASSOCIATED MOTION PICTURE ADVERTISERS, INC. e/o Secretary, Stanley Warner Theatres, 17 Academy St., Newark 2, NJ. OFFICERS President . Lige Brien Vice-President . Al Floersheimer, Jr. Secretary . Edgar Goth Treasurer . William Boley DIRECTORS Blanche Livingstone, Harry K. McWilliams, Miriam F. Brandon, Maurice Bergman, Gordon White, Brien, Floersheimer, Goth, Boley. TRUSTEES David Bader, Vivian Moses, Jacques Kopfstein. AMPA ADVERTISING SCHOOL Chairman . Maurice Bergman CANADIAN MEMBERS James Nairn, Famous Players Can. Corp., Toronto. Wannie Tyers, Odeon Theatres (Canada) Ltd., Toronto. Raoul Auerbach, 20th Century Theatres Ltd., Toronto. Thomas Cleary, Consolidated Theatres Ltd., Montreal. AUDITORIUM OWNERS AND OPERATORS ASSOCIATION INC. Room 326, 64 Wellington St. West, Toronto, Ont. (EMpire 8-3335) President . Mrs. M. Marshall Alexandra, Hamilton Vice-President . W. J. Way Highlands, Galt Past-President . C. H. Kendall Brant Inn, Burlington Secretary . Wm. Johnson, CA DIRECTORS W. White, Palace Pier, Toronto; G. Dunn, Dunn's Pavilion, Bala; CL Dutton, Wondergroves, Hamilton; Wm. Laidlaw, Club Top Hat, Toronto; S. G. Simpson, Masonic Auditorium, Toronto; J. Robertson, Pavilion, Sauble Beach. BANK OF CANADA FOREIGN EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT Bank of Canada, Ottawa REPRESENTATIVES MONTREAL W. A. Cameron, 901 Victoria Square (UNiversity 6-1781) TORONTO Peter Watt, Room 704, 6 King St. E. (EMpire 8-1171) CANADIAN COOPERATION PROJECT 28 W. 44th St., NY 18, NY (Phone BRyant 9-4000) The Canadian Cooperation Project resulted from discussion with officials of the Department of Trade & Commerce but the Department of External Affairs and the Interdepartmental Com¬ mittee now handle our Government's interest in it. The MPAA has its own representative in Canada. The CCP was created six years ago to stimu¬ late Canada's tourism by calling attention to its scenic beauties and points of interest on USA screens. OFFICIALS Coordinator . Taylor M. Mills (MPAA, 28 W. 44th St., New York 18.) Hollywood . Mr. & Mrs. Blake W. Owensmith (MPAA, 8480 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles 36, Col.) CANADIAN OFFICE MacLaren Advertising Co. Ltd. 372 Bay St., Toronto, Ont. (EMpire 4-0321) Representative . Don Henshow J. ARTHUR RANK ORGANIZATION OF CANADA LTD. 20 Carlton St., Toronto, Ont. OFFICERS President . L. W. Brockington, CMG, QC Vice-President & Sec.-Treas. C. R. B. Salmon, CA DIRECTORS J. Arthur Rank, John Davis, L. W. Brockington, C. R. B. Salmon. Associations ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN ENTERTAINMENT AGENCIES 125 Dupont St., Toronto, Ont. (WAInut 2-3147) OFFICERS President . . George A. Taggart Secretary-Treasurer . . Hec McCallum Members are required to have franchises from both the American Guild of Variety Artists and the American Federation of Musicians. CANADIAN COUNCIL OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS 221 Victoria St., Toronto, Ont. (EMpire 8-8026) Executive Director . Rev. Richard D. Jones Co-Chairmen . John Hayes, Roy Thomson, O. B. Roger WESTERN DIVISION 111 8th Ave. E., Calgary, Alberta QUEBEC DIVISION 114 Mansfield Ave., Montreal, Que. MOTION PICTURE COMMITTEE Gordon Lightstone, chairman; T. S. Daley, H. L. Nathanson, J. J. Fitzgibbons, Frank H. Fisher, Charles Chaplin, N. A. Taylor, Jule Allen, Haskell Masters and Hye Bossin. Daley, Nathanson and Fitzgibbons are national directors. CANADIAN FILM ARCHIVE (Organized April, 1951) INTERIM COMMITTEE Hye Bossin, managing editor, Canadian Film Weekly, Toronto. Walter Herbert, director, Canada Foundation, Ottawa. Dr. J. Roby Kidd, director, Canadian Association for Adult Education, Toronto. Dr. Wm. Kaye Lamb, head of the Public Archives, of Canada^ Ottawa. O. R. Hanson, past president, Canadian Picture Pioneers, Toronto. N. A. Taylor, president, Canadian Picture Pio¬ neers, Toronto. J. J. Fitzgibbons, CBE, president, Famous Players Canadian Corp. Ltd., Toronto. 159