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GOLDWYN ANNOUNCES RELEASING PLANS
OF UNITED ARTISTS FOR COMING YEAR
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(Note: You can tell exhibitors this is our preliminary lineup for next season. An array of producers and product that will make United Artists the most formidable distributing company on earth.)
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Thirty-five productions, the largest number in the history of United Artists, will be released by that company during the 1956-47 season, it was announced by Samuel Goldwyn, one of the owner-members of U.A.
Mr. Goldwyn's own schedule calls for eight pictures, each planned on an ambitious production scale. The Pickford-Lasky organization will make four films, Selznick International, of which David 0. Selznick is president, will contribute five productions. Walter Wanger will produce four. Douglas Fairbanks will make one film, based on the life and adventures of Marco Polo. Alexander Korda will produce six. Pioneer Pictures, with John Hay Whitney as executive head, will make four films all in Technicolor. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., entering the field as a producer in London, will contribute two. Reliance Pictures will make one, "The Last of the Mohicans." The program may be augmented by one film produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin, with Paulette Goddard as the star,
Pictures in Technicolor, according to Mr. Goldwyn, will constitute an important part of the United Artists releases next season. Besides the four to be made in color by Pioneer Pictures, at least. one and possibly two films on the Goldwyn program will be in the three-tone process. David 0. Selznick is preparing to film "The Garden of Allah" in color, and Walter Wanger also expects to make one Technicolor production. Alexander Korda has already announced that his production of "Revolt in the Desert," based on the exnloits of Lawrence of Arabia, will be in colores
"T don't agree," Goldwyn explained, "that pictures in color must wait, I believe we are ready for them right now. We must, however, be care= ful of the suodjects we select for color presentation. Not every picture is as yet adaptable to the new medium. Musical pictures and outdoor romances, I think, can right now be greatly enhanced through the use of the color process."
Discussing conditions in the industry generally, Goldwyn stated that the tendency is definitely in the direction of decentralization,
"The factory method of production grinding out pictures like
sausages —is on the wane," he said. “Salaried producers will soon
be a thing of the past. The best production results must come from
those who have their own organizations and who stand or fall by their
own efforts. Every United Artists producer works for himself. He has -2