Around the World (1936)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

ยข SELZNICK AWARDED LEAGUE OF NATIONS 1936 GOLD MEDAL FOR "LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY" David 0. Selznick, president of Selznick International, has been notified by the motion picture division of the League of Nations that he has been awarded the 1936 gold medal for his production of "Little Lord Feuntleroy," which was released through United Artists. Special showings of the production will be sponsored by the League of Nations in Geneva, Paris and other Buropean capitals. The award was decided by the unanimous vote of the 52 member nations. of the C.I.D.A.L.C. (Comite International pour la Diffusion Artistique & Litteraire par la Cinematographe) the League's committee for the propagation of motion pictures. At the same time, the committee confirmed the award of an extraordinary distinction, a special gold medal to Charles Chaplin, "in honor of the greatest personality of the art of the cinema," which it announced a few months ago. This is the second consecutive year that producers affiliated with United Artists have carried off the League honors. In 1955, the League awarded the regular gold medal to King Vidor for his production of "Our Daily Bread," and the special gold medal to Walt Disney for his llickey Mouse and Silly Symphony productions. IEE IE ab SE hab He 6 Ee SELZNICK OUTBIDS ALL PRODUCERS FOR "GONE WITH THE WIND" NOVEL David 0. Selznick has announced the purchase of the screen rights to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind," following a bidding contest into which nearly every producer in Hollywood entered. The story is laid in Georgia's red clay hills, and takes the Civil War as the background of its action. It is not a war story, bub a tale of society torn by the war between the states and is climaxed by the dramatic period of reconstruction which followed. According to Macmillan, the publishers of "Gone With the Wind," the book, a first novel, has sold 300,000 copies in its first 4 weeks. BEE IE SESE IE SE SEE SELZNICK CREATES POST OF HUMAN INTEREST EDITOR A novel executive position has been created by David 0. Selznick with the signing of Marshall Neilan, film director, producer and screen writer, as Human Interest Editor for the filmization of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." It will be Neilan's assignment to see to it that the rich human characterizations in the lark Twain classic suffer no change in the cinematic counterpart, and that nothing of the author's intentions escapes the screen. He will work in close cooperation with William H. Wright, production assistant to Selznick; William A. Wellman, the director, and John V. A. Weaver, who is writing the screen adaptation. wl 5e