Boxoffice barometer (1961)

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Record Details:

Title:
Boxoffice barometer
Date:
1961
Publisher:
Kansas City : Associated Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Boxoffice barometer (1960-61)
Leaf #:
000189
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine
Collection:
Year Book and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
BOXOFFICE was the leading American exhibitor trade paper of the post-World War II era. But the publication had modest beginnings. In 1920, Ben Shlyen founded the paper, orginally titled THE REEL JOURNAL, in an office located in Kansas City's Film Row district. Like other regional exhibitor publications, THE REEL JOURNAL focused its attention on the local -- in this case, KC and the nearby territories that the city's distribution exchanges served. By the end of the 1920s, however, Shlyen had acquired or founded several more small exhibitor papers serving other US markets. In 1932, their titles all changed to BOXOFFICE, though they continued to be published in regional editions for decades to follow. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
April 04, 2024
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Page Allied Artists Corp 49 Altec Service Company 154 American Broadcasting-Para- mount Theatres, Inc 177 American International Pictures 18 Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors, Ltd 105, 114 Arthur, Robert 162 Associated British-Pathe, Ltd.. 115 Avalon, Frankie 85 Ealjac Productions 37 Blanke, Henry 163 Brackett, Charles 166 British & American Film Press, Ltd 120 Bryanston Films, Ltd 120 Bryna Productions 124 Brynner, Yul 130, 131 Clover Productions 186 Cohen, Herman 165 Columbia Pictures Corp 27 Commonwealth Theatres 181 Conte, Richard 153 Curtis, Tony 52 Darrin, Diana 46 Day, Doris 54 Dean, Margia 175 De Grunwald, Ltd., Anatole..ll9 Page DeLuxe Laboratories, Inc 123 Douglas, Kirk 152 Embassy Pictures Corp 4, 17 Engel Productions, Inc., Samuel G 138 Evergreen State Amusement Corp 57 Fabian 90 Famous Players Canadian Corp., Ltd 170 Filmgroup, Inc 169 Fox Intermountain Theatres, Inc 57 Fox Midwest Theatres, Inc... 57 Fox West Coast Theatres Corp. 57 Gebhardt Productions, Fred. ... 1 66 German, Inc., W. J 75 Goetz Productions, Inc., William 28 Governor Films, Inc 117 Grant, Cary 144, 145 Green, Mitzi 88 Hitchcock, Alfred 149 Holden, William 51 Hope, Bob 89 Hudson, Rock 55 IATSE 57 Page Korlson, Phil 165 Lantz, Walter 167 Lemmon, Jack 53 Levin, Henry 161 Lewis Productions, Inc., Jerry. . 41 Lion International Films 118 Lippert, Robert L 8 Loew's Theatres, Inc... 177 Magna Theatre Corp 58 Mann, Daniel 158 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 2, 3 Metropolitan Playhouses, Inc... 58 Miller, David 162 Mirisch Company, The.... 34, 35 Mitchum, Robert .76, 77 National Screen Service..3rd Cover National Theatres & Television, Inc 57 Paramount Pictures . . Back Cover Peck, Gregory 80, 81 Pevney, Joseph 88 Preminger, Otto 39 RKO Theatres 179 Radio City Music Hall 170 Rank Organization 116 Regal Films International.. 122-D Page Rodgers, Jimmie 161 Rogers & Cowan 159 Rosenberg, Aaron 158 Schary Productions 126, 127 Schine Circuit, Inc 181 Siegel, Sol C 132 Sinatra, Frank 140, 141 Skouras Theatres Corp 58 Slate, Jeremy 46 Small, Edwardi 163 Spiegel, Sam 29 Stewart, James 134, 135 Sturges, John 33 Taylor, Elizabeth 148 Technicolor Corp 42 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 6, 7 United Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc 58 Universal-International Pictures 11, 13 Viscount Films, Inc 167 Warner Corp., Stanley 170 Warner Bros. Pictures 15 Wayne, John 84 Widmark, Richard 173 186 BAROMETER Section