Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1952)

Film Report (Continued from page 76) ! Joel Hammil, formerly in charge of NBC program development, with Marvin Rothenberg assigned as director of the first program. Idea for the TV programs resulted from recent Broadway successes of Shaw readings by the first drama quartette and selection from Dickens by Emlyn Williams. Hour Glass Productions, Hollywood, starts second series of 13 quarterhour TV films, Man of Tomorrow, May 25 with filming of Huck Finn. Story in Denver. Jerry Fairbanks Productions, Hollywood, starting three quarter-hour public service TV films for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, Chicago. Ken Carpenter, announcer CBS Radio Bing Crosby Show, will narrate the series. Brad Patton, executive Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, is now in Hollywood for conferences with studio officials. Meredith Productions, Hollywood, headed by John Nasht, producer CBS-TV Holiday in Paris and Cafe Continental, plans 13 half-hour Major North TV film series. Sherman Lowe, writer, adapting scripts from stories by Van Wyck Mason concerning adventures of G-2 officer for Army Intelligence. Charles Irving, radio-TV actor, producer and director, head of Charles Irving Productions, will soon have situation comedy show. What a Husband, on the TV cycle. The program stars Jack Lemon. TV Production Assoc., also headed by Mr. Irving, is offering exclusive radio-TV rights to the Blood Hound Mystery television film package. Sales . . . Alexander Film Co., Colorado Springs, Col., announces recent TV commercial productions for the following organizations : Continental Airlines, Denver, two 20-second films through Galen E. Broyles Co. Inc. The Borden Co., Houston, three 20-second films through Tracy-Locke Co. Bowman Biscuit Co., Denver, three 20-second films through Ball & Davidson. Pontiac Motor Division, Detroit, six 60-second films through MacManus, John & Adams. Surface Combustion Corp., Toledo, nine 46second films. Hudson Motor Car Co., Detroit, ten 26-second films through Brooke, Smith, French & Dorrance. Association Films Inc. announces release of new, single-reel 16mm film titled Practical Police Ju-Jitsu, and subtitled "Weaponless Self Defense." Film is offered for rental as informative or teaching aid. Film People . . . Cathedral Films, North Hollywood, Calif., headed by Rev. James K. Friedrich, as president, has added five new members to its board of directors. They are Dr. Earle B. Jewell, Rector of St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Kansas City, Mo.; Dr. Clarence B. Stoughton, president Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio; Rev. Edward McNair, Rector of St. Michael and All Angels Church, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Elaine Friedrich. Re-elected members of board include Dr. Friedrich ; John T. Coyle, vice-president; Ralph T. Merriam, secretary, and Brunson Motley, distribution manager. Dr. McNair also elected treasurer, replacing Charles Wayne, resigned to establish own TV film production company. Ralph Acton, casting director Allied Casting, Hollywood, signed by Krasne-Gross-Dewitt Inc., that city, to act in similar capacity on Big Town, TV film series, for Lever Bros., N. Y. Phildan TV Productions, Hollywood, signs Hugh Ratliff, comptroller for United Artists Corp., Los Angeles, in similar capacity. Frederic W. Ziv TV Productions, y": PORTLAND, OREGON .RE 1,246,540 active, young-minded Westerners comprise KGW's market in 12 big, prosperous metropolitan Oregon counties, plus a generous slice of Southwestern Washington. PRESENTED NATIONALLY BY EDWARD RETRY & CO., INC.. Hollywood, signs three story editors for three TV film series. Tom Gries, associate producer RKO Studios, Hollywood, to The Unexpected; Julius Evans, story editor Sol Lesser Productions, Hollywood, to Cisco Kid; Donn Mullally, free lance writer, to Boston Blackie. Hal Roach Productions, Culver City, signs Joe E. Brown, stage and film star, to enact leading role in untitled half-hour TV film series. Format concerns small town business man — a widower — who is raising a son and daughter. Production starts today (Monday) on series to be distributed by Official Films, New York. Snader Telescriptions Corp., Beverly Hills, plans to complete second group of 400 telescriptions with signing of Delta Rhythm Boys, Fran Warren, April Stevens, Polly Bergen and Patricia Morison. WDArS 30TH YEAR Eastern Trip Highlights WEST met East in a tour of Dakotans and Minnesotans sponsored by WDAY Fargo as a highlight in the station's 30th anniversary celebrations. The journey of 60 persons gave the westerners a day in Chicago, three days in Washington, three days in New York and one day in Detroit. The trip began March 10 and was concluded last Thursday, In addition to sightseeing trips, the group attended Welcome Travelers, NBC show originating in Chicago, and other radio and TV programs in Radio City, New York. In Washington, the visitors toured the Senate and the House and watched legislators in action. Later, they were guests at a luncheon in the Senate dining room with Senate and House members from the Dakotas and Minnesota. In New York, highlights were the St. Patrick's Day parade and an inspection of the HollandAmerican luxury liner, Nieuw Amsterdam. Detroit's Ford Motor Co. plants also were seen on the trip. WDAY celebration is climaxed May 22. WLW Spoken History SPOKEN HISTORY of significant broadcasts by WLW Cincinnati was aired last Saturday by the Crosley Broadcasting Corp. outlet in a half-hour program honoring WLW's 30th anniversary. Program featured playback of recordings of famous events and people, all taken from the station's $125,000 record library. An account of the development of WLW's present day news coverage was to be narrated by Peter Grant and Ken Linn. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Established by Bates Agency AN EXECUTIVE committee of five with Thomas F. Harrington as chairman, has been elected by the partners of the Ted Bates Agency, Mr. Bates announced last week. In addition to general management problems, the group will form the nucleus of the agency plans board to work on advertising policy, media strategy and merchandising. The committee is composed of Rosser Reeves, partner and creative supervisor; William H. Kearns, partner; D. Robert Parman, partner; Mr. Harrington, partner; and Clifford Parsells, partner and director of research. Adds Seattle Studio KRKL Kirkland, Wash., has opened a studio in neighboringSeattle in addition to its main office and studio facilities and transmitter in Kirkland. The Seattle studio, according to Lamar Ostrander, co-owner of the station, is being used primarily for the live broadcast of "cowboy-type disc jockey programs." ROBERT BLEES, Hollywood film writer, has been named Screen Writers Guild representative on Authors League of America National Television Committee, succeeding the late Oliver H. P. Garrett. They know at home mORE^S 111] I II m IN LOCAL BUSINESS THAN ANY OTHER STATION INnOPEKA! UIREH if(>ii • top ratings • wide coverage • lowest cost per listener 5000 WATTS ABC TOPEKA Represented Nationally by Weed & Co. fBROADCASTING • Telecasting March 24, 1952 Page 81