Canadian Film Digest (Dec 1972)

The Canadian Film Digest: DECEMBER 1972 HILLARD ELKINS STARTS international Scenes Adolf Zukor is going to be 100 years old (that makes the movies almost the same — maturity is at hand) and a gala dinner sponsored by the Variety Club will be held on January 7 on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. Co-Chairmen of the $250 plate bash are Bob Hope, Robert Evans, M.J. Frankovich, Leonard Goldenson, Jack Warner, Sol Lessor and Sherrill Corwin. General Chairman if Frank Yablans ... . Tuesday Weld is the number one Contender for the part of Daisy in Paramount’s The Great Gatsby . . . Liv Ullman and Gene Hackman will make Taylor’s Bride, a western love story, for Warners . . . Steve McQueen will be directed by Franklin Schoffner as Papillon The Walter Reade Organization has returned to the production end of the. film world with two projects planned. One is a ballet version of Don Quixote with Rudolph Nureyev and the Australian Ballet. The second is a Joseph Strick film of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Reade-and Strick formerly collaborated on Ullysses. Projects are only the beginning, says Reade Organization ... Rank Film ~ Distributors and Twentieth Century-Fox have joined to form Fox-Rank Distributors Limited. The new company will handle all Fox and Rank theatrical] distribution in the United Kingdom beginning this month. Only theatrical distribution is’ covered by the company. Co-Chairmen are _ Percy Livingstone of Fox and Frank Poole of Rank November 18 was an important day in the life of the moving picture. Mickey Mouse was forty-four years old. And his voice still hasn’t changed. On November 18, 1928 Steamboat Willie made its debut at the Colony Theatre in New York ... And NBC TV will air a 50th Anniversary Special in honor of Disney Studios ... Passing: Martin Dies, the first chairman of the House Unamerican Activities Committee, died recently at age 71. Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dies was never as extreme as his successors, but he did establish the groundwork ... Richard Lester, a film pioneer in his own right with his unique style in the ’60’s, has lost his latest film project, and is now shooting commercials in France and Italy. He first ~ gained experience in the same form ... Mickey Rooney has also returned to the old days. Living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he now has formed a seventeen piece band. Playing one-night stands in his immediate area, he features Lawrence Welk-type music, and earns $2,500 per night ... And Lana Opportunity for ambitious person to operate a Drive-In theatre in Muskoka area; needs renovation and lots of hard work. Person should be a projectionist for maximum income — profit sharing andor interest in business. Principals only need apply. Contact F. J. Giaschi, P.O. Box 490, Huntsville, Ontario. Uher 4000L tape recorder for sale. Reel-toreel 5 inch reels, portable, Mono, all ac National Film Board Montreal Planning low budget one hour dramas for TV and one and a half hour dramas for features. Looking for original film scripts or outlines. Submit to Rosemary Chapley, Studio Eight, National Film Board, P.O. Box 6100, Montreal 101, Quebec. . Hobel-Leiterman Toronto Opening for an experienced neg cutter. Write to Hobel-Leiterman, 573 Church St., Toronto, or call (416) 920-3495. Patti Payne Toronto Casting from now until Christmas for eight more Police Surgeon episodes. Looking for new people, any actors in town who can handle an engagement. Photos and resumes to Patti Payne, 2264 Lakeshore Blvd. West, Toronto 500. University of Windsor Windsor School of Dramatic Art requires scenic Designer Ph.D. or M.F.A. degree required Digest Classified Digest Casting Turner will star in two films back to back in London. Shocking and You'll Never Love Me are the titles. They could be the title of her recent biography ... George C. Scott begins shooting Day of the Dolphin December 19 in the Bahamas for Joseph E. Levine. Written by Buck Henry, pic is to be directed by Mike Nicols ... Allied Artists moved from the red to the black due to the success of the film Cabaret, and promptly acquired Cinerama Releasing ... Bennie Korban has left National General to become Marketing Director at Brut Productions Columbia Pictures has recouped its 1971 losses ... Mary Pickford has prepared a package of films to be released in Europe. Included are Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and five other silents, each equipped with a new Wurlitzer sound track, and two talkies, as well as some shorts. Proceeds from rentals will go to the Mary Pickford Foundation ... A theatre in Luton, England was showing a sex education pic called The Language of Love. Some females told the manager they wanted to come and see the movie but were too shy to goin mixed company. The manager arranged a Ladies Only Night. .. NATO Events: At the recent convention in Bal Harbour Florida, Harold F. Chesler of Salt Lake City was elected President of the National Association of Concessionaires. Reelected as Vice-Presidents were Clifford D. Lorbeck and S. Charles Bennett, Jr. New V.P.’s are J.C. Evans and Don W. Mayborn. Charles L. Sweeney of Odeon in Toronto was elected a junior director .. . A Conference on Visual Anthropology will be held March 7-10, 1973 at Temple University. An opportunity is provided for Anthropologists, Social Scientists, Communications Specialists and others to explore the uses of visual media for an understanding of the human condition ... The first Directory of Non-Narrated Films is to be published by Bowker, a unit of the Xerox Corporation. Nearly 1,000 16mm films will be included, the main criteria for inclusion being a visual communication. These are not silents, but talkies who lack dialogue and face to face interviews. Company credits Expo ’67 with inspiring interest in this method of communication ... Included among the winners at the recent Chicago International Film Festival were the NFB for Norman Jewison:. Film-maker, Ontario Education Communication Authority for the Metric System, Hydro-Quebec for L’Electricite, and Moreland-Latchford Productions for-Ponies and for Tommy, Suzie, and the ‘Cardboard Box. cessories including nic cadmium battery. Two years old, excellent condition. Professional quality at amateur prices. $265. Contact Canadian Film Digest, (416) 924-3701. Do you have an article to sell, a service to provide, a position to fill? Place your ad in this section. Only 80 cents per line. Send your insertion to Classifieds, Canadian Film Digest, 175 Bloor East, Toronto 5. Get results — cheap! with both academic and professional experience to design university productions and teach undergraduate students. Salary is negotiable. Effective Jan. 1, 1973. Apply to the Director of the School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. (519) 253-4232, Ext. 249. Gate Theatre Productions Toronto Toronto Gate Theatre Productions will present two new works this year, including one musical. Send pics and resume Box 546 Station K, Toronto 12, Ontario. Huron County Playhouse Grand Bend, Ontario Actors, actresses, technicians needed for school tour with children’s theatre in London, Ontario area. Send pics and resume to Playhouse, Grand Bend, Ontario. Are you looking for actors, technicians, teachers? We will provide a listing in this column free. Just send information to Casting, Canadian Film Digest, 175 Bloor St. East, Toronto 5. ANY personnel, not only movie people, are eligible. Page 23 COMMUNICATION COMPANY Hillard Elkins, international stage and film producer, was in Toronto recently to an-. nounce the formation of a film company in Canada. Called Elkins Productions of Canada Limited, the company will be involved in all areas of entertainment and communications including film production and distribution, publishing, and recording. Elkins Productions of Canada Limited will amalgamate with an existing Ontario public company, Mytolon Chemicals Inc., and will trade over the counter in Toronto. Its initial capitalization will be one and one half million dollars. Members of the Board of the new Ontario comapny will include: Hillard Elkins, President; Robert W. Macaulay, senior partner of the Toronto law firm of Thomson, Rogers; D. Gordon Badger, President of M.T.S. International Ltd., and Holdex Group Limited; Miss Claire Bloom, stage and film actress — and wife of Elkins; D.J. McGorman, President of Ticket Investments Ltd.; D.W. Reid, President of Holdex Financial Services Limited; Harold Schiff, senior ‘partner in a New York law firm. Why has Elkins chosen Canada? For Elkins, Canada offers more flexibility. ‘‘The rules are not as stringent. By design in the U.S. you have to build in thirty to forty per cent overtime to get a film made. Here one can limit himself to pay only the direct costs which can represent an enormous saving of up to thirty per cent of the below-the-line costs ' of a film.’’ Other reasons cited for Elkins relocation to Canada were the excellent government attitude toward the film industry, especially the funds made available through the CFDC and the Ontario Development Corporation; the availability of talent; and the more open atmosphere of working conditions. The schedule for the company will be hectic in the coming year. Commencing December 4, Elkins will begin the shooting of A Doll’s House Starring Claire Bloom, Dame Edith Evans and Sir Ralph Richardson. The budget is set at four hundred thousand dollars and the film is expected to be in release by February, 1973. “I see A Doll’s House,” says Elkins, ‘‘as essentially a story of confinement and will therefore produce it in a studio environment.”’ In the spring of 1973, the company will commence production in Toronto of One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding. Elkins will produce and direct the film which is being co-produced with Twentieth Century-Fox. Fox will also co-produce with Elkins the film version of his Braodway musical success, The Rothchilds with a budget tentatively set at five million dollars. Production will be in London and Vienna. As a producer, Elkins is a man committed to total involvement in any project. He spent seven and one half years on the Rothchilds’ production and a similar period on Golden Boy. “My role in any production’, says Elkins, “fs one of finding a project and casting it, not the actors but the creative personalities and Supervising the project, acting as an editor.”’ In this way he has assumed control over productions which have resulted in his numerous successes. Elkins previous film productions included Alice’s Restaurant, A New Leaf, and Oh! Calcutta!. Hillard Elkins. Digest Movie Quiz No. Two 1. Katharine Hepburn made her film debut as John Barrymore’s daughter in 2. What was the name of the Bogart character in Petrified Forest? 3. A photo showing Marilyn Monroe’s skirt blowing up was part of the ad campaign for what movie? 4. Who played the Dolly Sisters in the movie of the same name? 5. Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper, and Clara Bow starred together in an award-winning film set in World War I. The film was called 6. In what movie did Fred Astaire sing ‘“‘I Won’t Dance”’? 7. Spencer Tracy murdered Ingrid Bergman i 8. What was the name of Dracula’s henchman? 9. Weekend at the Waldorf was the 1945 ‘remake of ____.. 10. Name the following star: He lived 18801940. A famous star of westerns, rodeos, and circuses, he died in a car crash in Europe. Answers: ‘XI, WOL, “OT “[0}0H puesy “6 ‘plarjuey “8 ‘epAH “JIN pue [Ayer ‘Id ‘2 ‘eylaqoy °9 “SBuIM “S “JaAeH aunr ‘afqeiy Ayeg ‘p ‘YdI] 1eax UaAVS “¢ ‘gajueyT ayn ‘% “jJWaUIBDIOAIG JO [Iq ‘T SUBSCRIBE NOW! ! ! Here’s how to keep up with what’s happening in the Canadian Film. Industry in one easy lesson: Subscribe NOW to the Canadian Film Digest Covering all aspects of Distribution, Production, and Exhibition in Canada. Send $7.50 for one year or $12.00 for two years To: Subscriptions The Canadian Film Digest 175 Bloor St. East Toronto 5 Remember: The Yearbook is included in your subscription. we