Canadian Film Digest (Jun 1973)

Page scan 0005 from Canadian Film Digest

Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Digest
Date:
Jun 1973
Volume:
Canadian Film Digest (Jun 1973)
Leaf #:
0005
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",Canad
Collection:
Global Cinema, Canada, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library, Canadian Picture Pioneers, Paul Moore and Jessica Whitehead
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:

Canadian Film Digest

Editors: Dan Krendel (1971-72), Garth Drabinsky (1972-76)

Canadian Film Digest (1971-76) was owned and published by Nat Taylor’s Film Publications of Canada, Ltd., and initially edited by Dan Krendel, who had edited What’s New? (1942-74) and originated Ballyhoo (1952-61) for nationally-dominant chain, Famous Players Canada, Ltd., also Taylor’s exhibition partner. Despite these ties to a Paramount-controlled theatre chain, the magazine nonetheless aimed to provide news and features about all aspects of the industry across Canada, exhibition, distribution and production. The Digest began when an attempted 1970 renewal of Canadian Film Weekly (1942-70) was short-lived. Taylor decided to relaunch under an entirely new title with a more contemporary, colour layout. Taylor later hired young Garth Drabinsky to edit, impressed by his initiative publishing Impact (1972), a lobby give-away for moviegoers. Drabinksy’s interest turned to film producing in 1977, letting the Digest come to an end, although he and Taylor continued to collaborate in building the original 18-screen Cineplex at Toronto’s Eaton Centre. Canadian Film Digest also published an annual directory Canadian Film Digest Yearbook (1971-86), which similarly continued Canadian Film Weekly Year Book (1951-70), and subsequently became Film Canada Yearbook (1986-2007). Because Canadian Film Digest originated in the Canadian Film Weekly, which had incorporated Canadian Moving Picture Digest (1917-57), which in turn had merged with Canadian Universal Bulletin (1915-18), the magazine dated its roots back to 1915, a single thread of ownership publishing these main periodicals and annuals of English Canada’s film press.

– Paul Moore, March 2024

Date Added:
August 08, 2024
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Pagesé June 1973 Pre-View (Cont'd) SCARECROW . Distributor: Warner Bros. Cast: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth. Credits: Producer: Robert Sherman. Director: Jerry Schatzberg. Written by: Garry White. Editor: Evan Lottman, ‘Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond. Story: Two men meet and travel together, sharing adventures and learning from each “other. ; SHAFTIN AFRICA Distributor: MGM Cast: Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee Credits: Producer: Roger Lewis. Director: John Guillermin; Writer: Stirling D. Silliphant. Music: Johnny Pate. Story: Shaft poses as an African to track down leaders of a modern day slave trading operation. SISTERS Distributor: Astral Communications Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, Bill Finley, Lisle Wilson. Credits: Producer: Edward Pressman. Director: Brian De Palma. Written By: Brian De Palma and Louisa Rose. Music: Bernard Herrmann. Story: A horror suspense story. Siamese sisters are separated, and when one dies the other takes on the characteristics of both, resulting in a battle between good and evil. THE STUDENT TEACHERS Distributor: International Film Distributors Limited. Cast: Susan Damante, Brooke Mills, Brenda Sutton. Credits: Produced by — Julie Corman, Directed by — Jonathan Kaplan, Screenplay by — Danny Opatoshi. Story: The film explores the very private lives of 3 beautiful Student Teachers as they unmask a deadly rapist and battle the Mafia for a fortune in heroin destined for their very own classrooms. TERMINAL ISLAND Distributor: Ambassador Films Cast: Don Marshall, Phly Phyllis Davis. Credits: Executive Producer: L.H. Woolner; Producer: Charles Swartz; Director: Stephanie Rothman; Written by Jim Barnett, Charles Swartz and Stephanie Rothman. Story: When the death penalty is outlawed, all remaining murderers are put on an island together, supplied with essentials for creating their own existence, and cut off from the rest of the world in every way. THREE DIMENSIONS OF GRETA Distributor: International Film Distributors ' Limited Cast: Tristan Rogers, Karen Boyes, Alan Curtis, Leena Skoog Credits: Producer/ Director — Peter Walker, Screenplay — Murray Smith, Music — Harry South. Story: Concerns a frantic search for a sexually-oriented teenage beauty who has disappeared into the London underworld. The: picture is in 3-D. TOM SAWYER F<) Te hac ee lf ane y SiC Distributor: United Artists. Cast: Johnny Whitaker, Susan Joyce, Celeste Holm, Joshua Hill Lewis, Jodie Foster. The Canadian Film Digest f Credits: Director: Don Taylor. Associate Credits: Director — Bob Kellet, Produced by Producer: Frank Capra Jr. Producer: Arthur — Ned Sherrin & Terry Glinwood, Sceen Play Jacobs. ~ — Sid Colin. Story: Mark Twain’s story of growing up in Story: Lurk is hypnotised into believing only the Old South, told in a musical version. he can save England when war is declared. UP THE FRONT After having the master plan tattoed to his fae ra bottom, he tries to break through enemy lines ay to show the plan to General Burke at headquarters. : WATTSTAX Distributor: Columbia Pictures. Cast: The Dramatics, The Staple Singers, ; Kim Weston, Jimmy Jones, Rance Allen Group, Carla Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Richard Pryor. Credits: Director: Mel Stuart. Producers: Larry Shaw and Mel Stuart. Executive Producers: Al Bell and David L. Wolper. Associate Producer: Forest Hamilton. Editors: Robert Lambert, David Newhouse and David Blewitt. Story: The film version of a seven-hour concert of music at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Wattstax depicts the Black ex: perience in music. Distributor: International Film Distributors Limited. Cast: Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, Stanley Holloway, Zsa Zsa Gabor. We've been having problems with Her Majesty’s mails too! The Canadian Film Digest is printed and mailed on the 5th of the month from October to June inclusive. A July-August Summer issue is published during the third week of July. The Yearbook is published the day after Labour Day. We mail from Oshawa, Ontario. It should take maximum one week to reach you. If it doesn’t, you know who to blame. RESULTS OF IMPORTANT SURVEY JUST IN! An exhausted survey among the owner and president of Quinn Laboratories, Mr. Findlay J. Quinn respectively, has just been digested by the computers, wheezing, hissing and zapockating. The key question in sub-section 18C, namely #319 a, b, c, & d, ran as ~ follows: “What, in your unprejudiced opinion, is the overwhelming causative factor in the unprecedented success of your film laboratory ; (a) because your people care more, (b) that your technological advances, both (bl) chemical and (b2) mechanical, have revolutionized film processing, (c) that your (cl) size and {¢2) ultra-modern ' procedures have resulted in (c3) faster, (c4) more accurate customer servicing, and that, (d) if given half a chance, you will do even better?” In a firm, clear and unequivocal gurgle, the computer printed out Mr. Quinn’s retort: “T like your style!” QUINN LABS 380 Adelaide Street West /Toronto 2/368-301 | VSM SER RR