Canadian Film Digest (Dec 1973)

December 1973 “Movies: The NFB’s Cry of the Wild played | 225 theatres over the U.S., Thanksgiving weekend. Shot by Bill Mason, American distrib is American National Enterprises ... The Rainbow Boys, Potterton’s production, won a Bronze medal for best foreign film at the recent Atlanta Film Festival .. . Paperback Hero ran three days in Outlook Saskatchewan and racked up ticket sales of 1,224. Population is 1,400... The Sorrento Film Festival in Sorrento, Italy, September 1974, will feature Canada. Only one country per year is honoured; previously set were France, Sweden, Britain, Japan, and Germany. Program will highlight retrospectives, meetings, press conferences, and discussions. An exposition of Ontario High School films will be held March 6-8 at York University. Entries must be in to the Film Department by January 20. The address is Downsview Ontario , .. The Stratford Festival has been expanded by two more days. Fest will run from September 13-22 next year. People: Alex L. Clarke has appointed P.C. Wu as Marketing Manager in Canada .. . Bob Crone has started his own entertainment: consulting business. . . . Maureen O’Donnell of Columbia in Toronto attended a special marketing meeting in New York. Purpose was to figure out how to maintain high grosses through Christmas for The Way We Were. Lorne Greene may play Dr. Norman Bethune for Italian producer Carlo Lizzani. Pic would be shot in Canada ... Ben Arbeid, British producer (The Go-Between) was in Toronto to advise newly formed financial group August Films . . . Micheline Lanctot was an animator for Potterton Productions. The office was next door to Gille’s Carles’. The rest is history ... Doug McCullough, Ontario culture head for the government, has come out in favor of a quota on Canadian films ... Daniel Petrie’s Buster and Billie, set in 1948 Georgia, has been picked up by Columbia. Daryl Henry wrote Vrooder’s Hooch for liow Canadian Arthur Hiller, and will appear in a small part. The last time he acted was in university dramatics in Toronto ... The National Association of Concessionnaires has redivided its regions, and Canada now has two reps. J.F. Senior remains for the West and Sydney Spiegel of Super Pufft will rep. for the East ,.. Because there has been no agreement for three years on actors crossing the border between Canada and the U.S., Canada is becoming tougher and allowing only stars in. The U.S. is not happy .. . ACTRA’s Christmas party featured an amateur hour by the members ... An Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op, modelled after the one in Toronto, was formed in August. They’re looking for scripts. The address is 1144 Tower Road, Halifax. Season’s Greetings! Our Season’s Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year. From the Sarnia Theatre Managers’ Association, of BluewaterlandSarnia, Ontario. Bob Cleminson — Ross Chapman: — Al McEwewn. of -_ Rk EIT RAE ES BIR RA IAA | DantonFilms 2 DAVISVILLE AVE., TORONTO Den Weinzweig, Gea. Mgr, Harold Bell, Sales Mgr Domestic Notes People, Places and Events from Across Canada | Compliments Season from SN Limited a Phone (416) 484-1888 ™” a Vancouver: Vi Hosterd. (604) 732-7421 POE ER PEE BS PIES ES IIE PII SES ETS I IE I ES ESTE IS OS BEES The Canadian Film Digest Focus On: Lillian Gish Miss Lillian Gish was in Toronto to promote the publication of her new book, Dorothy and Lillian Gish, for John Wiley and Sons. She offered these comments in the midst of an awe-inspiring schedule. Crawley’s has produced over 2,200 films to date, not counting filmstrips and commercials. 500 of these are in French ... An error in information in our Yearbook should be cleared up. Danton Films telephone numbers are incorrectly listed. The 35mm number is 484-1888 and the 16mm number is 487-4446 ... Global TV, the new network, is putting money into films, It has a stake in Duddy Kravitz... And ~ Odeon Theatres owns about 12 percent of the Global stock. WOMPI held their ‘‘Top of the List’’ Wine and Cheese party at the Variety Club clubrooms in Toronto on December 5th. One hundred and fifty guests attended ... CFDC head Michael Spencer is in India to sell Canadian films. This is the first attempt by the CFDC to interest markets abroad in Canadian films. He took with him Isabel, Goin’ Down the Road, and Face Off, among others ... IMAX plans to make a 3-D IMAX pic ... A new production financing consortium has been started. Called Six Hussars, it is Canadian directed. Robert McGuirk is head. Mainly Canadian money, but U.S. and Swiss are involved too. First project is “a deal with British producer Harry Field for a spaghetti western ... Production: Duddy Kravitz has wound up shooting. It used 55 actors, 500 extras, 75 sites including the house next to Mordecai Richler’s birthplace, and 100 old vehicles. Sounds like Hollywood ... Gerald Mayer will produce 26 half hours of Swiss Family Robinson. The deal is between Trident of the U.K. and Freemantle of Canada. Filming will take place in Jamaica © and at Toronto’s Kleinberg Studios. Associate producer will be Alan Bromley, Production * Manager will be Marilyn Stonehouse, and Harry Makin will handle the cinematography .... Briston Films of Montreal has declared bankruptcy. ia fk Post-production: Michel Brault’s Les Ordres, made for $250,000 in Montreal and regions, and produced by Prisma productions ... Jacques Godbout’s La Gammick at the NFB ... Ferdinand Rivard’s Les Oranges d’Israel .... Andre Brassard’s I] Etait une Fois dans L’est ... And in Vancouver Jack Darcus js editing Wolf Pen Principle and George McCowan is editing The Inbreaker... | Gilles Carle’s next film will be called Nothing .. Claude Jutra’s next, from his own scenario, will be called Pour Le Meilleur .... Both are scheduled to be shot this winter ... Dusan Makavejev is making Sweet Movie in Europe. A French-Quebec co-production between Mojak Films of Montreal and Filmanthrope of Paris, it stars Carol Laure and John Vernon. Season’s,Greetings! Our Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year.: From Barney and Helen Simmons of the Fox Cinema, Victoria, British Columbia. Season’s Greetings! Best Wishes and Season's Greetings from the management and staff of the Strand Theatre, Deep River, Ontario. : the UR L oe Dae, ee ee wo SE RARTRA RR RAAT ERAT RRR RERERE Page 5 On her sister Dorothy: In my book I wanted to set down Dorothy’s career. Nobody ever had. She was a much better actress than I ever was. She had the gift of comedy, so rare in truly feminine women, but she wanted to play tragedy. On her book: It’s a history of entertainment of this century. It’s bigger than any one person. Films are still in their babyhood; they are our living history. We are the first generation tq leave behind our past. On films today: We need films with good taste. Everyone knows there is garbage, but do you want to see it in movies? We need human stories. All we’re getting now is Whodunits and car crashes. They’re all right, but you can’t take a steady diet. On silent films: That was the height of filmmaking. You could “tell in twenty-five feet in silents vat it takes one hundred feet to say in talkies. A lot of my audience is young people. They see the silent films and they mean something to them. On her life and work: I wouldn’t know what to do if I retired. I can’t remember before I was five and all I remember is that I worked all my life. I didn’t make up my mind to do any particular thing, either. I was put there and it happened. ’ OS Be ee 6 ete A