Canadian Film Digest (Dec 1976)

Page scan 00067 from Canadian Film Digest

Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Digest
Date:
Dec 1976
Volume:
Canadian Film Digest (Dec 1976)
Leaf #:
00067
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:
June 20, 2024
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NAMES FRANK MANCUSO, President and General Manager of Paramount Pictures Corporation (Canada) Ltd., |eft Toronto in August to become Western Division Manager, Paramount Pictures, based in Los Angeles. WAYNE LaFORREST, Western Canada Division Manager, Paramount Pictures Corporation (Canada) Ltd., Calgary for 3% years, transferred in August to become Toronto Branch Manager. ROBERT LIGHTSTONE is now General Manager of Paramount Pictures Corporation (Canada) Ltd., in Toronto. PHILIP CARLTON, Toronto Branch Manager of Warner Bros. since 1971, promoted to Canadian District Manager in September. DOUG OUDERKIRK, Advertising and Publicity Director, Twentieth CenturyFox Film Corporation in Toronto, transferred to its office in Atlanta, Georgta, on November 1 as Director of Publicity and Promotion. DIANNE SCHWALM appointed Canadian Director of Advertising and Publicity, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation in Toronto, November 1. She joined Fox in 1974. GLADYS RAWNSLEY, the untiring and efficient office support of the Canadian Picture Pioneers and the Motion Picture Theatre Associations, collapsed with a stroke in her apartment on November 18. Her many friends will be glad to know she is progressing well in St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. JOB PLACEMENT A reminder that the Toronto Filmmakers’ Co-operative, 67 Portland Street, Toronto M5V 2M9, Tel. (416) 366-3005, runs a Job Placement Office for production personnel. It’s been very successful in nine months of operation. Contact Lacia Kornylo by ‘phone, or drop in. 66 canadian film digest Charles Mason, the 53-year-old director of advertising and public relations for Odeon Theatres (Canada) Limited, died NEWS FESTIVALS The 23rd West German Shortfilm Festival takes place in the Town Hall of Oberhausen, April 25-30, 1977, preceded by the 9th Information Festival of short films from the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin, April 22—24. Closing date for entries is April 1, 1977. Regulations and application forms available from the Festival Offices, Grillostr. 34, 4200 Oberhausen 1, W. Germany. Hemisfilm ‘77, an international film festival in its 11th year, takes place in San Antonio, Texas, next February. It is sponsored by the International Fine Arts Center of the Southwest. Marie Brenner, author and film critic, will chair the national panel of judges. There are eleven prize categories, and the entry deadline is January 19, 1977. Details from IFACS, A recent re-recording session for R/TUALS at Bellevue Pathe Sound Studios in December 8, 1976 from a heart attack. Mason joined J.Arthur Rank in England in 1948 and was transferred to Canada in 1955. He was an avid sailor and a member of several organizations including Variety Club and Rotary. 2700 Cincinnati Avenue, San Antonio, Texas 78284. (Tel: (512) 436-3209.) THE MOVIE WORKS For the past few months, John Foster has been organizing The Movie Works, a private club where the show business industry can meet. The proposed building on Church Street (south of Carlton) in Toronto will house an extensive gym with saunas, squash courts and whirlpools and also a games room. Among other facilities offered are a dining room — The Fine Cut, a large beer hall — The Final Mix and a private dining-screening room — The Roxy Room. The Movie Works is scheduled to open early in the new year. Three classes of membership are available. Write or call John Foster at 112% McGill Street, Toronto M5B 1H6, (416) 368-0437 Photograph by Christopher Darling. Toronto. Left to right: Austin Grimaldi, sound re-recordist; Hal Holbrook, star of the film; Vern Furber, president, Astra/ Television; Peter Carter, director; M.M. Stevenson, president, Astra/ Films Limited; Lawrence Dane, producer.