Canadian Film Weekly (Mar 31, 1943)

Page scan 0004 from Canadian Film Weekly

Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly
Date:
Mar 31, 1943
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly (Mar 31, 1943)
Leaf #:
0004
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 Weekly

  • Editor: Hye Bossin (1942-64)
  • Renamed Canadian Film & TV Bi-Weekly (1965-69, editor: Stan Helleur)
  • Renamed Candian Film Weekly(1970, editor: Ed Hocura)

Canadian Film Weekly (1942-70) was edited by Hye Bossin and published by Film Publications of Canada, Ltd., wholly owned by leading exhibitor, Nat Taylor. In the late 1930s, Taylor was head of the Independent Theatre Association and his Toronto-based chain, Twinex-Century (Twentieth Century), was the largest independent circuit in the country. In 1941, however, he negotiated for chain affiliation with upstart Canadian Odeon before leveraging a better deal and greater booking control with nationally-dominant Famous Players Canada, Ltd. No longer independent, he took ownership of the Independent Theatre Association’s semi-monthly magazine, The Canadian Motion Picture Exhibitor (1940-41), installed Hye Bossin as editor, and laid plans to relaunch in January 1942 under a new name, Canadian Film Weekly. This enduring key publication was no longer solely focused on independent exhibitors but instead covered the entire industry on a national scale–exhibition, distribution and production–with some attention given to studio news from New York and Hollywood.

Bossin was a vibrant writer with a canny way with words, admired in the industry in the United States as well as Canada. He was one of a large family who lived above their father’s secondhand shop in the Jewish “ward” downtown in Toronto. His older brother was a bookie with ties to the underground; his younger brother was a famous journalist, protégé of Walter Winchell, and Hollywood screenwriter. In contrast, Hye spent nearly two decades learning the publishing trade in a printers’ shop before trying a stint as a Hollywood publicist, then writing a column for the Toronto Star Weekly before taking Taylor’s offer to edit the Film Weekly. Bossin was central to the creation of the Canadian Film Archive, the Canadian Film Awards, and he wrote some of the first histories of early cinema in Canada, published in the first volumes of the annual Canadian Film Weekly Year Book (1951-70).

In 1957, the Film Weekly had incorporated the rival Canadian Moving Picture Digest (1917-57), and began dating its start to that paper’s earlier start as the Canadian Universal Bulletin (1915-18). Subsequent variants of the Canadian Film Weekly and its yearbooks always claimed their roots all the way back to 1915 and the origins of the film industry trade press in Canada. After Bossin died in 1964, the Weekly’s new editor, Stan Helleur, renamed the magazine Canadian Film & TV Bi-Weekly, scaling back the pace of publishing but adding a purview for television and broadcasting. The annual was renamed similarly, its subtitle amended to “Year Book of the Canadian Entertainment Industry.” An attempted renewal to weekly format in 1970, edited by Ed Hocura, was short-lived and Nat Taylor decided instead to relaunch under an entirely new title, Canadian Film Digest (1971-77) and Canadian Film Digest Yearbook (1971-86).

– Paul Moore, March 2024

Further Reading

  • Bossin, Hye. “Canada and the Film: The Story of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry.” In Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry, 21-41. Toronto: Film Publications of Canada, 1951.
  • Moore, Paul. “Chronicling a National History: Hye Bossin’s Canadian Film Weekly and Year Book.” In Eric Hoyt and Kelley Conway, eds., Global Movie Magazines. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024.

Date Added:
August 01, 2024
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March 81, 1943 Suggestions For Care of Film The Toronto Film Board has expressed concern regarding the care and handling of film while in the hands of theatre staffs. The shortage of revisers and bad shipping conditions make it necessary for theatres to take every precaution in seeing that film is returned in good condition. The following suggestions should be a great help: (1) Censor bands should be securely attached to reels and be sure that the proper bands are on the proper reels. (2) Film should be rewound so that the reel is even, no single layers extending at the sides of. the reels. This is sometimes due to faulty or worn-out rewinders, and if shipped in this condition, they invarlably reach the exchange with the edges broken, and that makes it necessary to cut out broken parts. (3) In a number of instances, film is received from the exhibitor with unscraped and improperly made patches. This creates delay in rewinding and inspecting. (4) Film should be returned to the exchange immediately . after showing in the theatre. This is very important today as there are less means of transportation and more time is required between each shipment. If managers and exhibitors will take the above matters up with operators and employees, it will be of great aid to the industry as a whole. "Pimpernel’ Prize Offered 'Exhibs Producers Releasing Corp. has announced a managers’ exploitation contest based on the novelty of ideas used during the campaign on “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” the winner to receive $25.00. The judges are: Dan Krendel, supervisor of Famous Players; William Summerville, supervisor of B&F theatres; Charles Stephenson, publicity manager, EBA; and Clare Appel, publicity manager, Odeon theatres. Any information required can be obtained from Paul Maynard, Toronto branch manager. 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Norrish, Associated Screen News, Montreal, Que.—$25 War Savings Certificate donated by Mr. Paul Nathanson. 12410, Marie Keating, 90 Archibald St., Moncton, N.B.—$25 War Savings Certificate donated by Mr. Syd Taube. 2917, Myra Willinsky, 120 Madison Ave., Toronto, Ont.—$25 War Savings Certificate donated by Mr. Leo Schlesinger. 19521, Helen Bowes, 38 Cliff St., St. John, N.B.—$25 War Savings Certificate donated by Canadian Moving Picture Digest. 10675, C. H. Toope, C. P. Express Co., 11407-68 St., Edmonton, Alta.—$25 War Savings Certificate donated by General Films Ltd. 13612, Syd Roth, Hermant Building, 21 Dundas Sq., Toronto, Ont. —$25 War Savings Certificate donated by Mavety Film Delivery Service. 14051, Eddie Goldsmith, Monogram Pictures, 277 Victoria St., Toronto, Ont.—$25 War Savings Certificate donated by Sovereign Films Ltd. 15078, Mrs. May R. Gordon, 35 Don Valley Dr., Toronto, Ont.—$10 donated by General Theatre Supply Co, Ltd. 12403, M. L. 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