Canadian Film Weekly (Jun 14, 1944)

Page scan 0000 from Canadian Film Weekly

Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly
Date:
Jun 14, 1944
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly (Jun 14, 1944)
Leaf #:
0000
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",Canad
Collection:
Canada, Hollywood Studio System, and Global Cinema
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 08, 2024
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

<') ~~ a4 > d Vol. 9, No. 24 VOICE of the TORONTO, JUNE 14, CANADIAN MOTION PICTURE 74 — A 1944 INDUSTRY $2.00 Per Annum Biz Hopped 12 Per Cent in ’43 Annual Survey Shows 19 New Theatres During Year Gov t Committee Talks Television The future of television in Canada occupied considerable discussion during the various meetings in Ottawa of the Special Committee on Radio Broadcasting. Questions of certain members revealed a suspicion that large corporations and movie companies were deliberately im (Continued on Page 11) WPTB Lifts Lid on Closed Theatres The Wartime Prices and Trade Board announced last week the removal of its ban on the use of any premises for the public exhibition of moving pictures for profit which were not actually in use for that purpose on January 31, 1942. (Continued on Page 4) Pelly Buys House M. Pelly, after operating the Windsor Theatre, St. Vital, Quebec, on a lease-management basis for a year, has purchased the property. Plan New Theatre in Port Alberni, B.C. Mrs. I. Warren and H. Warren of the apitol Theatre, Alberni, B.C. have acquired pro perty-in that town for the postI J I war erection of a 900-seat theatre, with allowances for television. Creasy Makes the ‘Honored Hundred’ Harry Creasy, who used to manage the Capitol Theatre, Kamloops, B.C., before moving to Riverside, California, was chosen one of the “Honored Hundred” in the last USA War Loan. Man From Frisco It's a sure-fire natural for showmen. Port « Preliminary results of the annual survey of motion picture theatres in Canada for 1943 reveal an increase of nearly 12 cent in value of net receipts compared with 1942. SYD B. TAUBE Executive secretary of the Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario, who will supervise the organization of Farm Commando brigades throughout the province. His services have been arranged for by the Department of Labor, Ottawa, with the co-operation of the Association. Last year Taube handled publicity in the Toronto area for Farm Commando recruiting. . Levey in Town Jules Levey, ex-~-Torontonian, well-known Hollywood producer, was in Toronto last week. Timmins Renovation The Goldfields Theatre, Timmins, Ontario, built in 1924, has been altered and thoroughly renovated. per cent in number of admissions and 13 per Admissions to motion picture theatres numbered 205,210,170 in 1943 compared with 183, 735,258 in 1942, while box on “receipts excliatya of all taxes amounted to $52,475,570 in 1948 and $46,461,097 in 1942. Taxes collected on motion picture theatre admissions for the federal and provincial governments amounted to $13,326,478, (Continued on Page 2) Bill Smith Bereaved Mrs. Mary Jane Smith, mother of Bill Smith of Empire-Universal, passed away last week. Dunn UA Pub Head James Dunn will become head of publicity for United Artists under Louis Pollock. Premier Drew on USA Motion Pix Speaking of the influence of various mediums of expression on Canadian public opinion before the Canadian Periodical Press Association in Toronto last week, Premier George Drew of Ontario mentioned films as being without native character. Much of what comes into (Continued on Page 2) Balaban, Zukor at FPCC Pow-Wow Paramount’s leading’ executive officers were present at the June 6, 7 and 8 meeting’ of Famous Players Canadian Corporation at Niagara Falls, Ontario. Those from the parent company were Barney Balaban, president; Adolph Zukor, chairman of the (Continued on Page 11) Can Trudell Wins Ontario Scrap Book Contest William K. Trudell, manager of the Capitol Theatre, London, was awarded first prize in the Ontario section of the Scrap Book Contest conducted by the Canadian Motion War SOUCIE, ROUYN WINS IN P.Q. T. C. Soucie, manager of the Alexander Theatre, Rouyn, ‘was the winner of the Scrap Book Contest in Quebec. jl=gel: E Picture Services Trow, Imperial, Three Rivers, won second prize and the third award went to E. A. and A. Fassio, Rex and Capitol, Lachute. Committee for the Sixth Victory Loan. eee: with winning a a victory bond, the book vill be entered in the contest for all Canada, for which there is a $100 prize as will the other two prize wi inners. Second prize of a ings certificate we Daley, manager of the | Toronto; and the third prize of a $10 war savings certificate landed in the lap of Stan W. Andrews, Broadway, Timmins. Scrap books which won honorable mention came from Les (Continued on Page 9) is REPUBLIC’S great drama featuring Michael O'Shea, Ann Shirley and Gene Lockhart. It is now doing excellent business at Toronto’s ace de luxe theatre, the Uptown. Book this romantic dram: now through EMPIRE-UNIVERSAL.