Canadian Film Weekly (Sep 6, 1944)

7 [LUAAYW VOICE of the prone’ MOTION PICTURE AS CER EARS INDUSTRY Vol 9, No. 36 TORONTO, SEPTEMBER 6, 1944 52.00 Per Annum Indie Definition Is Disputed Film Men Plan Golf Tourney A. golf tournament, to be held at a links near Toronto and open to anyone in Canada connected with the motion picture industry, is being planned by a committee. It will be sponsored by Canadian Film Weekly. The date will be sometime near the end of Sep Conciliation Proposals Accepted Generally Proposals for Regional Conciliation Boards in Canada, with an Appeal Board located in Toronto, as drafted seve yal months ago at a Toronto meeting of exhibitors and distributors, have been studied by several exhibitors’ associations and amendments suggested. Executive officers of Quebec Allied Theatrical Industries recently weighed the proposals and offered recommen Plenty of Films For Allied PsW Indie Producers See Boom Ahead Divorcement of production and exhibition in the USA, if accomplished, may have a powerful effect on theatre and production expansion, according to Sol Lesser, a leading Independent. film maker. Given a chance to compete on the open market for play tember. (Continued on Page 3) 5,000 Post-War Houses in USA There are many indications that a theatre-building boom of an unprecedented nature will get under way in the United States with the end of the war. Cana Prisoners of war in Germanoccupied territories are finding solace and diversion in the motion pictures brought to them by the War Prisoners Aid Committee of the World’s Alliance of Young Men’s Christian Associations, with headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland. (Continued on Page 4) Calladine Sells Out dian theatre men, busy with their Ralph Calladine has sold his own post-war plans, have given share of the Rio and Plaza, Viclittle thought to what effect this oria, B.C. houses, to Odeon Theatres, his partner for several years. may haye on Canada, (Continued on Page 11) Quebec Case Bears On Vital Issue Legal opposition to the Quebec law which bans children under 16 from motion picture theatres may reach the Privy Council in London, according to Ben Garson, circuit chief, who is leading the fight. Garson, who has invested thousands of dollars in contesting = ——_—_—_—_——_ the law in spite of adverse New Technique rulings by Quebec courts, P N di maintains that it is unconor Newsreels? Stitutional and is resolved to go as far as he can to establish that as a fact. He is also questioning ing changing the present format the powers of Quebec censors. of newsreel presentation to one Any ruling which may originate that more closely resembles the in the Privy Council will have nadocumentary pattern of “March tional application. of Time,”’ “World in Action,” or The law which bans children ‘This Is America.’ Whether the was passed in 1927 after a disas‘Shorts would still be called news (Continued on Page 11) reels is uncertain, Some of the major newsreel companies are reported consider Gypsy Wildcat | dations for altering several articles. Their findings will be placed before the general body, which will hold its annual meeting at the Mount Royal Hotel, Montreal on September 20. According to Article I, of the proposals. “The (Continued on Page 3) ing time on those circuits now (Continued on Page 4) CKCL in New Hands CKCL, Toronto radio station, acquired last week by Jack Cooke and associates, has become CKEY. Station ads proclaim straight entertainment policy. clause a mem-~ 7 ee } Censorship industry and Canada as a whole is developing as a re sult of the decision of Ben Garson, president of Wellington Theatre Limited, Quebec, to fight those Quebec rulings which ban children under 16 from the theatres of that province and provide the censor with power. Quebec courts have ruled against Garson, who, with Jules Laine, operates nine theatres. He will appeal to the Privy Council in London. A favourable decision may upset the censorship structure of each province and bring an exact definition of the power of censors. It is Garson’s claim that the Quebec laws are unconstitutional. The fight is attracting widespread newspaper attention. The press has been quick to recognize the possible effect. Following is an editorial which appeared in the Edmonton Bulletin and a number of other newspapers: Aiscese battle of utmost importance to the motion picture validity of a Quebec law forbidding admittance of children years of age to moving picture theatres is being tested in an action now before Quebec courts. It has been announced that the case will be taken to the Privy Council for final decision. One point in the reference to the power of provincial authorities to censor films, will be of interest Canada to both the film industry and the general public. Appealing convictions registered under the act against the Verdun Palace Theatre, counsel for the theatre claims that the act is ultra vires under the B.N.A., because it attempts to control trade and commerce in a field not exclusively in the province, that it affects the exercise of civil rights within the province and that (Continued on Page 3) The under sixteen case, ACTOSS Maria Montez, more eared, tears snbacdies. iis eves? 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