Canadian Film Weekly (Oct 24, 1945)

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Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly
Date:
Oct 24, 1945
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly (Oct 24, 1945)
Leaf #:
0007
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 22, 2024
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Page 8 Canadian FILM WEEKLY October 24, 1945 OK Groupings of Help Head Warhorse Renials of 16 Mm. Towards Barn (Continued from Page 1) Ten Companies (Continued from Page 1) Eagle-Lion Films of Canada Limited. Specials—4; Group A— 10; Group B—6; Group C—4. Monogram Pictures of Oanada Limited. Specials—10; Group A— 12; Group B—12; Westerns—12. Paramount Film Service Limited. Hal Wallis Productions—2; Specials—2; Group A—6; Group B—10; Group C—6. Producers Releasing Corporations. Specials—8; Group A—8; Group B—8; Group C—10; West “erns—14, Regal Films _ Corporation (MGM). Group A—6; Group B— 10; Group C—10; Group D—12; Group E—Balance. RKO Distributing Corporation of Canada. International Pictures Inc.—4; Specials—7; Group A— 10; Group B—8; Group C—8; Group D—10; Group E—9. Twentieth Century-Fox Corporation. Specials—6; Group A—12; Group B—14; Group C—Balance. Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Company, Ltd. Specials—6; Group A—4; Group B—8; Group C—6; Group D—2. Orson Welles’ Role Orson Welles has accepted a small part as a magician in the RKO Harold Lloyd starrer, “The Sin of Harold Diddlebock.” MAGI! = _ — oS ANAANA AT oF .* Sk Oe S38 GET YOU e . — a the fact that there will not be another Loan for a year is recognized as a personal inducement for increased buying and a powerful sales argument. Chief screen aid to the campaign is the Paramount all-star short, “Hollywood Victory Caravan.” A NFB short, narrated by Claude Rains, is also winning much interest in theatres, as are a number of news clips. An exploitation and publicity manual, compiled by James Nairn of the Motion Picture War Services Committee, is now in the hands of exhibitors and lobbies and advertising reflect its guidance. “Hollywood Bond Caravan” contains the following lines by the Honorable J. L. Ilsley, minister of finance, in its credits: “Once again I wish to express © Canada’s appreciation to the Motion Picture Industry for its assistance in a Canadian Victory Loan. “This picture was made possible by the whole-hearted and generous co-operation of stars, craftsmen, producers, distributors and exhibitors through their War Activities Committee in Hollywood and their War Services Committee in Canada — so R SHARE | ; for There'll be counter attractions galore to the public’s dollar. having our So DOMINION SOUND is you Dominion Sound Equipments ur share by pod Get yo a] its best. pod und Equipment at 3} r safeguard. wv Limited Head O or marinas tosonro wie eontort (fice; 1620 Notre Dame Street West, Montreal e iG e1cime corceer eencour ” such os maintained by Dominion A National Theatre ata sees organization with a Sound Equipments Lim 3 gcially trained personne fechnical service, eqv'/P™ nel fo provide regular ond emergency i ent and supplies for theatres. i 2 that this may indeed be Canada’s greatest Victory Loan.” Contact your provincial chairman for any information or help you may require. Here are the men for each province: Alberta—K. M. Leach, Strand, Calgary. British Columbia — Howard Boothe, Odeon Theatres Ltd., Vancouver. Manitoba — James Stevenson, Western Theatres Ltd., Winnipeg. New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island — Reg March, 20th Century-Fox, 12 Hazen Ave., Saint John. : Saskatchewan—W. Winterton, Capital, Saskatoon; F. Willis, Capitol, Regina. Nova Scotia — R. S. Roddick, Capitol, Halifax. Ontario—N. A. Taylor, 20th Century Theatres Ltd., 21 Dundas Square, Toronto; Herb Allen, Theatre Holding Corp., 72 Carlton Street, Toronto. Quebec—Hugene Beaulac, Quebec Allied Theatrical Industries, 323 University Tower, Montreal. The provincial chairmen are members of the Motion Picture Section of the National War Finance Committee, of which the national chairman is J. J: Fitzgibbons, Famous Players Canadian Corp., Royal Bank Building, Toronto; and the secretary Ray Lewis, 277 Victoria Street, Toronto. Motion Picture Section of the National War Finance Committee is part of the Canadian Motion Picture War Services Committee. The executive members of the latter are: J. J. Fitzgibbons, president; Ray Lewis, secretary; R. W. Bolstad, treasurer; Herb Allen, Harry Alexander, Eugene Beaulac, T. J. Bragg, Haskell Masters, Col. J. A. Cooper, L. M. Devaney, Ben Freedman, Oscar Hanson, M. A. Milligan, H. L. Nathanson, A. W. Perry, L. Rosenfeld, Morris Stein and N. A. Taylor. Members of the Public Relations Committee are C. J. Appel, Hye Bossin, Ben Geldsaler, Ray Lewis, James R. Nairn, Morris Stein and N. A. Taylor. Publicity and Exploitation Committee is comprised of Win Barron, Dewey Bloom, Ben Cronk, George Degnon, Harvey Harnick, Sam Glasier and Glenn Ireton. ‘Jiggs and Maggie' Monogram Pictures will produce two “Jiggs and Maggie” comedies per year through an agreement with King Features, distributors of the famous cartoon strip. rn ns ee Le Close to Million (Continued from Page 1) tion with set showing days and times. Total take during 1944 was $286,008, which, when amusement taxes of $56,556 are added for the purpose of comparison with 1943 and 1942, comes to a grand gross of $342,564. In 1943 operators using 16 mm. equipment grossed $230,404 and in 1942 $164,109, figures for both years including the amusement tax. Figures for operation in prior years are: 1941—$131,267; 1940—$159,346. Thus in 1944 the receipts, including amusement taxes, of 16 mm. exhibitors increased by $112,160 over 1943, and in 1943 receipts showed a gain of $66,295 over 1942. Since 1941 16 mm. receips have increased by more than 100 per cent in the Dominion. The total increase for Itinerants of both classifications, 16 and 35 mm., was $96,445 over 1943. Itinerant exhibitors of 35 mm. films are apparently losing ground to 16 mm. men, their 1944 gross being $62,428 compared with $78,153 in 1943, a decline last year of $15,725. In 1944 116 Itinerants showed 16 mm. to 1,189,223 admissions, compared with 88 and 820,389 admissions in 1943. Although the number of 35 mm. Itinerants in 1944, 15, was an increase of four over 1943, their receipts declined, as shown above. According to the report of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, rentals for 16 mm. films during 1944 totalled $967,179. Army camps and hostels must have provided a considerable part of this. Famous Managers Hear Arch Jolley Monthly meeting of Famous Players Theatre Managers (Toronto) Association was held in the King Edward, October 9th. Guest speaker Arch H., Jolley, executive secretary of the Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario, gave a talk on the activities and. future plans of the association. Fire Marshal Gets NS Inspection Job Inspection of motion picture projection rooms in Nova Scotia has been made the responsibility of the Fire Marshal branch of the Provincial Department of Labor, This was formerly the duty of the Nova Scotia Board of CenSors but the change was decided upon at a joint meeting of the board and the Fire Marshal Branch,