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Vol. 10, No. 49
A VOICE of the CANADIAN MOTION PICTURE
TORONTO, DECEMBER 5, 1945
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INDUSTRY
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International Pixto Nathanson
Rank, Universal, Goetz and Spitz
Found United World Pictures
Future product of the Spitz-Goetz International Pictures Company Inc., now an RKO distribution affiliate, will be handled in the Dominion by the Nathanson film-selling setup, it was revealed through an announcement made pub
Jolley, MPTOA, On Gab Junket
Arch H. Jolley, executive-secretary of the Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario, is visiting various points in the province on a good-will tour and addressing service clubs wherever he goes. He has already spoken in London, Cobourg, Sud
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Sunday Service
Shows to End
Free Sunday shows for men and women of the armed services, undertaken at the request of military officials during the summer of 1943, will end just before Christmas after having provided entertainment for about 400,000 movie fans in uniform.
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20th Century Plans Sudbury Theatre
Sudbury, Ontario, will have a new 1,000-seat motion picture theatre as soon as possible, it is announced by N. A. Taylor, president of United Century Theatres Limited. It will be operated as a 20th Century Theatre. The Grand and Regent theatres ef Sudbury are also 20th Century houses.
United Century Theatres Limited is controlled jointly by Famous Players Canadian Corporation and Twentieth Century Theatres. Its formation was announced last July and it exercised control over eight houses.
Nova Scotia Censor Says Films Better
“When people send their children to see pictures which are too adult for them I feel very strongly that it is not the fault of the theatres or the films but that it is the parents’ sole responsibility,” stated S. E. Doane, chief of
the Nova Scotia Board of Censors, while on a recent visit to the Maritime film exchange centre at Saint John, New Brunswick.
Doane visited all the motion picture exchanges and also held a conference with Frank C. Owens, chairman of the New Brunswick Board of Censors. The censor bodies in the two Maritime provinces operate along different lines.
In New Brunswick Owens works together with three other censors. He also has the duty of
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Plan New Theatre For Port Stanley
Plans are being made for the construction of a $25,000 movie theatre at Port Stanley, Ontario, summer resort on Lake Erie.
Although participants in the project have not been named it is known that the new theatre is one of several developments designed to secure for the lakeside resort a share of the increased tourist trade expected in 1946. A new $100,000 luxury hotel is also being planned.
lic on this side of the border by Leonard W. Brockington,
.C., Canadian representative of J. Arthur Rank. The switch, result of a merger involving Rank, International and Universal, will apply to a minimum of eight films.
A new world-wide distribution organization to be known as “United World Pictures Company Ine.” is being formed to distribute at least eight features each
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Wes Hunter Passes
Wes Hunter, well-known Toronto projectionist, died in Brampton, Ontario, recently, after a lengthy illness.
Dominion Bureau
Explains 16 Mm.
An explanation of the apparent discrepancy between 16 mm. receipts and rentals in 1944, as issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and printed by the Canadian Film Weekly, was offered recently by A. C. Steedman, chief of the Merchandising and
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Brooke Claxton An Active Man
The Honorable Brooke Claxton, K.C., Minister of National Health and Welfare, who was recently appointed chairman of the National Film Board, was born in Montreal in 1898 and received his education there.
After a year at McGill Univer
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Gratis Sub Prints Asked in Sask’n
Elimination of censorship fees on subsequent prints by the Theatres and Cinematographs branch of the Department of the Provincial Secretary of the Province of Saskatchewan is being suggested by the trade as a means of maintaining
Lou Lodge, Sr., Dies Through (Accident
Louis Lodge, projectionist at the Bloor Theatre, Toronto, died last week, as a result of an accident when a street car on which he was a _ passenger, collided with an army truck. His son, Louis Lodge, Jr., is projectionist at Loew’s, Toronto.
Disney's Wonderland
Walt Disney will produce “Alice in Wonderland” as a combined live action-cartoon movie feature.
the present methods of censorship and shipping.
On November 1st the censorship of films intended for exhibition in Saskatchewan was begun in Regina instead of Winnipeg, upsetting an arrangement which had endured for 27 years and around which the present distribution structure grew. The Saskatchewan censor was previously located in the Manitoba capital because it is the distribution centre for the territory and it is said that $2,000 was expended annually for the right to use the Winnipeg facilities.
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