Canadian Film Weekly (Oct 2, 1946)

Page scan 0000 from Canadian Film Weekly

Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly
Date:
Oct 2, 1946
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly (Oct 2, 1946)
Leaf #:
0000
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 14, 2025
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.

7% of the CANADIAN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY TORONTO, OCTOBER 2, 1916 Tent 28 Offers Gratis Movie A very substantial sum, to be devoted entirely to charity, will be realized by the Variety Club of Toronto, Tent No. 28, for the exhibition of ‘‘The Mapleville Story,” a short subject produced by Associated Screen News judged as having suitable en (Continued on Page 3) More Drive-ins Being Readied Canada’s third drive-in theatre was opened at Windsor, Ontario, recently by Skyway Drive-in Theatres, Limited, Toronto, which company inaugurated that type of exhibition in this country earlier this year at Stoney Creek, near Hamilton, Ontario. It plans AudioTo! wild St Other Groups Plan Permanent Structures For Production Excavation has been completed and construction begun on a one-storey build.ng for Audio Pictures Limited and Film Laboratories of Canada at 310 Lakeshore Road, in the Township of Etobicoke, 11 miles from the heart of Toronto. Kershaw Heads Candy Co'y Frank Kershaw has been made president of Service Confections Limited by Harry Lahman, head of Canadian Automatic Confections Limlted. The company will handle confection and popcorn installations in western Canada from Kershaw’s office in Vancouver. Winnipeg has an office in charge of B. Penny and one.. will be opened in Calgary. Announcement indicates aliynment of several companies formerly competitive. Kershaw has had extensive experience in theatre operation and the confection field. To be of the most modern design, it will contain a film studio, a recording studio, laboratory facilities and an office and will be ready for use in May of 1947. The companies will occupy 16,000 square feet and the structure will be 100 feet long, 60 feet wide and 22 feet to the ceiling. Cost is estimated to be $100,000. Its completion will mark the (Continued on Pease 8) udio And Lab $2.00 Per Annum Pic Pioneers To Hold Film Ball Motion picture industry event of the social season will be the movie ball and carnival attended by the Canadian Picture Pioneers and friends at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, on the evening of November 23rd. Dress will be optional and the price is eight (Continued on Page 3) Mono Buys ‘Cocaine’ With the change in the Production Code, amending the drug traffic clause, Monogram has announced the purchase of Cornell Woolrich’s story, ‘‘Cocaine.” Ottawa's Centre Has World Premiere (Continued on Page 3) Sourkes Operates Checking Unit Canada’s first checking agency has been in operation in the Province of Quebec for several months and has been shown to be so efficient that it is not unlikely that it will be extended to other parts of the Dominion in the future. Irving Sourkes, Montreal i : Cass Again Prexy veteran of the exhibition and distribution fields, is reOf Toronto Board Abe Cass of Columbia was sponsible for its organization re-elected. president of the Tor and he spent some time recently in Toronto, home office city Of onto Film Board of Trade and Harry Bailey of Twentieth Cen the film exchange companies, during which he discussed his tyry-Fox succeeded Mark Plottel, formerly of RKO and now of newest enterprise with top men. Of late the company’s CoITeSmpire-Universal, as vice-president. Ed Wells remains as (Continued on Page 10) secretary. ‘Valley Of Fear’ Credit committee is comprised Shooting has been completed of Bailey, Russell Simpson of on Monogram’s “The Valley of Paramount and Irvin Coval of Fear,” which stars Johnny Mack Warner Brothers. Irving Cohen Brown and Raymond Hatton. of PRC is fire marshal. Scene shows the crowd and military band in front of the Centre Theatre, Ottawa, at the world premiere of “Theirs Is the Glory,” the picture of the famed attack by 10,000 members of the British First Airborne Division at Arnhem, Holland. Carrying no credits of any kind, the film shows the rescue of the 2,000 survivers by the Royal Canadian Engineers with all parts taken by actual members of both units. Only women in the feature-length film are members of the Dutch underground re-enacting their share of the battle. The feature is being distributed by EagleLion Films and will attract the interest of all Canadians, who remember the Arnhem saga as one of the war's great adventures, | (o) Mark Hellinger’s production of Ernest Hemingway's story, “The Killers,” is being @ g @rs hailed as the most sensational melodrama in many a year. Now in its second week if s em Iat at the Uptown, Toronto, it’s holding over everywhere and jamming lobbies and streets day and night. It’s from E! “UNIVERSAL FILMS, Get this unprecedented boxoffice attraction dated now