Canadian Film Weekly (Nov 16, 1955)

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Page 4 FILM ESTIMATES (Continued from Page 1) which, we think, can be won over to films in time,’ Mrs. M. Wallace McCutcheon, chairman of the Film Estimate Board of National Organizations, told the delegates and guests at the annual meeting in the Chez Paree in Toronto. Mrs. McCutcheon, whose Board issues the Canadian Estimates of Selected Entertainment Films, better known as the “Blue Sheet,” welcomed those in attendance in her opening speech and mentioned that the 60 delegates from 11 member groups represented over half-a-million women across Canada. She pointed out that each evaluation of a film was the condensation of the reports of from 30 to 40 individuals, thus practically excluding the possibility of an estimate being an “opinion.” She read a number of excerpts from the hundreds of letters received by the Board from libraries, radio broadcasters, departments of education or their ministers and editors of periodicals. The principles and aims of the “Blue Sheet’ were given by Mrs. McCutcheon as “the belief that motion pictures do provide real entertainment for both children and grown ups and to seek out better films and talk about them positively as widely as possible.” After being introduced by the chairman, Clare Appel, executive director of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association, thanked the ladies for the work they were doing and pointed out motion picture censors, who are paid for their work, had shown an unbelievable diversity of opinion from province to province. Therefore, the screening committee should not become discouraged if it found that its members, who were unpaid volunteers, were at odds with one another at times about reviews. Elections resulted in Mrs. McCutcheon being returned as chairman, Mrs. Oscar C. Burritt as vice-chairman, Mrs. W. R. Stott as secretary and Miss Edith M. Collins as treasurer. Committee chairmen named were Mrs. R. C. Smith-Bingham, distribution; Mrs. Burritt, editorial; Mrs. George L. Dunn, screening; and Mrs. Barry Gordon, public relations. Among the guests from the film industry were Walter Kennedy, Empire-Universal; Irving Herman, Warner Bros.; Charles Mason, Odeon Theatres; Bert Brown, Famous Players; Archie Laurie, United Artists; Barney Simmons, Towne Cinema; Sam Glasier, 20th-Fox; Chet Friedman, MGM; Max Chic, Canadian Moving Picture Digest; and Ben Halter, Canadian Film Weekly. CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY | News Clips | Series of articles about Hollywood personalities and doings by Sydney Johnston is running in The Montreal Star. The first article was an interview with Dore Schary .. . Walter E. Branson, world-wide sales manager for RKO, has been elected vice-president in charge of distribution .. . Screen classics along art lines are doing strong business for the Sunland, Osoyoos, BC. JARO's Hamlet opened the policy ... Rutgers Neilson has resigned as foreign publicity director for RKO... USA Justice Department suit against distributors for “conspiracy” to withold 16 mm. features from TV, heard in LA Federal Court, has ended. Introduction of a new neutral density filter to reduce the amount of light reaching its new 16 mm. Tri-X CP Reversal Film has been announced by Kodak because of the exceptionally high speed of the film. The light reduction of the filter, to be known as Kodak ND-3 Filter, will be equivalent to three lens stops . .. Successful competition involving a gold watch as the prize was run by J. R. Chalmers, manager of the Odeon in Ottawa, to help buy a bus for the Ottawa Handicapped Rehabilitation Association. Maynard Gray, formerly projectionist at the Plaza in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, has been named supervisor of Rothstein Theatres’ recently-acquired theatres in Weyburn, Saskatchewan —the Soo, Hi-Art and Twi-Lite Drive-in . . . The public is getting more liberal all the time and there may not be any censor boards soon, Lloyd T. Binford, 89, chairman of the Memphis Censor Board, predicted on announcing that he would retire next January after heading the board since its inception in 1928. The Memphis board has become internationally known because of the controversial nature of some of its rulings. Under 2 new scheme of the National Federation of Canadian University Students 40,000 of its members would be entitled to special discounts on theatre tickets, books and clothes by showing «2 NFCUS identity card... W. C. Powell has been named manager of National Theatre Services’ 598-seat Roxy in West Hill, Ontario, which will get a face-lifting job . . . Council of Port Credit, Ontario has passed a new by-law requiring theatres to take out licences at a fee of 20 cents per seat annually. Permit will have to be approved by the Chief of Police first. | RATS ee ee | Short Throws ACCUSED by Jacques Sauriol, a member of the Quebec film censorship board, of two morals charges, Police Inspector Armand Courval of Montreal was acquitted quickly at a preliminary hearing in Police Court. The two girls named testified that there was no truth in the charges. Sauriol, who edits a tabloid magazine and was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor, laid the charges as a citizen. The Montreal Star’ denounced the treatment suffered by Courval, demanding to know “how the courts came to be used for irresponsible purposes, how warrants came to be signed without supporting evidence.” WILLIE BIOFF, special representative of George Browne when the latter was head of the IA, was blown to bits when someone attached a bomb to his car engine outside his home in Phoenix, Arizona. Both Browne and Bioff were sent to jail for extortion from Hollywood studio heads under the threat of labor persecution. ORBIT Film Corporation Limited, which is sponsoring a round-the-world camera crew, has BE. Dowhan as its vice-president, R. Teslia as its secretary and W. Hladun as its treasurer. Board members are J. Kowalsky, E. Sowenko and W. Warwick. President is W. Hultay, Phm. B. Manager is Nestor D’Arr, production manager N. Rzepecki, art director M. Levytsky and business manager A. Serota. SUNDAY sports will be voted on by Vancouver citizens on December 14, SHRINK-PRGOF, wear resistant and substantially stronger are claims advanced for its new raw film stock by E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc., which the company hopes will be in mass production by the middle of 1956. While the film base, which is so tough that a 35 mm. strip may be used to tow an automobile, will have many advantages for motion pictures over the cellulose triacetate base now in use it will be only two-thirds as thick. It will bear the trade name of Cronar and will have one-third the tensile strength of steel. Breaking or fraying of the sprocket holes will be virtually impossible, it is claimed, and it will stand 15,000 flexings without breaking, as against 40 for pr aged present film AA's 'Crime In The Streets’ Don Siegel will direct AA’s Crime in the Streets, —_ November 16, 1955 At the Canadian Picture Pioneers Annual Dinner For easier identification the photographs will be treated as three downward panels and the persons named from left to right. Photos of the Rosenfeld and Bossin presentations are by The Telegram. The others are by the Royal Studios. LEFT PANEL: First photo — Morris Stein, vice-president of the Canadian Picture Pioneers; Herb and Bertha Allen. Second photo — Dr. A. W. Trueman, Government Film Commissioner, receives the Canadian Film Awards’ citation for The Film of the Year, the National Film Board's The Stratford Adventure, from Leonard W. Brockington, CMG, QC. Third photo — Press representatives are Stan Helleur, The Telegram; Mildred Stein; Ken Johnson, The Telegram; Jack Karr, The Star; Will McLaughlin of The Ottawa Journal, am honorary member of the Canadian Picture Pioneers and one of those honored at last year's dinner; Bob McStay, Variety; Alex Barris, Globe and Mail; and Mrs. Chet Friedman. Fourth Photo — Mrs. and Mr. Archie Laurie; Mrs. Ben Halter; Ben Halter, Canadian Film Weekly; Esther Silver, Canadian Film Weekly; Max Chic, Canadian Moving Picture Digest; and Mrs. Leonard Bishop, CENTRE PANEL: First photo — the general scene. Second photo — Louis Rosenfeld, The Pioneer of the Year, with Haskell M. Masters, who made the presentation of the onyx-and-gold symbol for the CPP; and N. A. Taylor, president of the CPP, who acted as toastmasfer of the dinner. Third photo — George Altman, co-chairman of the arrangements committee for the dinner; Dan Krendel, CPP director; Harold Pfaff, CPP director; Mrs. Pfaff; Mrs. Harry Lester and Harry Lester, co-chairman of the arrangements committee; Mrs. George Altman. Fourth photo — John J. Fitzgibbons, Sr., CBE, a previous Pioneer of the Year; Mayor Nathan Phillips and Mrs. Phillips. Fifth photo — Bob Hurwitz, secretarytreasurer of the Winnipeg branch of the CPP, and Mrs. Hurwitz; Lou Consky, Haliburton. RIGHT PANEL: First photo — Chet Friedman, in charge of publicity for the dinner, and George Oullahan, chairman of the arrangements committee. Second photo — Walter Herbert, chairman of the Canadian Film Awards, presenting a special citation to Hye Bossin, editor of the Canadian Film Weekly, for historical research and writings on the Canadian motion picture industry. Third picture — Mrs. Charles Dentelbeck and Charles Dentelbeck, CPP director; Miss Ena Wilson, Hamilton; Tom S. Daley, secretarytreasurer of the CPP; Mrs, Dave Ongley and Dave Ongley, QC, solicitor for the CPP; Mrs. Frank O'Byrne and Frank O'Byrne, CPP director. Fourth photo — TV, newsreel and radio men covering the dinner, among them Phil Pendry, Warner Pathe; Gerald Pratley, CBC; and Charlie Quick, Jr., Fox Movietone News. he a cea sii | Sa