Canadian Film Weekly (Apr 4, 1956)

April 4, 1956 NEW COMPANIES (Continued from Page 1) preferred and 2,000 common shares, all at a par value of $5 each, with C. E. Schisberg its solicitor. Telecable Antenna Limited was created by P. F. Vineberg and M. L. Rothman of Westmount, PQ, with Yvonne Belanger of Montreal the solicitor. Transvision (Canada) Limited, at 50,000 shares without nominal par value, was established by a Toronto group. Ethnographic Films Committee, Inc. was registered by Marcel Rioux and June Helm MacNeish, Ottawa anthropologists, and Roger Blais, Hull, PQ, film producer. Changes in companies made through the Department of the Undersecretary of State: Marcus Loew’s Theatres Limited has reduced the capital stock of the company to 7,500 common shares without nominal or par value. Graphics Associates Film Productions Limited, a private company, is (1) increasing the capital stock of the company to 21,000 preferred shares of the par value of $10 each and 40,000 common shares without nominal par value, (2) changing the corporate name to Graphic Films Limited, and (3) amending restrictions on the right to transfer shares of the capital stock of the company. Odeon Holdings (Canada) Limited, a private company, is altering the capital stock of the company so that it will consist of 400 Class A shares and 9,600 Class B shares, all without nominal par value. Following is information about companies registered in Ontario: Beenabee Theatres’ Limited was established by Harl Brown and Ian Holt Smith, barristers, and Albert Perly, manager, all of Toronto, as a private com _pany “To contract for, erect and construct, to acquire by purchase, lease, licence or otherwise, and to hold, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of and operate motion picture theatres or other theatres and places of amusement, entertainment or instruction of every kind and description.”’ Capitalized at 18,000 nonvoting preference shares with a par value of $10 each and 20,000 common shares without par value. Its head office is in Toronto. Benjamin Film Laboratories Limited was incorporated by Ernest Patrick Finley, publishers’ representative, and Diana Catherine Stewart, housewife, both from Toronto. It is a private company ‘‘to carry on the business of photographic developers’ and is capitalized at 1,250 non-cumulative redeemable preference shares with a par value CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Short “/hrows PRODUCER of a number of films for industrial and charitable organizations, Arthur Hundert, 41, died recently in Vancouver General Hospital after a brief illness. He was head of the Art Hundert Motion Picture Foundation and at the time of his death was shooting a film for the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society. THEATRE Holding Corporation has started work on the conversion of its old Classic Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, which has been closed for the last six years. The rebuilding program, which will cost about $75,000, will include dividing the structure into offices and adding a floor. RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc., the new company formed by General Teleradio when it bought out RKO Radio Pictures, has acquired an interest in Unique Records and will enter the recording and music publishing field. LES PRESTON, manager of the Capitol, St. Thomas, Ontario, left Famous Players after 17 years to accept the local agency of the Dominion Life Assurance Company. Les (Leslie H.) is popular in the industry, as well as with the public. OUT-OF-TOWN guests at the recent 11th annual dance of the Canadian Picture Pioneers, Manitoba-Saskatchewan division, were Jack Fitzgibbons, Jr., head of Theatre Confections Limited, and Bob Eves, Western division manager of Famous Players. The ball, held in the Club Morocco in Winnipeg, was a complete sellout and another one is being planned for the Fall. STUDENT privilege cards were favored by Edmonton schools, the Public School Board was told by Superintendent W. P. Wagner. The cards bear photographs of the student and school photography clubs may supply them. In a vote 21 junior high schools favored the cards, while one composite high school and five junior high schools opposed them. DISAPPOINTED in the collapse of the plans to build a film museum in Hollywood, Mary Pickford has decided to leave the prints of her films and mementos to existing museums. She blamed the heads of the studios, who are “negligent and shortsighted.” DEPTH BOMB dropped by an RCN ship in Lake Ontario during exercises in connection with an anniversary and the preview of JARO’s Above Us the Waves is causing a dispute. The Transport Department put a warning buoy over the spot and just left it there. The RCN said that it had placed the time-limit of danger at six months. A Toronto Star reporter, Jack Gale, remembered the dud, which was dropped in the early summer, and started the enquiry. OPENING of the regular showing of Cinerama Holiday in the Imperial in Montreal, the only theatre so far equipped for Cinerama in Canada, will follow a press and trade preview on April 4 and a_ gala _ public premiere on April 5. Run of This Is Cinerama, the first film in the process, will close the day before the press preview after a 66-week run, during which it will have been seen by about 425,000 Canadians and will have grossed an estimated $700,000. AUTHENTIC ‘Movies Spread The Travel Bug,” says a heading in a Toronto Telegram story by Douglas L. Oliver, who says: “Sometimes (we _ think) the travel services should actually subsidize the motion picture industry. No off-the-beaten track promotion medium is more likely, of $100 each and 25,000 common shares without par value. Its head office is in Toronto. Windsor Film Society was incorporated by a Windsor group as a corporation without share capital “To promote the study of cinematographic art by showing moving picture films to the members.” Its thead office is in Windsor. Warwick Webster Limited was created by Richard James Roberts, barrister, of Toronto, ‘To purchase, own, create, produce and present and to license others to produce and present literary and artistic works of any kind, and to acquire, rent, create, hold, sell, lease, assign, transfer, market or dispose of copyrighted and uncopyrighted literary and artistic works of any kind and any. and all rights and interests therein or in regard thereto.” Authorized capitalization is 36,000 preference shares with a par value of $1 each and 4,000 common shares without par value. Head office is in Toronto. Earlier issues this year have carried information on _ other actions along the lines of the above. Companies mentioned were Mannitona Pictures Corportion Limited, Gananoque, Ontario; G.S.A. Films Limited, London; Ministar Film Productions, Toronto; Canada Israel Film Distribution Company Limited, Toronto, and Ken Theatres (Hamilton) Limited. Page 7 if indirectly, to add fat bucks to these agents’ pocketbooks than pictures of the type of To Catch A Thief. Or Three Coins in a Fountain, Or, say, Summertime.” ABOUT 380 employees of the National Film Board will move from Ottawa to Montreal on June 1, while between 30 and 40 resigned, refusing to switch cities. About 40 NFB personnel will remain in Ottawa in a new downtown building. The NFB is paying the cost of shipping household goods and living expenses up to 21 days, while a single employee gets ten days. Train fare or car expenses are also allowed. “FIRST Canadian Goodwill Expedition Around-the-World,” a two-way cultural exchange between Canada and 75 countries of the free world, got under way recently. Three persons, who are receiving only their expenses, are in the crew that is making the 2% year trip, which has been in the planning stage for three years. They are carrying a number of NFB films to show something of Canada to people of other lands and will do some shooting to show Canadians. They are travelling in a station wagon and will use local help when necessary. William Hultay, head of Orbit Films and the Ukrainian National Federation, raised the $150,000 necessary for the mission from Toronto business men, his theatre patrons come back again he buys his TRAILERS from ASN" *ASSOCIATED SCREEN NEWS 2000 Northcliffe Ave., Montreal