Canadian Film Weekly (Jan 9, 1957)

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Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly
Date:
Jan 9, 1957
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly (Jan 9, 1957)
Leaf #:
0002
Language:
English
Collection:
Canada, Hollywood Studio System, and Global Cinema
Format:
periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library, Greig Dymond in memory of David Dymond, 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:
May 23, 2024
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January 9, 1957 CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Page 3 IMMIGRATION (Continued from Page 1) Ten thousand of these will have arrived by January 1, the Honorable John Pickersgill, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, said after a recent visit to Britain and Europe. These will have come from Austrian refugee camps. From camps in the Netherlands will come 3,000 more after March 1 and 3,000 visas, valid after April 1, are being offered those in France. The 45,000 estimated from the UK in 1956 compares with 30,000 in 1955. Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are the choices of most UK immigrants but those from Europe spread out over Canada. There are about 1,000 applications per week at immigration offices in Glasgow and leaves had to be cancelled in the holiday season at Canada House there, so busy is the staff. Both diminishing interest in emigration and Canada’s intention of reducing the number it would accept seem to have been forgotten, the first affected by unhappy events in Europe and the Middle East and the second dropped because of expansion. The immigrants, of which a great number speak English, are potential movie patrons. Not only do they help business soon after arrival but they will build attendance as the Canadian motion picture industry recaptures its place in popular entertainment. FILM ASSEMBLY (Continued from Page 1) won honors and commendations and many will again be entered for Golden and _ Silver Reel Awards. Details and entry blanks may be obtained from the Film Council of America, 614 Davis Street, Evanston, Illinois. Deadline for entry of films plus print is January 22, 1957. The categories open are: 1. Citizenship and Government, 2. Education, 3. Junior and Senior Highschool Classroom Films (Natural Science, Science, Social Science, Technology), 4. Junior and Senior Highschool Classroom Films (Arts, Crafts, Literature, Biography, History, Language Skills), 5. Preschool through Intermediate Classroom Films, 6. Safety, 7. Recreation, 8. Business, 9. Economics, 10. Industrial Processes, ll. Industrial Training, 12. Institutional Promotion, 13. Natural Resources, 14. Sales and Promotion, 15. Avant Garde and Experimental Films, 16. Feature Length Fictional Films (50 minutes or longer), 17. Human Relations, 18. International Understanding, 19. Literary, Musical and Theatrical Arts, 20. Religion and Ethics, 21. Visual Arts, 22. Health and Hygiene (lay audiences) and 23. Medical Sciences (for professionals only). The 1957 Crew of the Variety Club of Toronto & Left to right, seated: Al Troyer, Dough Guy; J. J. Fitzgibbons, Sr., Big Boss; N. A. Taylor, Chief Barker; Dan Krendel, First Assistant Chief Barker; and J. J. Fitzgibbons, Jr., Second Assistant Chief Barker. Standing: Herb Allen, Joe Bermack, Ralph Dale and Clare Appel, Canvasmen; Chet Friedman, Property Master; and George Altman, Canvasman. News Clips A 92-year-old theatre manager, Captain Samuel D. Herman, retired from the Capitol, Lunenberg, NS . . . Community-owned Salmar Theatre in Salmon Arms, BC, showed a $5,635 net profit for its fiscal year . . . Charles Cohen quit as Eastern ad-pub chief for Allied Artists to become assistant to Meyer M. Hutner, national publicity chief for Warners, with offices in New York ... The Very Reverend James A. Pike, Dean of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, supported anyone’s right to see Warners’ controversial film, Baby Doll, in a sermon in NY. A drive-in theatre and recreation centre is planned for Oklahoma City, which will be financed through the sale of $1 shares. To be called Cinema-Surf, it will have a twin-screen 938-car drive-in, a luxurious restaurant with rooftop dining in the summer, a Surf Club with separate swimming pools for children and adults, an amusement park with a free area for children, and an ice skating rink in the wintertime . . . Consul General of Canada in New York held a reception before the showing of Oedipus Rex at the 55th Street Playhouse. Irving Sochin, who has been with U-I, 20th-Fox and UA, will help Kenneth Hargreaves, president of the recently-formed Rank Film Distributors of America, set up a USA sales organization . . . George Milton of the Prince George Hotel, formerly steward of the Variety Club, died suddenly in Toronto last week. He had made many friends in the entertainment world. Odeon-Tivoli, Saskatoon, got together with a nearby restaurant and provided a dinner and show for 200 pensioners at Christmas... Glen Peacock of the Isis, Calgary, is providing a once-a-month Safety Patrol Show free for youngsters and just before the holiday he provided a ventriloquist . . . Montreal Council of Women, after hearing Brigadier Eric Wilson, Montreal Star advertising director, will send a letter to the leading USA women’s organization asking them to use their influence to diminish lurid movie advance copy. WE POSSESS 4824 Cote des Neiges Rd. Montreal 26, Que. RE. 3-718) The equipment that can remove SCRATCHES from films, either negative or positive stock — 16 and 35 mm. IN CANADIAN *A RECOGNIZED AUTHORITY FILM PROCESSING STAR WEEKLY (Continued from Page 1) offers a first prize of $1,000 and 200 double passes good all year to any theatre in Canada to the contestants whose selections come closest to the national ones. While The Star Weekly circulation is just under a million, its readership is much greater, since it is a family-type periodical with something of interest for every member of the home. Consequently, the value of this poll to theatres, public relations-wise, is enormous and cannot be reckoned in dollars and cents. However, the actual cost to The Star Weekly will be close to $20,000 — made up of the space assigned to the contest in the four issues of the paper, ads in other newspapers across Canada, radio spots, cost of tabulating the ballots and the printing and mailing of broadsides, letters and 28’’x42”” posters to 1,772 Canadian theatres. In the letter to the theatres The Star Weekly points out that the poll is sponsored jointly by the newspaper and the motion picture industry and asks the theatres to display the poster in the lobby for the four weeks of the competition. It also emphasizes that the prizes will be assigned to provinces according to population in an effort to make the results truly national. Leadoff in the contest was three pages of reviews of outstanding films of 1956 in the important Magazine Section of The Star Weekly by Jack Karr, the Toronto Daily Star’s movie critic and one of the best-known columnists in Canada. Heavy editorial support in both papers followed. Rita Hayworth Film Rita Hayworth has started preproduction work on Pal Joey, in which she will star with Kim Novak and Frank Sinatra for Columbia Pictures. Added To Fox’ ‘Rock Hunter’ Lili Gentle has been added to the cast of 20th-Fox’ Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? APA Sets Deal For "Remember, My Love' A. W. Schwalberg, president of Artists-Producers Associates, has completed negotiations for the United States and Canadian distribution rights to Remember, My Love. Based upon Johann Strauss’ immensely popular light comic opera, Die Fledermaus, Remember, My Love has been brought up-to-date and is now set in post World War II Vienna. Written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, it stars Michael Redgrave, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Ludmilla Tcherina, Anton Walbrook, Dennis Price, Anneliese Rothenberger and Oska Sima.