Canadian Film Weekly (Apr 24, 1957)

Page scan 0000 from Canadian Film Weekly

Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly
Date:
Apr 24, 1957
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly (Apr 24, 1957)
Leaf #:
0000
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Global Cinema, and Canada
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
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.

a a ee Vol, 22, No. 16 RRA Na TAG iB ESR i SGD EEG ORCAS ART SE IRE LEE SS ARES ES BS ES MGM UPS 1957-5 Cinemas Become Mission Houses Dark cinemas in Windsor, Hamilton and other Ontario communities are being reopened for free movies, advertised as such in local papers, and are apparently making money for their sponsors, as well as bringing the owner or lessee money pending disposition of the structure. (Continued on Page 8) Film Material In Weekend Papers Motion picture publicity in Toronto, not always satisfactory on the press side in the past, appears headed for a better break. The arrival of the Weekend Telegram, on sale Sundays, stirred the Star into an expanded Saturday edition. On May 4 the Weekend Globe and (Continued on Page 8) 8 FEATURES TO 36 CONDITIONS DEMAND HARDER SELLING, SAYS REAGAN During the 12 months beginning September 1 MGM will release 36 features, six more than during the previous fiscal period, Charles M. Reagan, vice-president and general sales manager, told representatives, among them Hilly Cass, general sales man Harry Cohen Montreal AA Branch Manager Harry Cohen, formerly Montreal branch manager for RKO Distributing Corporation of Canada, which recently closed its offices and is now distributing through Empire-Universal Films, has joined Allied Artists Pictures of Canada in the Quebec metropolis. The popular Cohen fills the post of branch manager, vacant since the recent retirement of Sam Jacobs, it was announced in Toronto by Douglas V. Rosen, general manager for AA of Canada. Cohen was with RKO for 17 years, first as a salesman working out of the Winnipeg office, then as branch manager in Saint John and for several years until the recent closing of the exchanges Montreal branch manager. Cohen is the second RKO branch manager to join another company. Recently Myer Nackimson was named Empire-Universal Winnipeg head. Bolstad Wins Toronto Tent’s Heart Award Winner of the annual Heart Award of the Variety Club of Toronto is R. W. Bolstad, a past chief Barker, who was presented with the onyx-and-gold plaque which symbolizes the honor, by James R. Nairn, last year’s winner, at a dinner meet ing in the Prince George Hotel. “He has willingly taken on every job he was ever asked to do — and even created many other assignments for himself,” said Nairn. ‘‘He’s sold tickets for our shows, space in our programs, found jobs for Variety Village graduates and given freely of his expert advice—and he’s still giving.” In thanking his fellow-barkers Bolstad urged that younger mem(Continued on Page 4) Sabre Films Changes Title Title of Sabre Films’ The Haunted, starring Dana Andrews and Peggy Cummins, has been changed to Night of the Demon. Rata ay Dre eh eG MANITOBA DROPS TAX ON THEATRE TIX 50¢ & U ener ta a enh sh Ces aries RET a ETS LPRURTORTERCseoE TS RSCO AT AUTRES pase So Sa PENT Cet atest oe Percy Taylor Passes Percy Taylor, Rock Island, Quebec exhibitor, died recently at the age of 67. His son, Hatton, is formerly of the RKO organization in Canada and the USA. Also surviving are two daughters — Mrs. Mickey Miles and Mrs. Harry (Red) Foster of Toronto. Services were at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Toronto. Ray Milland In ‘High Flight’ Ray Milland will star in Warwick Productions’ High Flight, which will be filmed at the Elstree Studios in England and released by Columbia. Sagreates tremens ome garter io ncdnrneh a A fe Only tax concession granted by the Manitoba Government in the budget brought down recently by Provincial Treasurer Charles Greenlay was to the Province’s theatres, which will not have to pay amusement tax on admissions of 50 cents ager for Canada, at the recent sales meeting in Chicago. With Reagan to spark the meeting were Joseph R. Vogel, president of Loew’s Inc., MGM’s parent company, and Howard Dietz, v-p and ad and promotion chief. Cass returned to Toronto enthusiastic about the company’s plans for the changing future, as revealed by Vogel and Reagan. “Every man in the company has a right to expect a square deal and a decent job, but conditions demand harder work and more thor ough selling than before,” Vogel (Continued on Page 3) Tub SRS ate Serenity 2 ag 7 Ree a eet TR RH Toronto, April 24, 1957 Denies That CCP Was Discontinued “The Canadian Cooperation Project has not been supplanted or discontinued nor have I received any intimation that it will be,” stated Don Henshaw, its Canadian representative for the Motion Picture Association of America, from his office at the MacLaren Adver(Continued on Page 3) Drive-in Fees Cut The Alberta Government has cut licence fees for drive-ins by 50 per cent. New scale is $125 annually and $25 per month for ozoners with a capacity of 500 or more cars, with the rate declining as the capacity becomes smaller. TRUEMAN TO CC; NEW NFB HEAD SOON A new chairman of the National Film Board and Government Film Commissioner is indicated by confirmation of unofficial reports that Dr. A. W. Trueman will become director of the Canada Council, which will spend $100,000,000 in public funds to assist in the elevation and broadening of culture in this country. Another Canada Council appointment of interest is that of L. W. Brockington, CMG, QC, president of The Rank Organization in Canada, whose term as a councillor will be two years. Chairman of the Canada Council, which has 19 councillors appointed for terms from two to six years, is Brooke Claxton of Ottawa, Canadian vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and former Minister of Defence. Vice-chairman is Monsignor GeorgesHenri Levesque, rector of Montmorency College, Quebec City. Assisting Trueman as chief administrative officer is Eugene Bussiere, now director of the citizenship branch of the Citizenship and Immigration Department. HONOR BROWN, CRINGAN, PAYNTER Guests of honor at a farewell stag dinner given by Alberta industry people were Cy Brown, Bob Cringan and Harry Paynter, while Joe Garfin, until recently in Vancouver, was welcomed back to Calgary as successor to the first-named, formerly Empire-Universal branch manager. Brown and Cringan, formerly 20th-Fox manager, left their companies to establish their own business, CBM Distributors, which is outside the industry. Arthur Hersh of Warners was_ toastmaster. Frank Kettner of Prairie Allied presented a scroll to Cringan; Doug Miller, Taber exhibitor and v-p of the Alberta Theatres Association, did the honors for Brown; and Buster Radis of UA, Film Board of Trade president, made the presentation to Paynter. Over a hundred were present at the dinner, which took place in the Little Dogie Room of the Stampeder Hotel. and under, effective May 1. This is the third straight year that the plight of theatres, hard hit by television, has been given consideration. Two years ago tickets up to 25 cents were exempted and last year this was raised to 30 cents. SUS EU SS OT RRR NL: STE a re a