Canadian Film Weekly (May 15, 1957)

5) /0/]_ Z $ fies as [ = : rf + » VOICE of the CANADIAN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY Vol. 22, No. 20 Incorporating the CANADIAN MOVING PICTURE DIGEST (Founded 1915) May 15, 1957 NFB’S OWN WORK COST $3, CBC Okays Two TV Satellites Two Ontario communities, Elliott Lake and Kapuskasing, will soon have television through satellite stations, it was announced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Board of Governors, following its recent Ottawa meeting at which a number of other TV broad (Continued on Page 6) Hamateurs Given Aid By Ontario Non-profit theatricals, so undesirable in the professional theatre, are deliberately perpetuated in one circle and cherished in another. That circle which guarantees their profitless condition is a government one—the Community Programs branch of the Ontario (Continued on Page 7) "INCOME' WAS $5,579,507 IN ‘55-6; THEATRE DATES DOWN, TV UP Linking government allocations with revenue from sales, rentals, royalties and other miscellaneous sources to create a figure for what—according to government practice—it defines as income, Canada’s National Film Board had $5,579,507 to spend Ouimet Names Jennings B'casting Controller Controller of broadcasting for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is now Charles Jennings, 49, who was director of programs and assistant controller of broadcasting under E. L. Bushnell, assistant general manager of the CBC, it was announced in Ottawa by Alphonse Ouimet, general manager. Bushnell, who was also controller of broadcasting, will concentrate his attention on the more important post. Jennings remains director of programs and his assistant in that section of his responsibilities, Marcel Ouimet, 42, will also be assistant controller of broadcasting. It would appear that the realignment of responsibilities is in keeping with the opinion of the Royal Commission on Broadcasting, as offered in its report, that the general manager is carrying “a serious over-burden of work and responsibility’—partly, it thinks, because the CBC can’t “compete for efficient senior (Continued on Page 10) Year Book Information Shows Many Changes It’s news if it’s new. It doesn’t really have to be new. It has to be new to the reader. Our annual endeavors to bring information up to date for our next Year Book always reveals unpublicized changes, most of them remote from our point of publica tion. The persons who cause such changes and those whom they affect say little about them outside their offices; often they take place within government organizations and they see no point in an announcement. The persons with whom they deal learn them in the course of things, so why bother? Yet they are of interest to the trade generally. Last year there were two new (Continued on Page 6) BC Drive-in Opened Cache Creek Drive-in Theatres Limited has opened its 187-car Cache Creek Drive-in in Cache Creek, BC. "FRIENDLY PERSUASION’ __ EXTENDED TO JUNE 29 ] ‘SHOWMANSH IP CONTEST Fisher Rotary V-p Vice-president . of the Rotary Club of Toronto, largest unit of that organization in the British Commonwealth, for the next term is Frank H. Fisher, executive vicepresident in charge of theatre operations for The Odeon Theatres (Canada) Limited. Premiere In Ottawa North American premiere of JARO’s Ill Met by Moonlight has been set for May 15 at Ottawa’s Odeon Theatre. Produced by Powell and Pressburger, it stars Dirk Bogarde and Marius Goring. Allied Artists Pictures of Canada Limited has extended the closing date on its Friendly Persuasion Showmanship Contest to midnight, Saturday, June 29, in order to give os many Canadian managers as possible an opportunity to enter, The unprecedented number of holdovers on the during the 1955-56 fiscal year ending March 31, its annual report showed. It spent all but $15,186 of it, this being transferred to the credit of the Receiver General as revenue. The $5,579,507 compared with $4,648,634 the previous year. The NFB spent $3,480,935 of the total on administration, production and distribution connected with its main program, which is work outside that done for government departments, the last-named activity having cost $1,047,600. Revenue from sales, rentals, etc. came to (Continued on Page 2) 480,935 Canada Branches For Continental? Not much credence was given a trade press release from Continental Distributing Inc. of New York, in which it was stated that the company “will undertake its own sales and distribution in Canada with offices in key cities’ and that “Arrangements are _ being (Continued on Page 2) Tash Takes Over Successor to Jack Mackay as manager of the Toronto office of Associated Screen News is the veteran cameraman, Roy Tash, who has been with the company for many years. Mackay left to join the staff of Shelly Films, Toronto. QUINN WITH TRANS-WORLD LAB Laboratory superintendent for Trans-World Film Laboratories Limited, Montreal, is now Fin Quinn, who joined the Company May 1 soon after his resignation from a similar post at the National Film Board. Quinn replaced Ray Payne in charge of the 80-man NFB setup in 1955. Another NFB staffer who made the switch to TransWorld is Jean Latremouille, who joined it in 1949 and was developing room supervisor at the time of his resignation. Quinn joined the NFB in January, 1946, some months after he came out of the RCAF, as a developing machine operator and became Payne’s assistant in 1954. “The appointment of Mr. Quinn is Trans-World’s first step towards a complete reorganization program which is to take place gradually in order to become one of the biggest and best in Canada,” General Manager Andre Prefontaine said in making the announcement. Many people consider Quinn Canada’s No. 1 authority on film processing, he stated. SOCIETY APPRECIATES INDUSTRY AID Appreciation of the work of the Canadian motion picture industry in providing and distributing a trailer during the recent Easter Seal campaign was expressed by the Canadian Council for Crippled Children. The motion picture committee was headed by Frank Fisher, vice-president of Odeon, who is about to begin another term as a director of the Ontario Society for Crippled Children. Production and editing of the trailer was undertaken gratis by S. W. Caldwell Limited of Toronto and Associated Screen News Limited of Montreal. Shelly Films of Toronto assisted in the editing and transferred the sound on the dupe negative and arranged for the 35 mm. release printing without charge. Distribution to some 1,500 theatres was handled free by the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association through several of its members companies. An estimated 5,000,000 persons saw the appeal. film would otherwise haye shut them out. Campaign books, to be eligible for the three prizes of $150, $100 and $50, must be mailed previous to the closing date to Larry Stephens, AA Pictures of Canada, 286 Victoria Street, Toronto and must be marked ’/Friendly Persuasion Contest,” YW