Canadian Film Weekly (Jun 19, 1957)

Page scan 0009 from Canadian Film Weekly

Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly
Date:
Jun 19, 1957
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly (Jun 19, 1957)
Leaf #:
0009
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
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.

These photos, taken by Alex Gray for the Variety Club of Toronto, show scenes at the annual graduations of the pupils of Variety Village, the vocational guidance school and residence in Scarborough, near Toronto, which is supported by show and sports folk. The top photo on the left shows the headmaster and principal, Arthur Robertson, after he completed the introduction of the members of his staff, who are shown lined up below him. The right-hand photo shows members of the student First ‘Sally’ Award To Cecil B. DeMille Cecil B. DeMille was presented with the Salvation Army’s first “Sally” award by the USA national commander, Donald McMillan of New York, before 1,000 persons in the Statler Hotel, Los Angeles, last week. It will go annually to the individual whose accomplishments for the social and spiritual bettermen of Mankind is in harmony with Salvation Army ideals and practices. The award is symbolized by a statuette eight inches in height which shows a Salvation Army girl guiding the steps of a small boy. WB's "Marjorie Morningstar’ Irving Rapper will direct WB’s Marjorie Morningstar. Carlton Joins NAC Carlton Automatic Vendors Limited, Toronto, of which Gurston Rosenfeld is president, has joined the Jobber-Distributor Segment of the National Association of Concessionaires. The NAC head office is in Chicago and the Canadian Region office is in Toronto. THEATRE BUSINESS FULLY EQUIPPED THEATRE FOR LEASE to experienced persons capable of handling entire operation of modern picture theatre ready to open in progressive Western Ontario town of 1,700, also servying farming community of 5,000 persons. Low rental and attractive setup for enterprising couple, Limited capital required. Please write enclosing particulars and phone number to — ADVERTISER Box 366, Chesley, Ontario | —_—eee_0qQ_—eeeeeee Columbia Buys New Novel Columbia has acquired Whit Mas terson’s The Shadow in the Wild. THE PRIDE OF TENT 28, TORONTO — VARIETY VILLAGE — BRINGS ITS TOTAL OF GRADUATES TO 115 body and behind them guests at the ceremonies, held in the Common Hall. The lower-left photo shows part of the scene on the quadrangle, where a buffet dinner was served before the ceremonies. Two of the Variety Club’s three chaplains are in the centre photo: Reverend Ray McCleary and Father George Cherrier, Douglas Draper, the valedictorian, speaks as three of the platform personages listen intently. They are Richard Sutton, MPP; Chief Barker N. A. Taylor of the Variety Club, who was the chairman; and A, M, Campbell, the Reeve of Scarborough. AA's ‘Portland Expose’ Edward Binns stars in Allied Artists’ Portland Expose. THEATRE EQUIPMENT INCLUDING DRIVE-INS Dominion Sound distributes top quality Theatre equipment—designed to give you and your patrons the most satisfaction. DSEL Theatre specialists will assess, specify and install this equipment in time for brisk Summer business—prepare for BIG box office NOW! PROJECTION AND SOUND EQUIPMENT ARC LAMPS @ ANAMORPHIC LENSES MOTOR GENERATORS AND RECTIFIERS SEATING @ SCREENS ® IN-CAR SPEAKERS DRIVE-IN SCREEN PAINT @ PROJECTION LENSES DOMINION SOUND Equipments Limited <> DS-57-8 HEAD OFFICE: 4040 St. Catherine Street West, Montreal BRANCHES AT: St. John’s, Nfld., Halifax, Saint John, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, London, North Bay, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, UK Author Here For "Dr. At Large’ Preem Visitor to Toronto for the North American premiere of The Rank Organization’s Doctor At Large last week was Dr. Richard Gordon, on whose original stories the film and its two predecessors in the series have been based. Doctor At Large, which follows the tremendously successful Doctor in the House and Doctor At Sea, opened at the Odeon-Hyland and five Odeon nabe houses. Dr. Gordon, accompanied by his wife, was interviewed on TV and radio and by newspapermen during his short stay in the Queen City. Added To Fox' "Young Lions' Barbara Rush, Tony Randall and May Britt have been added to the cast of Al Lichtman’s first Independent production for 20th-Fox, The Young Lions. Mike Zahorchak Sued By Gypsy Rose Lee? Gypsy Rose Lee and four members of her troupe, along with Paul Kligman and other Canadian performers, filed a writ asking $2,000 in Osgoode Hall, Toronto against M. W. Zahorchak of Niagara Falls, Ontario, who last year presented live entertainment in the Hollywood Theatre there in association with Eric Greenwood. Another claim asks $5,000 from Greenwood and the London and Lancashire Guarantee and Accident Company of Canada, considered by the issuers of the writ to be the bondholder.