Canadian Film Weekly (Jul 3, 1957)

Page scan 0004 from Canadian Film Weekly

Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly
Date:
Jul 3, 1957
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly (Jul 3, 1957)
Leaf #:
0004
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
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July 3, 1957 CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Page 5 Review THE LITTLE HUT (From The Film Daily, NY) with Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger and David Niven. MGM (Eastman Color) 78 Mins. MERRY ROMANTIC TRIANGLE ON SMALL PACIFIC ISLAND. GOOD BOXxOFFICE CAST. A shipwrecked triangle on a romantic Pacific isle is accorded a farcical treatment in The Little Hut. The picture enjoys an outstanding production treatment plus a persuasive boxoffice cast that includes Ava Gardner, Steward Granger and David Niven. The humor flows continuously, generally on a sophisticated level, though the story line runs thin in spots. F. Hugh Herbert wrote the screenplay, and also produced along with Mark Robson. He has sprinkled the story with the type of situations and dialogue that will stir continuous laughs from the patron. Based on the picture’s intrinsic boxoffice values, including the fine location shots and Eastman Color, it should do well at the turnstiles. Portrayals are deftly drawn in the story. Granger is a distinguished British gentleman, frequently off on official government duty, much to the neglect and chagrin of his beautiful wife, Miss Gardner. Meantime, Niven, friend of the family, has fallen in love with Miss Gardner, but it’s a one way love. Out on a yacht trip, everything is cozy until a storm blows up, wrecks the ship, and tosses the three on a little island. The experience to Granger is a challenge and he responds with exhilaration and ingenuity. To Niven, however, the island is a boring drudge, especially since he has to live alone in a little hut. Comic complications arise when he decides a change should be made and _ informs Granger of his love for Miss Gardner. The development of this triangle is done with skilled satire. Mark Robson’s direction is commendable, as is the impressive photography of F. A. Young and the music score by Robert Farnon. The picture is enjoyable fare, superior to the general run. CAST: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, David Niven, Walter Chiari, Finlay Currie, Jean Cadell. CREDITS: Produced by F. Hugh Herbert and Mark Robson; Directed by Robson; Screenplay, by Herbert; Based on the play by Andre Roussin; Music score by Robert Farnon; Photographed by F. A. Young. DIRECTION: Very Good. PHOTOGRAPHY: Very Good. "The Light In The Forest’ Fess Parker has been added to the starring cast of Walt Disney’s The Light in the Forest. Added To Fox' ‘April Love’ Arthur O’Connell has been signed for an important role in 20th-Fox’ April Love, the second starring vehicle at the studio for the popular singer, Pat Boone. Short “/hrowes LETTERS Patent of Incorporation dated May 16, 1957, have been issued by R. J. Cudney, Ontario Deputy Provincial Secretary, under The Corporations Act, 1953 to R. A. Cranston, J. L. C. Jenner and I. A. 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To this end Sir William Mowat has drafted an amendment to the Criminal Code making it a punishable offence for anyone to exhibit by means of the vitascope, kinetoscope or kinematograph or kindred machine any picture of a prize fight.” ANNUAL elections of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences resulted in only one new officer being named — Valentine Davies succeeding Perry Lieber as assistant secretary. ELECTIONS of the Screen Producers Guild, which has 187 members and represents 98 per cent of the Hollywood film producers, resulted in Samuel G. Engel being returned as president for a third term, Walter Mirisch being named first v-p, Lawrence Weingarten second v-p, Dick Powell third v-p, Frank McCarthy treasurer, Hall Bartlett assistant treasurer and Wm. Self second assistant treasurer. New executive board members are Samuel J. Briskin, Louis F. Edelman, Charles Schnee, Carey Wilson, Mirisch, Powell and Self. DSEL headquarters for 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 DOMINMON 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, News Clips Arrivals of immigrants to Canada from January 1, 1946 to May 31, 1957 will total about 1,532,000. One in every 15 persons today is a post-war immigrant. The total is expected to reach between 1,547,176 and 1,557,176 by July 1, the halfyear mark, and the total immigration in 1957 may exceed 200,000 . . The Rank Organization has been presenting an_ exhibition, From Script to Screen, in department stores and other places. Associated British also has an exhibition, Stars in Stills, made up of photos taken over 30 years, which just opened in the Kodak Rooms, London. John Davis, managing director of The Rank Organization, was given an Honorary Fellowship of the British Kinematograph Society for ‘inspired leadership” Bill Payne, manager of the 900-seat Marks, Oshawa, ordered the theatre closed when he discovered a large crack in the ceiling after some plaster came down. Two days later the roof crashed. Walter Cockerill, for 41 years in the theatre, was on hand when the roof came down at 10.30 a.m. but was at a safe distance . . . Screen Gems has acquired TV rights to 550 pre1948 Universal films. Bruce Emonson, engineer, has joined TelePrompter of Canada, a Caldwell affiliate . . . United Artists has rejoined the Motion Picture Association of America . . . Princess Margaret will open the new National Film Theatre of the British Film Institute on October 15 in London. The theatre will have cost £77,000 . . . Only a dozen of 2,296 USA-made films reviewed in the last six years by the Catholic Legion of Decency were condemned, wrote John E. Fitzgerald in Our Sunday Visitor, a Catholic magazine. Ordet, Danish film directed by Carl Dreyer, will replace the Italian program scheduled for July 19 by the Stratford Film Festival . . . The Pennsylvania legislature adjourned without taking action on a censorship bill, which is therefore dead. Exhibitors led the opposition to it . . . Correction: Charles Duhig, not Charles Doerr, replaced the late George Robinson in the Imperial projection room. Doerr is still at Paramount Film Service . . . 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