Canadian Film Weekly (Oct 9, 1957)

October 9, 1957 CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Page 7 ROYAL COVERAGE (Continued from Page 1) of Canada and head of the Commonwealth of Nations. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which this week held a network closed-circuit TV press conference about the Royal Visit, will use 25 TV cameras and seven mobile units with a producer in each, to cover the Queen in Ottawa. It will also have 27 radio pickups on the 13-mile route from the airport. The Ottawa visit will last from October 12-16, during which she will broadcast to the nation on Sunday, October 13 and open Parliament the next day. During the North American visit— October 12 to 21—Canadian and American radio and TV networks will exchange programs. According to an announcement by Director of Production Grant McLean, the NFB film will be photographed in wide-screen Eastman color and will go to theatres in Canada and overseas in late October. Because cameramen will be restricted in their movements inside the Parliament buildings during the opening ceremonies, six crews will be stationed at strategic points for interior shots. The NFB crews will provide the lighting which will be used by CBC-TV and others since color photography requires a higher degree of light than would be needed by TV cameras alone. The script for the film is being written by Ian MacNeill and John Howe will direct. Some of the scenes relating to historical and constitutional documents will be photographed before Her Majesty arrives in Canada. The estimated running time wasn’t given. The NFB is also preparing to make a feature film of Her Majesty’s tour of Canada and the United States. Its film of the last tour did big business in American and Canadian theatres. It was distributed in the USA by United Artists. Three Start At U-I Shooting has started on three films at Universal-International, bringing to seven the number now in work. The three are For Love or Money, Twilight for the Gods and Death Rides the Trail. Empire-Universal Films distributes U-I product in Canada. Warners Schedules "The Big Red 1' Warner Bros. has signed Samuel Fuller to produce, direct and write The Big Red 1, epic film story of the First U.S. Infantry Division’s exploits in World War II. Scheduled to be one of the biggest war films ever made, The Big Red 1 — nickname of the First Division — will be produced with the full. co-operation of the U.S. Army, Navy ‘and Air Force. The story involves seven countries, and seven campaigns. SMPTE LAB GROUP ELECTS PAYNE, BACH Ray Payne of the National Film Board, Montreal, and B. J. Bach, Jr., of Cinesound Limited, Toronto, were elected vice-chairman and secretary respectively at the recent meeting of the Canadian Motion Picture Laboratory Practices Standardization Subcommittee of the Canadian Section of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Chairman, elected at the first meeting in June, is Rodger J. Ross of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. At the recent meeting, held in Toronto, the chairman made an organization report, terms of reference were fixed and Sensitometer Calibration and Standardization were discussed. A progress report was prepared for presentation at the Laboratory Practices Committee meeting during the SMPTE convention in Philadelphia this week by the LPC chairman, Vaughan Shaner. Organization of the committee was completed with representation from laboratories, film manufacturers, the National Film Board, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the National Research Council, motion picture exhibitors, the Association of Motion Picture Producers and Laboratories of Canada, the Association of Canadian Advertisers and the Canadian Association of Advertising Agencies. QUESTION: WHITHER THE CBC? The 21st annual report of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation —which showed a deficit of $1,561,211 after $37,173,029 from the government and enough from other sources to raise its expenditure for the 1956-57 fiscal year to $49,289,000—caused pro and con press opinion. The Toronto Daily Star, in a long editorial, Is CBC Being Scuttled or Starved?, started with this: “The CBC is in treacherous financial shoals, as its annual report shows. Unless the government acts quickly to state its policy and keep the CBC financially afloat, it will be wrecked.” The editorial asks that the situation be cleared up quickly, closing with: “Canada will be poorer if the CBC is scuttled or sacrificed to private interests.” Arthur Blakely, Ottawa correspondent for The Montreal Gazette, discussed the report recently, commenting that the Fowler Commission’s $469,393,000 six-year recommendation is “for the purpose of maintaining the Corporation in the grand style to which the CBC is only gradually becoming accustomed. And what will happen if money isn’t made available on this scale?” he asks. ‘‘The CBC doesn’t like to talk about it. Or even, for that matter, to think about it.” REGULAR THEATRE SERVICE Regular theatre service is more than ever essential to protect your large investment in screen, sound and projection equipment. And DSEL is the logical choice for Canadian exhibitors—branches in every large centre with large stocks of replacements for regular and fast emergency service. Avail yourself of this quality service from Canada’s oldest and largest theatre service organization. For complete details talk it over with your local DSEL representative. DOMINION SOUND Equipments Limited <> OS-57-9 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. PINEWOOD ANNI (Continued from Page 1) preciation of that fact that Canadians had been given such an important place in the proceedings. The British motion picture industry leader was replying to the expression of goodwill in behalf of the 500 luncheon guests by HE Lt.-Col. The Honorable George Drew, PC, QC, former Premier of Ontario and Opposition Leader, who is now Canada’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. His congratulations were supported by Kenneth More, famed film actor. The final speech was made by Leonard W. Brockington, CMG, QC, president of The Rank Organization of Canada. John Davis, managing director of The Rank Organization, was in the chair. Drew, describing himself as an ardent film fan who had seen almost every Rank-made film, pointed out that had it not been for the coming of J. Arthur Rank to Canada we might have been almost wholly dependent on the United States for movie entertainment. “Without these British films our young children might hardly have known there was a British army or navy, to say nothing about our own ordeal,” he said. Movie star Dirk Bogarde closed the affair by presenting Lord Rank and Davis with a miniature silver camera each. Among the diplomats who shared the occasion as guests were the French Ambassador and the High Commissioners for Ceylon, Pakistan, India and New Zealand. The gentlemen were accompanied by their wives. The High Commissioner for India is HE Mrs. V. L. Pandit, sister of Prémier Nehru. Among the guests from the film Sie, vere Sir Tom O’Brien, trade union head; Sir Henry French of the British Film Producers Association; John Nicholls, chief British film censor; Alec Guinness, Michael Redgrave, A. E. Mathews and Flora Robson, stars of Pinewood-made pictures; and Sir Michael Balcon. Sir Ian Jacobs, general manager of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Sir R. Fraser, general manager of Independent Television Authority, were guests. So were the managing directors and executive editors of Britain’s leading newspapers, as well as long service personnel of Pinewood, artists, directors and producers of The Rank Organization. Pinewood, built on what was Heatherden Hall, the estate of Canadian financier Grant Morden, became a movie studio in 1936 with the production of The Man With Your Voice, starring Sally Eilers and Ricardo Cortez and directed by~Carol Reed. Many great films followed, among them Pygmalion, The Red Shoes and the Rank hits ‘of recent years. Davis said that the 20 films planned for the coming year would cost $15,000,000,