Canadian Film Weekly (Jul 12, 1961)

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Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly
Date:
Jul 12, 1961
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly (Jul 12, 1961)
Leaf #:
0006
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",Canad
Collection:
Global Cinema, Canada, and Hollywood Studio System
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:
August 01, 2024
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July 12, 1961 DUTY ASKED (Continued from Page 1) ties for 35 mm. color printing, Canadian Film Industries in Toronto and Associated Screen Industries Ltd., Montreal. The Toronto plant, of which Mulholland is manager, has had 35 mm. printing facilities for some years but did not begin using them until about three months ago. Associated Screen Industries, which hasn’t been using its 35 mm. color facilities of late, is a subsidiary of Du-Art Film Laboratories, Inc., New York, which gets a share of feature printing. PatheDeLuxe of Canada Ltd., which occupies the former premises and facilities of Shelly Films near Toronto, is jointly owned by Pathe Laboratories, Inc., and DeLuxe Laboratories Inc., the two top USA labs. DeLuxe is a subsidiary of 20th Century-Fox. Since the USA parent companies of Canadian labs prepare the prints for Canada, their lack of interest in printing 35 mm. color features on this side of the border is understandable. Particularly if, as one leading labber asserts, a profit isn’t possible in that area. This man says that even if a single lab already equipped at a cost of over $100,000 had all the 35 mm. color printing to itself a profit isn’t possible. He thought that not even the National Film Board needs, which are taken care of in the UK and the USA, would help. It’s estimated that almost 90 per cent of theatrical features are now in color, a reverse of the figures for less than 10 years ago. The 14 or 16 prints per picture used in Canada are part of the 200 to 300 made for use in the domestic market, which in the film industry means the USA and Canada combined. The union holds that though the cost of prints for Canada is held down because they are part of the domestic total, they can be printed here at no more expense to the producer or distributor. 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