Canadian Film Weekly (Aug 30, 1961)

August 30, 1961 35 COLOR PTC. (Continued from Page 1) factor of quality, there are three other very pertinent points,” he stated. George Mulholland, vicepresident of Film Laboratories of Canada Ltd., who insists that first-class 35 mm. color prints can be made in Canada, was apprised of Rosenfeld’s questions and gave answers to them. Rosenfeld said that the most recent article had made reference only to color prints but that there were many brands. “Has Mr. Mulholland’s_ outfit the wherewithal to print all of these different categories and if not, just which?” Mulholland answered that Technicolor and Eastmancolor are mainly the basic types and European prints are in the same class. ‘‘In almost every case processing laboratories use Eastmancolor and the resultant product is known by the name given it by the particular laboratories concerned.”” Film Lab can process them ail, with the exception of 70 mm., the printing of which is uneconomical in Canada, and an impost is not being asked for it. “I question whether Technicolor will permit any laboratories other than its own to print any of its pictures,’’ Rosenfeld wrote in his second question. Mulholland answered that Technicolor Corp. had been contacted and agreed to let Film Lab handle its work if there is a change in tariff. Since Film Lab’s equipment is the same type used in other countries it is easy to direct a negative or internegative ‘‘for printing and processing before or after they have been to other countries for the same purpose.” He asked: ‘‘Does Mr. Rosenfeld believe that only U.S. companies print and process for distribution throughout the world?” In his third question Rosenfeld said he understood that ‘‘an ‘answer print’ is required to be first runoff from the negative for testing purposes before the regular order of prints is made up.” Would the price of from eight to 12 prints by Film Lab at ‘below present landed cost’’ include an “answer print” provided such an answer print was not of good enough quality to use as a release print? Mulholland replied that Film Lab had a full-time chemist, a rigid control system and a checkup at a cost of approximately 200 feet of stock to know the exact results of each scene of a feature and make needed changes before printing and processing is started. Trial and error is eliminated by this method. “The fact that an answer print is not involved enables the company to cffer a price, as already stated, below the present landed costs. Distributors have never before been involved in answer prints. Why now?” CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Sn, off WE OOSOWW. |! DRUNK WANDERED into the subway. “I walked into some guy’s cellar,” he told a friend later, “and did he have a set of trains!” . . . There are times when local reviewing takes on a shrewish, harrying style—such as that applied to Tony Martin’s performance at the O’Keefe recently. Though «=--I didn’t catch him this time, I can’t conceive ‘hae of this thorough pro doing so poor a show as y oe f fh ~~ ~ to warrant the cruel comment he got from the ' writers. Lotta Cempsey, a first-class writer and | a first-class human being, stood up for Martin and his perforraance in The Star after those sneering stories about it ... Did Blaik Kirby, film critic of Tne Star, have to give away so much of the plot of The Deadly Companions? Theatre people think this sort of thing isn’t fair. It can detract from the enjoyment of the reader who sees the film—if he bothers going after he knows so much about it . . . Montreal school children get an hour of English daily. “You’re supposed to be able to speak both languages that way—but that hasn’t happened yet,” said our lecturer-driver on a Sightseeing tour. “You learn the words all right but the trouble is that you have to make your own conversation.” CNE GRANDSTAND show employs so many people that it’s just about a population explosion to rhythm. The kind of choreography and the revival of the pageant sort of takes an old-timer back to the Twenties. There’s no important star and I missed being challenged for my approval as a patron by a single personality. There are so many people and they’re so far away that they seem only half-human after a while — but, handled by Jack Arthur and his aides, they make a lively, colorful show unique as much for its composition as for its dimensions. Arthur employs troops of Mounties, military cadets, police, students and pros for the show, which is short a few laughs but that’s about all . . . Acclaim won by the National Youth Orchestra at its annual concert, held in Stratford this time, made a mighty happy man of Jack Bernstein, Allied Artists’ sales chief, who helped organize it and is the NYO vice-president .. . Kid talk at the CNE always takes the same form. One always asks another, “How much did YOU spend?” and “How much money have YOU got left?” Then, “You mean you spent ALL your money t90? Gosh, we haven’t got carfare home”. . . Gypsy Rose Lee, a grand gabber as well as a looker, will be a head table guest at the Sept. 28 Variety Club luncheon, so put it on your pad now. That meeting is shaping up like the best to date of an unforgettable series. EXPORT ASSN. (Continued from Page 1) son, vice-president of the MPEAA and president of the company. Labow thus becomes the second Canadian in an important international film post, the first being Wolfe Cohen, president of Warner Bros. Pictures International Corp. Labow comes to the new post with nearly 15 years’ film experience. Educated in Canadian schools in Winnipeg, he served in the Canadian Army from December 1939, to March, 1947, and rose from private to captain. In 1947 he entered the motion picture business in Winnipeg with the RKO sales department. He moved on to Toronto and rose from salesman to branch manager and by 1954 was general manager for RKO in Canada. In 1957 he was appointed managing director for Australasia, where he remained until the RKO overseas operation was abolished. During the past year and a half Labow has been in independent production and distribution in Great Britain and on the Continent. As general manager for the African export company he will be responsible for all of the new organization’s film activities in Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia. It is planned to establish offices in both Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana, Labow, as his first official act, announced the appointment of Joseph Payne Lorde as assistant to the manager. UA's 'Girl On The Boat' Norman Wisdom stars in the Knightsbridge production for UA, The Girl on the Boat, which is now before the cameras in London, Puge 3 Montreal will have another French-Canadian advertising and publicity outlet on Sept. 5, when a new evening daily paper, Le Nouveau Journal, is launched under the editorship of Jean-Louis Gagnon. Amusement rates are 35c per line except for circus and tent shows, which are $l. The Toronto office is under Basil D. Brown . . . Harry Rasky will set up the opening show for the new CTV TV network, which Ross McLean joined as executive producer recently. Ted Cott, until recently an NTA v-p in the USA, is programming consultant, though not on the staff. CIV programs selected from affiliates are Winnipeg’s 20 Questions, Rai Purdy’s West Coast variety show from Vancouver and Montreal’s Showdown, a musical game being coproduced by Screen Gems, a Columbia Pictures subsidiary. Pickering Township planning board does not approve of the location of Roy Jones’ drive-in project near Toronto, having changed its mind, and he has been asked to submit others. Barry Allen received a permit not far from the Jones location for what is to be an Odeon yearround operation . . . Glen Peacock closed his Isis Theatre, Calgary, because of illness and says he will reopen if well enough in the Fall . . . Adeline DeWalt Reynolds, 98, who made her acting debut at 70 and appeared in many films, died in Los Angeles recently . . . Former Canadian Billy Butlin, holiday resort king, gave the Variety Club of Great Britain a £15,000 gift, of which £10,000 is to go to a project in East London to be known as the Billy Butlin Boys’ Club. A former Chief Barker, he has personally donated over £50,000 to Variety work. Although the Philippines has 632 ~ motion picture theatres 93 feature films were produced in it during 1960, when a total of 422 feature films were released . . . Studio of Tele-Video Productions was opened recently by Lew Pollack Productions in the heart of the Broadway area. It has two large sound stages. An emphatic effort is being made to develop motion picture production in New York on a large scale, with Mayor Wagner promising support and the unions being helpful . . . Theatre owners will appeal the recent decision of the Arkansas Public Service Commission to permit Telemeter to operate in Little Rock . . . Jack Foxe has joined MGM’s Eastern ad and publicity department and will work out of NY to assist in the merchandising of the company’s pictures in the USA and Canada,