Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry (1966)

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Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry
Date:
1966
Volume:
Canadian Film and TV Bi-Weekly 1966-67 Year Book [of the] Canadian Entertainment Industry
Leaf #:
000118
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Yearbook",Canad
Collection:
Canada, Hollywood Studio System, Global Cinema, and Year Book
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library, Canadian Media Magazines Project, Paul Moore and Jessica Whitehead
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:

Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry

Editor: Hye Bossin (1951-64)

Renamed Canadian Film & TV Bi-Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Entertainment Industry (1965-70, editor: Stan Helleur)

Hye Bossin was central in the 1950s 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 (1951-1970), an annual directory appendix to Bossin’s editorship at Canadian Film Weekly (1942-1970), owned by Nat Taylor’s Film Publications of Canada, Ltd. Early volumes included several significant historical essays under his byline, remarkably comprehensive and still cited today. Later volumes provided an annual spotlight of the Canadian Picture Pioneers of the Year. In the late 1960s, after Bossin’s death, the magazine was renamed Canadian Film & TV Bi-Weekly, scaling back the pace of publishing but added a purview for television and broadcasting. The annual was renamed similarly, its subtitle amended to “Year Book of the Canadian Entertainment Industry.” When the Film Weekly was relaunched as Canadian Film Digest (1971-76), the publication continued to include an annual, Canadian Film Digest Yearbook (1971-86), which was subsequently renamed Film Canada Yearbook (1986-2007).

– 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.
  • ———. “At the Very Beginning, The Holland Brothers of Ottawa Ushered in the World Motion Picture Industry.” In Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry, 45-49. Toronto: Film Publications of Canada, 1952.
  • ———. “The Story of L. Ernest Ouimet, Pioneer.” In Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry, 23-43. Toronto: Film Publications of Canada, 1952.

Date Added:
April 11, 2024
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VANCOUVER 205-2182 W. 12th Ave., Vancouver, BC. Shirl G. Wilson Vice-President ..... . James Davie SOCFCRATY-TFCOSUTEL ...cceeeesssesesssenessseneneneneneranen Larry Strick THE PIONEER OF THE YEAR AWARD In 1952 the CPP marked The Golden Anniversary of the Silver Screen in Canada, dating it from the establishment of the first successful motion picture theatre—the Electric of John Schuberg on Cordova Street, Vancouver, which he opened in the Fall of 1902. At the celebration banquet, held in the Royal York Hetel, Toronto, Schuberg, Jule Allen of Toronto, George Ganetakos of Montreal, A. J. Mason of Springhill, NS, L. Ernest Ouimet of Montreal and Fred G. Spencer of Saint John, NB were honcred as pre-1910 pioneers who had done the most to advance the motion picture as a popular form of entertainment in its early days. Spencer passed on shortly before the banquet and Schuberg, Ganetakos and Allen have died since. The next year The Pioneer of the Year Award was inaugurated. Those who have received it to date are—1953: John J. Fitzgibbons, Sr., CBE; 1954: Jack Arthur, MBE; 1955: Louis Rosenfeld; 1956: O. R. Hanson; 1957: Wm. Summerville, Sr.; 1958: N. A. Taylor; 1959: Haskell M. Masters; 1969: Morris Stein; 1961: R. W. Bolstad; 1962: Wm. G. Lester; 1963: Frank H. Fisher; 1964: Harry and Bob Hurwitz; 1965: Herbert Allen; 1966: Dan Krendel. MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY COUNCIL OF CANADA Executive Secretary, 21 Dundas Sq., Toronto, Ont. (364-9630) AFFILIATES British Columbia Exhibitors Association; Alberta Theatres Association; Saskatchewan Motion Picture Exhibitors Association; Manitoba Motion Picture Exhibitors Association; Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario; Association des Proprietaires de Cinemas du Que., Inc.; Maritime Motion Picture Exhibitors Association; Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association; Association of Motion Picture Producers and Laboratories of Canada; Equipment Dealers Association; National Association of Concessisonaires; Film Advertising Circle; and Bob Hurwitz; 1965: Herbert Allen; 1966: Dan Krendel. President OFFICERS Honorary Chairman .... Chairman Peter S. Myers ie «.» Harry Prygrocki Vice-Chairman . Gaston H. Theroux Vice-Chairman . Cc. R. B. Salmon Vice=CHaI CMM) civecsecocspectesessctarctsssselieeepertios Jerry Solway Vice-Chairman ..... Wm. Summerville Executive Secretary -cecccccsccssseesesseneeeseeee H. C. D. Main EXECUTIVE BOARD J. J. Fitzgibbons, Jr., A. J. Mason, David Griesdorf, R. W. Bolstad, Charles H. Chaplin, F. H. Fisher, P. S. Myers. NATIONAL CATHOLIC OFFICE FOR MOTION PICTURES 453 Madison Ave., NY, 10022, NY. (PLaza 9-1400) Executive (Secretary) Sccasseccscasictcossesssrstrecasemiectins Right Rev. Monsignor Thomas F, Little, STL, LHD Assistant Executive Secretary -serecsssssereseveneresneee Rev. Patrick J. Sullivan, SJ, STD Chairman, Motion Picture Dept. vervcsssssssrssssseese Mrs, J. F. Looram, LHD VARIETY CLUBS INTERNATIONAL, TENT 28, ONTARIO Colonnade, 131 Bloor St. W., Toronto, Ont. OFFICERS Chief Barker ....... . Jack Bernstein Ist Asst. Chief Barker . Winston Barron 2nd Asst. Chief Barker ...-.sessssessssesnscesesees Meyer Axler Property Master ... Barry Nesbitt Dough Guy .......... . Robert Lester CANVASMEN Sam Shopsowitz, Harvey Dobbs, Sydney Koffman, Leonard Bishop, Charles Mason, Wes. McKnight. CHAPLAINS Father G. J. Cherrier, OBE; Rabbi Stuart E. Rosenberg, Ph.D.; Rev. Hugh MacDonald. COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN (1966) Fund Raising .---.-c0 Winston Barron, Meyer Axler Liaison with Variety Village .. Lionel Lester Publicity .. Douglas Wells Finance ..... a R. W. Bolstad Football Tickets Sick & Welfare ... Press Clipping Library .... Telephone ....... Membership ... Constitution & By-Laws Programs & Meetings Ceremonial Barker . PIOUS cececesteocrecenseees Football Program ... Sydney Koffman Meeting Co-ordinator . .. Douglas Wells Heart Trustees ........ N. A. Taylor, J. J. Fitzgibbons, Jr., Conn Smythe, Dan Krendel TENT 28 CHARTER MEMBERS The Variety Club of Toronto, later changed to the Variety Club of Ontario, received its charter from the Variety Clubs of America (which became Variety Clubs International) in Sept., 1945, and its Interim Crew made up of charter members, was confirmed in February, 1946. The first Crew was comprised of John J. Fitzgibbons, Chief Barker; Paul L. Nathanson, First Assistant Chief Barker; the late L. M. Devaney, Second Assistant Chief Barker; the late B. S. Okun, Dough Guy; O. R. Hanson, Property Master; and the late William P. Covert, H. L. Nathanson, the late Ben Freedman, the late Gordon Lightstone, Ernest Rawley and N. A. Taylor, canvasmen. PAST CHIEF BARKERS 1946, 1947-1948: John J. Fitzgibbons, CBE; 19491950: Morris Stein; 1951: J. J. Chisholm; 1952, 1953: R. W. Bolstad; 1954: Wm. Summerville, Jr.; 1955: Harry S. Mandell; 1956: David Griesdorf; 1957, 1958: N. A. Taylor; 1959: Dan Krendel; 1960: John J. Fitzgibbons, Jr.; 1961 Phil Stone; 1962: Lionel Lester; 1963: George Altman; 1964-65: Robert R. Hall. TENT 28 HEART AWARD WINNERS In 1947 the late Peter Campbell, then president of the Maple Leaf Baseball Club, was singled out by the Variety Club for his great work and presented with a gift to symbolize it. The following year Conn Smythe, president of the Maple Leaf Hockey Club, was similarly honored. By vote of the tent it was decided to undertake an annual award for the member who had done the most to serve its cause and that this was to be known as a “Heart Award.” The winners since its inception are—1948: John J. Fitzgibbons, Sr.; 1949: James Cameron; 1950: Wm. Summerville, Jr.; 1951: Ernest M. Rawley; 1952: George Altman; 1953: Monty Hall; 1954: Dan Krendel; 1955: Jim Nairn: 1956: R. W. Bolstad; 1957: J. A. Troyer; 1958: Herb Allen; 1959: Bert Brown; 1960: J. J. Fitzgibbons, Jr.; 1961: Ed DeRocher; 1962: Hye Bossin; 1963: Frank Strean; 1964: Andrew Rouse. . Leon Weinstein Ben. Granatstein . Charles Mason . Robert Lester . Wes. McKnight . Harry S. Mandell ... Harvey Dobbs . Wes. McKnight Robert Lawrence