20th Century-Fox Dynamo (July 22, 1939)

6 NEW DYNAMO PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON, SAN FRANCISCO AND MINNEAPOLIS WIN EDUCATIONAL MONTH PRIZES! Sam Gross’ Philadelphia won first prize—and $400 in cash—in the recent Edu- cational Anniversary Month competition. To readers of New Dynamo this victory comes as no surprise. Neither will readers be surprised to learn that second prize, carrying $300, has gone to Sam Wheeler’s Washington. Ballentine’s San Francisco took third prize, $200, and Podoloff’s Minneapolis earned the fourth award or $400. Beiersdorf’s Dallas missed winning a prize by a very narrow margin. The prize money will be divided among members of the booking departments and local salesmen. Up to the last Educational Month campaign only members of the booking departments shared in the monetary spoils. This year the salesmen were declared in the local prize division. Philadelphia and Washington were first and second, respectively, over the other 29 qualifying U. S. branches by very wide margins. Gross’ Quakers enjoyed their greatest and most successful Educational Month campaign. And in Washington, too, the month was an outstanding success com- pared with the showings made by other exchanges. Nowhere was more enterprise displayed in turning Educational film into cash than in those two territories where practically all K-6 accounts subscribed to an all-star list of revivals. An analysis of the official figures for Educational month revealed the fact that the field force did an excellent job in the matter of liquidation of uncompleted Edu- cational contracts. Edgar Moss’ Atlantics came through with by far the best district record. But this was made possible because of the exceptional performances of Philadelphia and Washington. William Sussman’s East came out the strongest divisionally, with W. .1. Kupper’s West second and W. C. Gehring’s Central third. The prize winners were determined by a committee representing both this com- pany and Educational. Short Subjects Manager W. J. Clark and the division man- agers were named by Mr. Wobber to represent this company, while President Hammons of Educational officiated for his organization. Not withstanding the fact that all available product represented wares on past programs, many branches set exceptionally high marks for volume of two-reel print shipments, according to a breakdown of the May bookings. FIVE BUNCHED FOR LEAD IN $2000 SHORTS RACE! Five Branches—Charlotte, Albany, Chicago, Winnipeg and Oklahoma City—are battling for first prize in the $2000 Movietone- Terrytoon 52-week short subjects delivery prize contest ! Chicago was prepared to its last-minute bid for first award with what should be a territorial record for a July over-quota delivery on short subjects. But Charlotte was still leading at the beginning of the 51st week of this race. And Albany threatened to overtake the Tarheels by the end of the week. In fact, reports from Albany were just to that effect. Winnipeg was prepared to cope with a last-minute splurge and Oklahoma City was reportedly “ready for any emergency.” If anything, the short subjects delivery prize race is even closer than that for the K-6 total delivery honors. Albany was only one-tenth of a point behind Charlotte and three-tenths ahead of Chicago. The Chicagoans promise a final fortnight’s delivery that will boost their K-6 season’s accumulated 52 weeks’ revenue on shorts above the 100 per cent mark, something that are positive to effect on total delivery! While the Prairie group is cer- tain of the district laurels on to- tal delivery, not so certain is the final occupant of the district throne of short subjects. Levy’s Prairies are first, but by a margin of only 1.4 points over the Great Lakes. So spec- tacular is the final fortnight’s delivery from Chicago expected to be that no one who knows what is going on in the field will be surprised if, in the 52nd week, Eckhardt’s office makes it pos- sible for the Great Lakes district to overtake the Prairies. But neither Prairie nor Great Lakes can afford to overlook Bal- lance’s South. However, the Dixie combination will have to go high over quota to catch either Prairie or Lakes. What is more, the South will have to watch its step where Ward Scott’s Midwest is concerned. The Midwesterners were only one-half point to the rear of the Southerners. Divisionally, the three outfits are separated by narrow mar- gins, but Gehring’s Centrals seem reasonably certain of hold- ing down the position they now occupy. The pace-setting Cen- trals are three points ahead of Kupper’s West which tops Suss- man’s East by 4.7. Beiersdorf’s Dallas, Podoloff’s Minneapolis, Edmond’s Seattle, Sturm’s Detroit and Buxbaum’s New York were still battling for one of the rich prizes, but they faced no easy job pulling down any of the present occupants of the five prize-paying positions. Dallas was just three points be- hind Oklahoma City and 1.2 bet- ter situated than Minneapolis. Seattle trailed the Gophers by 3.4 and headed the Detroiters by 3.3. New York needed nine- tenths of a point to arrest the Detroit delegation. Although down in 26th place, reports from Salt Lake City I — 1939-40 — , K-7 NEWS i i *— SALES - BRANCHES July July 15th Branch (Manager) 6th 1 Pittsburgh (Cohn) 1 Washington (Wheeler) 2 Atlanta (Wilson) 3 Cincinnati (Grady) 4 Winnipeg (Huber) 8 Memphis (Young) 5 Portland (Powers) 7 Bos Angeles (Dillon) 6 St. Louis (Reingold) 9 Minneapolis (Podoloff) 11 Albany (Grassgreen) 10 Charlotte (Longdon) 14 Dallas (Beiersdorf) 12 Milwaukee (Lorentz) 13 Cleveland (Schmertz) 15 Salt Lake (Walker) 19 Denver (Morrison) 16 Frisco (Ballentine) 17 New Haven (Simon) 18 Des Moines (Mayer) 21 Boston (Callahan) 20 Seattle (Edmond) 22 Philadelphia (Gross) 26 Omaha (Scott) 24 New Orleans (Landaiche) .... 23 Indianapolis (Landis) 25 Oklahoma (Clark) 28 Buffalo (Samson) 27 Kansas (Fuller) 29 New York (Buxbaum) 30 Vancouver (Patterson) 32 Chicago (Eckhardt) 31 Montreal (English) 33 Detroit (Sturm) 34 Calgary (Skorey) 35 St. John (March) 36 Toronto (Bailey) 37 DISTRICTS 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 July 15th District (Manager) Atlantic (Moss) South (Ballance) Mid-East (Roberts) Coast (—) Prairie (Levy) . . . Northeast (Bailey) 7 Midwest (Scott) 8 Great Lakes (—) 9 Canada (O’Loghlin) DIVISIONS July 15tli Division (Manager) 1 West (Kupper) 2 East (Sussman) 3 Central (Gehring) . . . . 6 July 6th 1 <•> 4 3 6 8 9 July 6th . 1 r 1939-40 _ K-7 SNORTS .... SALES —— BRANCHES July 15tli Branch (Manager) July 6th 1 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 I 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Pittsburgh (Cohn) Washington (Wheeler) 2 Dallas (Beiersdorf) 3 Winnipeg (Huber) 4 Salt Lake (Walker) 6 Charlotte (Longdon) 9 St. Louis (Reingold) 7 Memphis (Young) 5 Minneapolis (Podoloff) 10 Milwaukee (Lorentz) 8 Albany (Grassgreen) 11 Los Angeles (Dillon) 12 Atlanta (Wilson) 13 Seattle (Edmond) 15 Cincinnati (Grady) 14 New Orleans (Landaiche) .... 16 Cleveland (Schmertz) 17 Omaha (Scott) 21 Denver (Morrison) 18 Frisco (Ballentine) 19 Oklahoma (Clark) 20 Philadelphia (Gross) 23 Boston (Callahan) 22 Indianapolis (Landis) 24 Des Moines (Mayer) 25 St. John (March) 26 Portland (Powers) 30 New Haven (Simon) 27 Calgary (Skorey) 28 Kansas (Fuller) 29 Chicago (Eckhardt) 32 Buffalo (Samson) 31 Vancouver (Patterson) 34 Montreal (English) 33 Detroit (Sturm) 35 Toronto (Bailey) 36 New York (Buxbaum) 37 July 15th DISTRICTS District (Manager) July 6tli 1 Atlantic (Moss) South (Ballance) 2 Prairie (Levy) 4 Coast (—) 3 Midwest (Scott) 5 Mid-East (Roberts) 7 7 Northeast (Bailey) 6 8 Great Lakes (—) 8 9 Canada (O’Loghlin) 9 DIVISIONS •July July 15th Division (Manager) Gtll 1 West (Kupper) 1 2 East (Sussman) 3 3 Central (Gehring) 3 6 promised a rip-roaring finish, although the Mormons are too far down in the race to seriously worry any of the first 10 offices. Just 10 points parted Salt Lake and 10th place occupant, New York. At least 10 branches were posi- tive of winding up the K-6 sea- son with over-quota score on ac- cumulated 52-week’s delivery on Movietone News. In the order in which they entered the 51st week they are: Cincinnati, Dallas, Washing- ton, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Char- lotte, Minneapolis and Salt Lake City. There is a possibility that Continued on Page 13 DELIVERY ON SHORTS " 50 Weeks ——" BRANCHES 1 i J July 15411 Branch (Manager) .1 Charlotte (Longdon) 2 Albany (Grassgreen) 3 Chicago (Eckhardt) 4 Winnipeg (Huber) 5 Oklahoma (Clark) . 6 Dallas (Beiersdorf) Minneapolis (Podoloff) Seattle (Edmond) Detroit (Sturm) . . New York (Buxbaum) St. Louis (Reingold) Los Angeles (Dillon) Montreal (English) Frisco (Ballentine) Des Moines (Mayer) Calgary (Skorey) . . Cincinnati (Grady) New Orleans (Landaiche) Buffalo (Samson) July 1st 1 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 13 12 15 14 17 16 18 19 DISTRICTS July 15th 20 21 23 24 25 26 Branch (Manager) 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 July 1st Portland (Powers) 20 Memphis (Young) 22 Toronto (Bailey) 23 Omaha (Scott) 22 Boston (Callahan) 24 Philadelphia (Gross) 25 Salt Lake (Walker) . . . 26 Kansas (Fuller) 28 Indianapolis (Landis) 27 Milwaukee (Lorentz) 30 Washington (Wheeler) 31 Denver (Morrison) 29 Vancouver (Patterson) ...... 32 Cleveland (Schmertz) 34 St. John (March) 35 Pittsburgh (Cohn) 33 New Haven (Simon) 37 Atlanta (Wilson) 36 July 15th District (Manager) 1 Prairie (Levy) . . . . 2 Great Lakes (—) . . 3 South (Ballance) . . . 4 Midwest (Scott) . . . 5 Coast (—) July 1st . 1 . 3 I July July 15th District (Manager) 1st 6 Canada (O’Loghlin) 6 7 Northeast (Bailey) 7 8 Mid-East (Roberts) 8 9 Atlantic (Moss) 9 DELIVERY ON * 50 Weeks BRANCHES July 15th Branch (Manager) 1 Cincinnati (Grady) 2 Dallas (Beiersdorf) 3 Washington (Wheeler) 4 Oklahoma (Clark) . . 5 Indianapolis (Landis) 6 Philadelphia (Gross) 7 Pittsburgh (Cohn) . 8 Charlotte (Longdon) 9 Minneapolis (Podoloff) 10 Salt Lake (Walker) . 11 Atlanta (Wilson) . . . 12 Los Angeles (Dillon) 13 Des Moines (Mayer) . 14 Kansas (Fuller) .... 15 St. Louis (Reingold) 16 Winnipeg (Huber) . . 17 Cleveland (Schmertz) 18 New York (Buxbaum) 19 Milwaukee (Lorentz) July 15tli District (Manager) 1 Atlantic (Moss) 2 South (Ballance) . . . 3 Prairie (Levy) 4 Mid-East (Roberts) 5 Midwest (Scott) . . . . July 1st 1 3 4 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 July 15th 20 21 23 24 Branch (Manager) July 1st Frisco (Ballentine) 20 Vancouver (Patterson) 21 Omaha (Scott) 23 Montreal (English) 22 Chicago (Eckhardt) 24 25 Detroit (Sturm) 25 26 Boston (Callahan) 26 27 Portland (Powers) 27 28 Denver (Morrison) 28 29 Memphis (Young) 29 30 Seattle (Edmond) 30 31 New Haven (Simon) 31 32 Albany (Grassgreen) 32 33 New Orleans (Landaiche) .... 33 34 Buffalo (Samson) 34 35 St. John (March) 35 36 Toronto (Bailey) 36 37 Calgary (Skorey) 37 DISTRICTS July July 1st 1 2 3 4 July 15tli District (Manager) 1st 6 Great Lakes (—) 6 7 Coast (—) 7 8 Northeast (Bailey) . . 8 9 Canada (O’Loghlin) 9