20th Century-Fox Dynamo (August 5, 1939)

NEW DYNAMO 15 MEMPHIS TEASE PACING PITTS — 1939-40 IK-7 SHORTS | SALES ——* Following is the standing of all branches, districts and divisions on sale of 1939-40 Movietone short subjects product and Terry-Toon (K-7), based on contracts sold against possibilities, as of July 31 BRANCHES MOORE FIRST TO GET100* ON K-7 Bill Kupper’s West continues to set the divisional pace in every phase of K-7 product sales! He is first on features with a margin of 2.9 over Sussman’s East. On K-7 short subjects, the West tops the East by eight points, but on Movietone News the latter is virtually tied for the throne. Gehring’s Centrals are 13.8 behind East on features, nine points be- hind on shorts and 14.2 on Movietone News. The West is the only division that is running ahead of its K-6 sales volume as of the first week of August. Ahead of their volume of K-6 feature product contracts are the following exchanges, accord- ing to the report furnished New Dynamo by Contract Department Manager Jack Bloom: 1939-49 ——» I K-7 NEWS I L SALES — J Following is the standing of all branches, districts and divisions on total 1939-40 (K-7) Movietone News con- tracts sold against total possibilities, as of July 31: Washington Albany Boston New Haven Kansas City St. Louis Atlanta Memphis New Orleans Denver Los Angeles Salt Lake City Seattle Bailey’s Northeast boasts a district total in excess of its K-6 total at this time last year. Coast is running ahead, thanks to the West Coast circuit deal. Although showing the pace among the districts, Moss’ Atlan- tic total was not quite as rich as it was at the same date in 1938, according to the official statis- tics. STEPPING ALONG Many important circuit deals were still in the process of con- summation this week. Mr. Wobber was planning to close the McNeil-Naify circuit deal next week. Division Man- agers per, m a n G e h were Tom Young Kup- Suss- a n d ring in the midst of i m p o rtant circuit deal- ings. Among the more i m p o rtant chains closed in the past we e k wa s the deal with Bala- ban & Katz in the Chi- cago area. BRANCHES July July 31st Branch (Manager) 13th 1 Memphis (Young) 6 2 Pittsburgh (Cohn) 1 3 Washington (Wheeler) 2 4 Atlanta (Wilson) 3 5 Cincinnati (Grady) 4 6 Portland (Powers) 7 7 Winnipeg (Huber) 5 8 Los Angeles (Dillon) 8 9 St. Louis (Reingold) 9 10 Minneapolis (Podoloff) 10 11 Charlotte (Longdon) 12 12 Albany (Grassgreen) 11 13 Dallas (Beiersdorf) 13 14 Milwaukee (Lorentz) 14 15 Cleveland (Schmertz) 15 16 *New Haven (Simon) 19 17 *Kansas (Fuller) 29 18 Salt Lake (Walker) 16 19 Boston (Callahan) 21 20 Denver (Morrison) 17 21 Frisco (Ballentine) 18 22 Des Moines (Mayer) 20 23 Philadelphia (Gross) 23 24 Seattle (Edmond) 22 25 Omaha (Scott) 24 26 New Orleans (Landaiche) .... 25 27 Indianapolis (Landis) 26 28 Oklahoma (Clark) 27 29 Buffalo (Samson) 28 30 New York (Buxbaum) 30 31 Vancouver (Patterson) 31 32 Chicago (Eckhardt) 32 33 Montreal (English) 33 34 Detroit (Sturm) 34 35 Calgary (Skorey) 35 36 St. John (March) 36 37 Toronto (Bailey) 37 * Tied. DISTRICTS July 'July 31st District (Manager) 13th 1 Atlantic (Moss) 1 2 South (Ballance) 2 3 Mid-East (Roberts) 3 4 Coast (—) 4 5 Northeast (Bailey) 3 6 Prairie (Levy) 5 7 Midwest (Scott) 7 8 Great Lakes (—) 8 9 Canada (O’Loghlin) 9 DIVISIONS July July 31st Division (Manager) 13th 1 West (Kupper) 1 2 East (Sussman) 2 3 Central (Gehring) 3 That August will see a gen- eral splurge on sales is the frank claim of the division managers. All contracts are being an- alytically scrutinized by Mr. Wobber, for with the tremen- dous increase in production cost that must be absorbed, it is im- perative that the maximum earning power of the K-7 output be protected in every single situ- ation. Ira Cohn’s Pittsburghers have sold virtually three-quarters of their total territorial feature possibilities, but on short sub- jects and Movietone News the Steel City combination does not show the relative strength Tom Young’s Memphis can boast. The Tennessee aggregation is first on shorts and News sales, and only 1.4 points behind the Pirates on the features. THE DISTRICTS Wilson’s Atlanta and Wheel- er’s Washington are feuding. The former is six points behind Memphis on features, but 11th on short subjects and fourth on News. Washington trails At- lanta by only five points on fea- tures, but is 6.2 richer on Movie- tone-Terrytoon circulation and only one-tenth of a mark stronger on News figures. Moss’ Atlantics are six points ahead of Ballance’s South on K- 7 feature sales. Bailey’s North- east trailed Dixie by 11.1, but headed Scott’s Midwest by 2.4. Coast needed eight-tenths of a mark to hook Midwest and led Roberts’ Mid-East by 2.6. Levy’s Prairies were seventh, six-tenths under Mid-East and 3.7 above O’Loghlin’s Canadians. Great Lakes were last, 10.2 be- hind the Dominions. On short subjects sales, Atlan- tic was 7.4 above the South, which led Midwest by 7.2, with Coast hard-pressing the latter. On News circulation to date, Atlantic was 6.3 better than the South and 6.6 ahead of Roberts’ Mid-East. Coast and Bailey’s Northeast were almost neck and neck, with Scott’s Midwest 1.8 behind the Yankees and three- tenths above the Prairies. Lakes lagged 13 points behind Prairie and were six points healthier than Canada. July 31st Branch (Manager) 1 Memphis (Young) .... 2 Pittsburgh (Cohn) 3 Washington (Wheeler) . 4 Dallas (Beiersdorf) .... 5 Charlotte (Longdon) . . . 6 Winnipeg (Huber) 7 Salt Lake (Walker) . . . 8 St. Louis (Reingold) . . . 9 Philadelphia (Gross) . . . 10 Minneapolis (Podoloff) . 11 Milwaukee (Lorentz) . . 12 Atlanta (Wilson) 13 Albany (Grassgreeen) . . 14 Kansas (Fuller) 15 Los Angeles (Dillon) . . . 16 Seattle (Edmond) 17 Cincinnati (Grady) .... 18 Oklahoma (Clark) 19 New Orleans (Landaiche) 20 Cleveland (Schmertz) . . 21 Omaha (Scott) 22 Denver (Morrison) 23 Frisco (Ballentine) 24 Boston (Callahan) 25 Indianapolis (Landis) . . 26 Portland (Powers) 27 Des Moines (Mayer) . . . 28 New Haven (Simon) . . . 29 St. John (March) 30 Calgary (Skorey) 31 Chicago (Eckhardt) . . . 32 Buffalo (Samson) 33 Vancouver (Patterson) 34 Montreal (English) 35 Detroit (Sturm) 36 Toronto (Bailey) 37 New York (Buxbaum) DISTRICTS July 31st District fManager) 1 Atlantic (Moss) 2 South (Ballance) 3 Midwest (Scott) 4 Prairie (Levy) 5 Coast (—) 6 Northeast (Bailey) 7 Mid-East (Roberts) 8 Great Lakes (—) 9 Canada (O’Loghlin) . . . DIVISIONS July 31st Division (Manager) 1 West (Kupper) 2 East (Sussman) 3 Central (Gehring) July 13 th 8 . . 1 6 4 . . . 7 . . . 22 . . . 9 ... 10 . . . 13 . . . 11 . . . 30 . . . 12 . . . 14 . . . 15 . . . 21 . . . 16 . . . 17 . . . 18 . . . 19 ... 20 . . . 23 ... 24 . . . 27 ... 25 . . . 28 ... 26 ... 29 . . . 31 ... 32 ... 33 ... 34 ... 35 ... 36 ... 37 July 13th 1 . 2 . 5 . 3 . 4 . 7 6 8 9 July 13th 1 3 To George Moore, Pittsburgh’s alert salesman, goes the distinction of being the first salesman to clean up his every zone possibility on the K-7 feature product. Word to that effect came from Ira Cohn’s Pittsburgh this week. This is the earliest any salesman has sold his zone 100 per cent on the feature product. Abe Eskin of St. Louis was the first salesman to clean up his zone on last season’s output. But, he did not attain that record until the latter part of August. Moore effected that showing during the week that punctuated the official conclusion of the K-6 season. However, the St. Louisan continues to bang away unmercifully at the doors of other Pittsburghers’ homes. He is still in third place, but that is within easy reach of Pittsburgh’s Austin Interrante who hopes to hit the bull’s eye by the early part of September. Eskin hopes to bring that about before the end of the month. Nat Wyse of Memphis is in there making things hot and heavy for Eskin, but he himself has to watch his step for Jerry Murphy of Wash- ington is coming along in promising fashion. Sam Lichter of Cleveland was almost nailed by Baskin of Memphis who jumped ahead of Klein of Washington. Hendrix of Dallas and McElhinney of Salt Lake City are now tied for the ninth landing. Kellenberg, Pittsburgh’s sales manager, climbed a pair, while Houston of Dallas upped from 26 to 22, with Boston’s Matt Simons and Washington’s Glenn Norris right at his heels. Ebersole of Charlotte is 28th, a gain of four, but the Carolinian is at the mercy of Osborne of Oklahoma City. The Oiler bounced from 52nd to 29th place. Johnny Skillman of Philadelphia gained seven and is now 31st. Mitchell of Atlanta caught James of Oklahoma City and is sharing the 34th berth with the latter. The Atlantan climbed 13 brackets. Scheinberg of Cleveland and Dugan of Salt Lake City made splendid progress. Gottlieb of Des Moines landed two cozier posts. Holston of Charlotte rushed from 63rd to 48th place, but he tied with Bill Humphries of Philadelphia. The Quaker was formerly 57th. Dodson, Kinser, Feloney, Bugie, Robinette, Laseter, Rennie, McCleaster, Edgerton, Alexander and Frederick were others who I. travelled in the right direction. George Moore [SALESMEN'S STAN DING | i ON K-7 FEATURE LINEUP i l, „ Following’ is the standing’ of every salesman on the sale of 1939-40 (K-7) feature product, based on contracts sold against zone possibilities as of July 27: July July 27th Salesman (Branch) 13th 1 Moore (Pittsburgh) 1 2 Interrante (Pittsburgh) .... 2 3 Eskin (St. Louis) 3 4 Wyse (Memphis) 5 5 Murphy (Washington) 6 6 Lichter (Cleveland) 4 7 Baskin (Memphis) 8 8 Klein (Washington ) 7 9 * Hendrix (Dallas) 10 10 *McElhinney (Salt Lake) ... 9 11 Gribble (Dallas) 11 12 Ware (St. Louis) 12 13 Krupp (Winnipeg) 13 14 Pabst (New Orleans) 14 15 Cohen (Minneapolis) 15 16 Thorpe (Pittsburgh) i6 17 Tolmas (Philadelphia) 17 18 Kellenberg (Pittsburgh) .... 20 19 Bernard (Frisco) 18 20 Colian (Minneapolis) 21 21 Diamond (Washington) 19 22 Houston (Dallas) 26 23 Simons (Boston) 24 24 Norris (Washington) 25 25 Mock (Charlotte) 23 26 Sliter (Chicago) 22 27 Williams (St. Louis) 27 28 Ebersole (Charlotte) 32 29 Osborne (Oklahoma) 52 30 Shallcross (New Orleans) ... 29 31 Skillman (Philadelphia) .... 38 32 Knickerbocker (Kansas) .... 31 33 Black (Indianapolis) 33 34 * James (Oklahoma) 36 35 *Mitchell (Atlanta) 47 36 Needham (Cincinnati) 28 37 Scheinberg (Cleveland) .... 44 38 Dugan (Salt Lake) 42 39 Ironfield (Omaha) 30 40 Connelly (Boston) 37 41 Scott (Dallas) 40 42 Tidwell (Salt Lake) 34 43 Dare (Albany) 35 44 Gottlieb (Des Moines) 46 45 Erickson (Frisco) 39 46 Simon (Chicago) 41 47 Michel (Milwaukee) 43 48 Spear (Seattle) 45 49 * Holston (Charlotte) 63 50 * Humphries (Philadelphia) . . 57 51 Kinser (Kansas) 53 52 *Dodson (Atlanta) 54 53 *Halloran (Omaha) 48 July July 27th Salesman (Branch) 13tli 54 * Reiner (Albany) 51 55 Burkart (Cincinnati) 49 56 Feloney (Boston) 64 57 Mussman (Minneapolis) .... 50 58 Goodamote (Chicago) 55 59 Bugie (Cincinnati) 66 60 Horwitz (Milwaukee) 60 61 Gold (Boston) 56 62 Robinette (Portland) 71 63 Paulson (Denver) 59 64 Carrow (Detroit) 58 65 Scott (Calgary) 61 66 Berke (Omaha) 65 67 Laseter (Atlanta) 76 68 Naegel (Cincinnati) 62 69 Davis (Philadelphia) 68 70 Hancock (Indianapolis) .... 70 71 Lorentz (Minneapolis) 67 72 Riegelman (Des Moines) .... 69 73 Rennie (Denver) 75 74 *McCleaster (Indianapolis) ... 79 75 * McClure (Atlanta) 72 76 *Fairchild (Atlanta) 78 77 Lyons (Minneapolis) 73 78 Edgerton (Milwaukee) 74 79 Wright (New Haven) 80 80 O’Neil (Des Moines) 77 81 Woodward (Kansas) 81 82 Alexander (Boston) 85 83 Dickman (Buffalo) 82 84 Rowell (Buffalo) 83 85 Westcott (Detroit) 84 86 Wall (Los Angeles) 86 87 Frederick (Seattle) 89 88 Hall (Minneapolis) 87 89 Pearson (Montreal) 88 90 Hallstrom (Salt Lake) 90 91 Miller (Dallas) 92 92 Neger (Indianapolis) 91 93 Kubitzki (Kansas) 93 94 Kempner (Buffalo) 94 95 Lester (Toronto) 102 96 Feld (St. Louis) 95 97 *Unassigned (New Y T ork) .... 96 98 *Kurtz (New York) 101 99 Laurice (Frisco) 97 100 Keilcr (Detroit) 98 101 *Bergman (Cleveland) 100 102 * Robison (Los Angeles) 99 103 Blumstein (New York) .... 103 104 Florin (New York) 104 105 Schutzer (New York) 105 106 fReid (Toronto) 106 107 fKnapp (Detroit) 107 108 fLoeb (Chicago) • .108 109 fGrohe (Chicago) 109 * Tied, f Blank. QUALITY K-7 CONTRACTS SET RECORDS Continued from Page 2 productions scheduled for K-7 release. In the multi - million - dollar class of K-7 productions before cameras or completed or in the cutting rooms are: “Stanley and Livingstone,” “The Rains Came,” “Hollywood Cavalcade,” “Drums Along the Mohawk” and “Little Old New York.” While the studio was never in better shape insofar as its pro- duction schedule was concerned, the fact remained that from the distribution angle everything was in readiness to make imme- diate capital of the completed K-7 attractions. The records of the Contract Department at the Home Office showed that the beginning of the new season found this com- pany in possession of completed deals with 80 per cent more na- tional and territorial circuits than had been closed when the K-6 year was inaugurated. Notwithstanding the fact that new distribution problems arose in the Spring, thus delaying ac- tive selling insofar as salesmen were concerned, the Contract Department record showed this week that individual sales re- sults, too, were definitely in ex- cess of what they had been at this time a year ago. Mr. Wobber, in New York, was planning for his trip to the studio to confer with Mr. Zanuck with regard to turning loose a batch of specials for trade show- ings in the more important ex- change cities in the United States. The sales chief was also preparing to make his annual visit to the branch offices, being accompanied by the Drive leader.