20th Century-Fox Dynamo (February 3, 1940)

NEW DYNAMO 11 NORTHEASTERNERS CATCH ATLANTICS ON K-7 SALES COUVERS NAB CLEVELAND ON NEWS Sales Races See Numerous Hookups Cleveland did not fare so well in its effort to hold or share terri- torial leadership on the various sales units. It was pushed back by Pittsburgh on the features. On K-7 shorts, it was caught by Philadelphia and Pitts- burgh. And on K-7 Movietone News sales none other than Patter- son’s Vancouver nabbed Schmertz’s contingent. While the changes in News sales standing's were not spec- tacular, there were moves that furnish the headliners with plenty of food for thought. Cleveland had not seriously worried about Vancouver’s threats, published in New Dyna- mo as far back as December. Then, Manager Patterson served notice on the U. S. offices that Vancouver would not be content until it had taken possession of the throne on K-7 News sales. Well, Vancouver is on the verge of materializing that pre- diction into accomplished fact. Vancouver’s capture of C 1 e v e 1 and was a blow not only to the latter, but also to Gross’ Phila- d e 1 p h i a, Grady’s Cin- cinnati and Cohn’s Pitts- J. Patterson burgh. In fact, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati are sharing No. 4, only 1.6 behind Cincinnati. How the sales races are tight- ening may be more fully appre- ciated by a study of the stand- ings. All are featured by pres- ence of many tied races. No exception is the K-7 News effort. Los Angeles, which is still among the best offices when it comes to turning News contracts into cash, tied Boston for the 10th post. East and Atlantic are still far stronger than the West and Cen- tral. East divisionally leads leads West on News circulation effected to date by 15 points. It heads Central by 19 points. In no compettiion does the leading district rule such a pro- nounced leader as does East on News selling. Atlantic is four points strong- er than its nearest district, the Mid-East which is three points more powerful than Northeast. Coast is almost eight points be- hind Northeast and 3.3 better off than the South. Prairie was 3.2 under South and 1.4 ahead of Great Lakes. Midwest tagged 2.1 behind the Lakes, and is about to submit to Canada. This is expected to happen this week. New Haven is marching on News, being one point behind Cincinnati and Pittsburgh and three points in front of Wash- ington. San Francisco is as dangerous as ever, 2.6 to the rear of the Washingtonians and one point nearer than New York. Buffalo Continues Its Climb —New Haveners Vault Boston — Pittsburgh Breaks Tie For Lead With Clevelanders! Tom Bailey’s Northeasterners have made good their threat to arrest Edgar Moss’ Atlantics for district K-7 feature product sales leadership. The latter had been first in this department since K-7 selling started last Spring. i.’ldl' 1 . 1 'V 4U . , . r !! 1 The Northeasterners can thank Simon’s New Haveners for enabling them to finally capture the Atlantics. How- ever, between the Atlantics’ pacer and the Yankees’ trail-blazer still stands Schmertz s Cleveland. The Ohio delega- tion, on the other hand, is no longer running neck and neck with Ira Cohn s Pittsburghers for departmental sales leadership on the feature output. Pittsburgh now leads i K-7 FEATURE SALES ! wumm i Following is the standing of every branch, district and division on sale of K-7 feature product against total possibilities, as of January 31: BRANCHES Jan. Jan. 31st Branch. (Manager) 24th Jan. 31st Branch (Manager) 1 Pittsburgh (Gross) . . 2 Cleveland (Schmertz) 3 New Haven (Simon) . 4 Boston (Callahan) . . . 5 Winnipeg (Huber) . . . 6 * Philadelphia (Gross) 7 *St. Louis (Reingold) . . Washington (Wheeler) Albany (Grassgreen) . San Francisco (Ballentine) Dallas (Beiersdorf) .... Salt Lake City (Walker) Buffalo (Samson) New Orleans (Landaiche) ♦Memphis (Young) . . . ♦New York (Buxbaum) Indianapolis (Landis) Milwaukee (Lorentz) Los Angeles (Dillon) . 8 9 10 11 12 13 11 15 16 18 19 Jan. 24th 1 3 9 6 8 10 1 1 10 14 13 15 i; 18 20 21 23 24 20 28 29 32 33 34 35 30 37 31st District Atlantic Northeast ~ Mideast 3 South 4 Midwest •”* DIVISIONS Jan. | Jan. 31st Division 1 East 1 2 West * Jan Cincinnati (Grady) 21 Oklahoma (dark) 19 Charlotte (Longdon) 2’. Atlanta (Wilson) 23 Minneapolis (Podoloff) 24 Chicago (Eckhardt) 20 Omaha (Scott) 25 Kansas City (Fuller) 27 Des Moines (Mayer) 28 Denver (Morrison) 29 30 * Detroit (Sturm) •* 31 *Vancouver (Patterson) 34 Toronto (Bailey) 30 Portland (Powers) 33 St. John (March) 3 . Montreal (English) 35 Seattle (Edmond) 30 Calgary (Skorey) 37 * Tied. DISTRICTS Jan. Jan. 31st District 24th 0 Coast 0 7 Great Lakes 7 8 Prairie 3 9 Canada 0 Jan. 24th 4 Jan. 31st Division 24th 3 Central 3 ... SALES — [SHORTS, Following is the standing of all branches, districts and divisions on the sale of the K-7 Movietone Terrytoon short subjects program against total possibilities, as of January 31: BRANCHES i r ... SALES i NEWS Following is the standing of all branches, districts and divisions on the sale of K-7 Movietone News service against total possibilities, as of January 31: BRANCHES DISTRICTS Jan. 31st District 1 Atlantic 2 Mideast 3 Midwest 4 Northeast 5 South DIVISIONS Jan. 31st District 6 Coast 7 Great Lakes 8 Prairie 9 Canada Jan. 31st Division 1 East 2 West Jan. 31st Division 3 Central DISTRICTS Jan. 31st District 1 Atlantic 2 Mideast 3 Northeast 4 Coast 5 South DIVISIONS Jan. 31st Division 1 East 2 West Jan. 31st District 6 Prairie 7 Great Lakes 8 Midwest 9 Canada Jan. 31st Division 3 Central ( 78 NEW SALES RECORDS MADE An analysis of official statistics in the Home Office Contract Department this week showed that as of Feb. 1, the Depart- ment of Distribution had broken 78 records covering various phases of circulation on features, News and shorts. All but five branches boast K-7 feature circulation figures well in excess of that reached on K-6 at this time last year. One- reelers show a substantial gain. More salesmen are near the I 100 per cent mark than were so fixed as of Feb. 1 in any i previous year. Cleveland by one-half point. Sussman’s pace-setting East further stiffened its hold on divisional sales leadership, now heading Kupper’s West by 5.6 and Gehring’s Centrals by exactly 10 points. Seven of the top branches fly the colors of the Eastern division, two are affiliated with the West and one is a Central. Territorial circulation records galore have been estab- lished. Only five branches were trailing behind their K-6 figures. But the circulation figures of the other 32 offices were so much larger than last season that the depart- mental total tops the old record, for the first of Feb- ruary, by 9.5 per cent. New Haven, now third, is only 2.5 behind Cleveland. The Con- necticut office snapped into that berth at the expense of Calla- han’s Boston, which it tops by only one-half point. Interesting, too, was the Reingold’s St. l jumping two maneuver of Louis, which places, tied Gross’ Phila- delphia for possession of the sixth landing, the hooked cou- ple t r a i ling only seven - tenths behind Huber’s Win- nipeg, which jumped two. Philadel- phia and Washing- ton stepped down for the Pegs. Wheel- er’s office also St. Louis. All in all, it was a week that brought no brightening of hope of holding on sales leadership for the Atlantic district. Pitts- burgh is stronger, but both Philadelphia and Washington had to step aside for advancing outfits. Grassgreen’s Albanians auto- matically dropped one when Reingold’s Cardinals leaped. I. H. Cohn dropped behind Now Ballentine’s San Francis- cans still 10th, are within one- half point of the Albanians. Beiersdorf’s Dallas took 11th place from Walker’s Salt Lake City, leading the Utah delega- tion by one-tenth of a mark. Samson’s Buffaloans are step- ping high, wide and handsome on sales. If they can match their new sales pace with actual dol- lar delivery, the Herders should very soon move out of the cel- lar on revenue. This week the Bisons rocketed from 16 to 13, running ahead of Landaiche’s New Orleans, Young’s Memphis and Buxbaum’s New York. The last two mentioned exchanges tied for No. 15, one-half point under the Tennessee combina- tion. Landis’ Indianapolis and Lo- rents’ Milwaukee marked time in old quarters, but are being now teased by Dillon’s Los An- geles, which almost caught them, after sweeping ahead of Clark’s Oklahoma City which dropped from 19 to 21. The Oil- ers also fell back for Grady’s Cincinnatians. Longdon’s Charlotte, Wilson’s Atlanta and Podoloff’s Minnea- polis held to old quarters, with Eckhardt’s Chicagoans within easy reaching distance of the trio. The Chicagoans took the long end of a swap with Scott’s Omaha. Fuller’s Kansas City, Mayer’s Des Moines and Morrison’s Den- ver did not transfer. Patterson’s Vancouverans and Sturm’s De- troiters embraced for No. 30. THREE-OFFICE TIE ON SHORT SUBJECTS! YANKEES HOOK DIXIE! Two Atlantics and one Mid-Eastern branch are fighting it out for first place on K-7 short subjects sales. This came about when both Cohn’s Pittsburgh and Gross’ Philadelphia caught up with Schmartz’s Cleve- land. This trio is only 2.9 points ahead of the third Atlantic office, Wheeler’s Washington. Ballance’s South and Bailey’s Northeast are tied for fourth place, but Moss’ Atlantics still command, 6.8 ahead of Roberts’ Mid-East. Scott’s Midwest is still trying to catch Atlantic and Mid-East, but now finds itself being heavily attacked by Yankees and Southerners. Coast, Great Lakes, Prairie and Canada are doing nowhere near as well as the other five districts on volume of contracts sold on the short subject product. New Haven and Memphis are tied for No. 9, while Oklahoma City is sharing the 13th chair with Los Angeles. St. Louis, New Orleans and Albany are still in the race for permanent first place in this classification, ranking a little better than three points behind the tied triumvirate. East is more strongly fortified in the divisional lead, topping West by 3.7 and Central by 12 points.