Exhibitors Herald (Aug 1920)

100 EXHIBITORS HERALD August 21, 1920 Levey Will Issue Educational and Industrial Films Through Pioneer Harry Levey has selected Pioneer Film Corporation as the distributing medium for "Truth Productions," the industrial educational motion pictures to be produced by Harry Levey Service Corporation. Since organization of his own company, Mr. Levey has been studying the various distributing concerns, and has chosen Pioneer because he believes it is the strongest independent distributing corporation in the field, handling the highest class productions, and offering the best facilities for the effective distribution of the productions made under his direction. Effective plans have been consummated for both theatrical and nontheatrical distribution of "Truth Productions," through the Pioneer exchanges, by arrangement with M. H. Hoffman, vice-president and geneial manager. Principal branches have been established in all the large cities, chief among them Detroit, Chicago, Buffalo, Philadelphia. Portland (Ore.), Cleveland, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Dallas, St. Louis, Kansas City and Washington. Each exchange will be equipped with a man whose exclusive task it will be to represent Harry Levey Service Corporation and its interests, and further the effective distribution of the Levey pictures. Window displays, advertising, posters, mail matter — all phases of the matter of increasing interest in and circulation of films, have been carefully checked up and provided for. Circulated in Plants Non-theatrical distribution, which forms so important a part of the circulation of the industrial-educational films made by Levey, will be carefully superintended, and the pictures will be circulated through plants, factories, clubs, department stores and other organizations where motion pictures of the kind made by Mr. Levey find a clientele. A system of "guaranteed circulation" will prevail throughout. Chester C. Kleber, secretary of Harry Levey Service Corporation, is directing distribution for the Level pictures. Mr. Hoffman expressed himself as delighted at the opportunity to distribute "Truth Productions" through Pioneer Film Corporation. "There is a tremendous market, theatrically and nontheatrically, for the industrial-educational motion picture," he said. Dimitri Stephon Chosen Sales and Publicity Head D. N. Schwab Company Joseph Klein, general manager for the D. N. Schwab Productions, Inc., announces the appointment of Dimitri Stephon as Supervisor of Sales and Publicity for that organization. The latter has left the field of journalism for the new enterprise, this being his first affiliation .in the motion picture industry. In the past Mr. Stephon has been on the New York Sun, the New York Evening Telegram, for which he conducted a musical column in addition to "desk" duties, and his most recent connection before associating himself with Schwab Productions was in the capacity of a "reviewer," for a theatrical trade paper. He will leave for an extended trip embracing the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cleveland, Michigan and Illinois before returning East. Top— Tense moment from "The Branding Iron" made by Reginald Barker for Goldwyn distribution. Bottom — Scene from "Madame X" starring Pauline Frederick a new Goldwyn Picture. Japanese Company Offers Vignola Important Post Robert G. Vignola, whose first special Robert G. Vignola Production for Cosmopolitan-Paramount, "The World and His Wife," has just been published, is in receipt of a letter from Tokio, Japan, offering him the director-generalship of the Kinkikan Cinematograph Company. The letter is signed by K. Takahashi, as president, and gives as references any bank in the empire of Japan, mentioning specifically the Bank of Japan, Yokohama Specie Bank, Japanese Industrial Bank, the Fifteenth Bank, the One Hundredth Bank, the Murai Bank, the Tokio Chamber of Commerce, and the Yokohama Chamber of Commerce. Part of the letter follows : "The gentlemen comprising the syndicate have been contemplating this step for a long time. They have watched several American directors — you among them — very carefully for the past two years, and have decided that you are the one man wholly fitted to undertake the important post of director-general with this organization. They offer you a splendid opportunity, financial and otherwise, to place motion picture Japan on the map."