The Film Daily (1941)

MPTOA, PCC Joint Convention: The MPTOA will meet here June 8 to 10 in joint convention with the Pacific Coast Conference of ITO, with the PCC as hosts of the national convention, according to present plans. Ed Kuykendall, MPTOA prexy, will submit the PCC invitation to the MPTOA board of directors but there is not expected to be any opposition to a joint meeting. Kuykendall, who conferred with PCC officials, is en route to Dallas and Okla $34,000,000 PIX COIN "FROZEN" IN U. K. Extend Teaching Films Contract for Three Years Will Run Until June, '45; New Catalog to be Issued May Have 150 More Shorts Hays on the Industry Extension of the present contract by which selected non-current theatrical shorts are distributed by Teaching Film Custodians, Inc., to American schools until June, 1945, is assured. Directors of Teaching Film Custodians have okayed negotiations for a new three-year pact to supplement that expiring in June, 1942. A revised catalog of selected 'lined on Page 6) Crime and Horror Films Decline 3% CONSENT DECREE: "Only time can determine whether the experiment now undertaken will work out in every provision. What has been established, however, is a result which neither destructive legislation nor expensive litigation could by themselves produce. Legislation and litigation may decide an issue, but only self-regulation can solve a problem." o RULES OF ARBITRATION: "By adopting once more a plan of arbitration, it (the industry) has moved in the direction of peaceful settlement of trade disputes. It is earnestly recommended that the effort for better understanding be pursued both by exhibitors and distributors." Crime and horror pix in 1940 dropped more than 3 per cent, according to PCA statistics contained in the annual report of Will H. Hays, MPPDA prexy. Films in this classification in 1940 totaled 108 or 20.65 per cent as against 139 or 23.80 per cent in 1939. While Western and action pictures (Continued on Page 6) Weston Gets Membership In Local 228, East St. Louis East St. Louis, 111.— Clyde A. Weston, ousted business agent of Local 143, Operators, has been granted a membership card in Local 228 here. Action came after Local 228 for (Continued on Page 6) 150-DIinute Program Bill in Mo. Senate Jefferson City, Mo. — The 150minute program bill, sponsored by the Better Films Council of Greater St. Louis, and drafted by its counsel, Col. Milton F. Napier, has been hoppered in the Senate here by Sen. Michael Kinney of St. Louis. Measure quickly had its first reading. TNEC MONOGRAPH: "The statement is so keen about the forest that it overlooks (Continued on Page 6) Walbrook Decision No Specific Number Split; No Appeal Of Pix from Para. Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — A split decision marked the first arbitration case to be decided in the Washington area, as Arbitrator E. Barrett Prettyman made his award in the Walbrook clearance case over the weekend after a five-day hearing. Prettyman announced that he found that the clearance of Durkee's (Continued on Page 4) Fred Hutchinson Appointed Para. Sales Chief in U. K. Fred Hutchinson, currently in MG-M's sales department in London, has been named Paramount's general sales manager for Great Brit (Continued on Page 4) Paramount will not announce any specific number of pictures for the new season, Barney Balaban, president, said yesterday because, under the new system of selling in blocksof-five, the "season" will be eliminated. The studio will simply turn out pictures continuously to be sold in blocks-of-five, doing away with the (Continued on Page 2) Sunday Pix for Service Men Defy Virginia Blue Laws Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Basing their action on a ruling handed down 10 days ago by Commonwealth Attorney Albert V. Bryan, Alexandria (Va.) movie theaters opened Sunday for (Continued on Page 4) TNEC Report Silent on Films Propose FTC Regulation of Trade Ass'ns NBC Red, Mutual, Colonial, Nets in Davis Pix Plugs World premiere of Bette Davis' starrer, "The Great Lie," in Littleton, N. H., Saturday night is set for radio plugs via both the NBC Red Network and Mutual, Coast to (Continued on Page 4) Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington— The TNEC (Monopoly Committee), headed by Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney, in its final report to Congress yesterday, called for regulation of trade associations by the Federal Trade Commission, restricted Federal charters to control corporations engaged in interstate trade, (Continued on Page 4) "DAN Hays Report Gives Figure; Says Aid Policy Ameliorates the Exchange Problem American film company revenue "frozen" in England under remittance agreements negotiated since the outbreak of World War II will, at the present rate, total approximately $34,000,000 b y Oct. 31 when the present pact expires, according t o the annual report of Prexy Will H. Hays submitted to the , MPPDA board yesterday. Hays was re-elected president for (Continued on Pane 6) H'wood Syndicate Reps, to Aid Industry West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper, Jimmy Fidler, Fred Othman, Jimmy Star, Douglas Churchill, (Continued on Page 6) WILL H. HAYS Columbia Answers Gov't's Amended Complaint Columbia Pictures yesterday filed its answer to the Government's (Continued on Page 4) De Toto Withdraws Arbitration Case Arbitration case filed by Richard De Toto, owner of the Genesee Theater, Mount Morris, N. Y., against 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros, has been withdrawn. De Toto had charged that the two companies had refused to make their 1940-41 program available to him. Case is reported to have been settled between the parties involved. I c. Ml *7 *7 M \\ Z 1 J J. S 4