The Film Daily (1946)

rriday, June 28, 1946 *m DAILY flighty Popeye Fills zech First-Run Prague (By Air Mail) — Popeye f>n out over an OWI documentary st week in a demonstration of the pularity of Hollywood film fare ith Czechoslovakian audiences. Pop e cr *"Oon, "Seeing Red, White and lue, )as confused with an OWI cumentary "Red, White and Blue," hen a batch of films were turned er to the State Monopoly. When the management of the first n Alfa Theater booked a program OWI subjects the Popeye one eler was included and advertised part of the program. Management latedly discovered the mixup and .died the straight entertainment el, only to meet with a rebellion the audience that reached nearbt proportions, with the police lied in to restore order. With the commotion played up in ie press, public demand that the rtoon be restored forced manageent and officials to yield and inude Popeye in the program for the lance of the week. Abetted by the iblicity, the Alfa enjoyed sellout iisiness for the run. randt Pays $236,898 20th-Fox Settlement l In the wake of the Brandt Cirlit's settlement of a claim for $236,)8 by 20th-Fox in connection with accounting on percentage picires, other companies, including arners and Paramount, were rented yesterday to have similar aims. Negotiations for the settleent of one of the claims are ex icted to start shortly, it was arned. The 20th-Fox case was settled by -bitration, with President Spyros P. kouras serving as arbitrator at arry Brandt's request. obinson on IATSE Publicity Chicago — Jack Robinson has been med Chicago publicity director for ie IATSE convention at the Stevens otel. SEND BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO: June Morris G. Elmer Lux Barney Pitkin Blanche Carr John H June C. A. Schroth Ross Williams Scott Lett Joan Davis Ruth Warrick Cara Williams June B. Oliphant Herman Wobber Charles M 28 Leonard Fred W. Futter Louis King June Preisser arvey 29 Robert Frazer Harry Lachman Richard Batcheller Nelson Eddy Sally Weinstein E. A. Crady 30 George Chandler Leo Spitz Reagan ALONG The Motion Picture and Bikini • • • THE PARAMOUNT PLACE OF THE MOTION PICTURE in the communications scheme o' things never has been more sharply deiined than today as tens of million eyes turn, figuratively, in the direction of tiny Bikini in the mid-Pacific In a matter of some 40 hours from the time this communique is read in New York, "Operations Crossroad" finally will have reached the fateful "Mike Hour" of "Able Day" As you who have followed the graphic, colorful and highly informative exclusive daily columns of Jack Alicoate, THE FILM DAILY'S publisher-turned-reporter, on Page One of Your Favorite Industry Newspaper already know, the atomic bomb test on Sunday will be covered by upwards of 300 cameras, with the exposed footage estimated at more than 3,000,000 feet From this vast amount of film, the pooled effort of the five U. S. newsreels, the March of Time and the Army and Navy, the industry, with due regard for security editing, will draw for its awesome pictorial report, not to Americans alone, but all civilized mankind ▼ T T • • • THE IMPACT OF THAT FILM REPORT upon the untold millions who will see the effects of the unleashing of atomic force upon a mighty naval armament ■well may prove to be the Nth degree argument for world peace, not only in our time, but in the times of unborn generations "He that runs may read," with its implications, today is outdated He who sees-and-hears (and that today is globally possible only through the medium of the motion picture) comprehends the fullest Radio, of course, plays a major role Nor is television's part to be lightly dismissed Indeed, in some future day when television has solved such problems as world relays, it may rival, even eclipse the motion picture But as of this day and hour, it is the motion picture alone which is capable of bringing the dreadful fury of the atomic bomb within the optical and audio range of the individual who in the mass forms the nations of this "One World" T T T • • • THE HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY— as heavy a load indeed as perhaps has ever rested upon the shoulders of industry men — with which those who will edit and narrate the newsreels' Bikini -coverage is well underscored Theirs is the duty to so select and present that the obvious lesson, which is that mankind cannot afford the madness of a third — and atomic — World War, is deeply etched on the tablets of the human mind wherever the newsreels are exhibited In metropolitan New York, in tiny Brady, Tex In London and in Cardiff In Berlin and in Hamm In Paris and Nantes In Rome and in Genoa In Stalingrad and in Kiev And in Warsaw, Ankara, Bangkok, Riga, Tokyo, Bagdad, Sydney, Cairo, Prague, Chungking, Sofia, Belgrade and the countless other places on or off the maps in your office atlas Bearing in mind the while history's teaching that no place is too small for the incubation of conflict T T T • .'• • HAPPILY, AMERICAN NEWSREEL EDITORS have long been conscious of their responsibility One has but to reflect upon the brilliancy with which the newsreels have brought to the screen the Page One events of the war years to know that Meanwhile, on the threshhold of "Able Day," this thought borrowed from Eric Johnston "The world could afford disunity when its peoples were isolated economically and separated by physical barriers But precisely because the world is today physically and economically one, it must become socially and spiritually one or perish in an atomic explosion that will destroy civilization as we know it" — BAHN T T T ff DAY arn niTE HOUR (Continued from Page 1) bunk, and made a hole in one with a mop. We feel that once knowing the scent of green water, leaving the companionship, wit, brilliance, and co-operation of the officers of this ultra modern floating electronics miracle, will cause our life, at least temporarily, to be as dull as a Sunday morning commercial. And now, a well earned nod of appreciative understanding to our own gang of motion pictures, radio, and television. Without them, this adventure would be primarily something for the books. With them in the cast, it becomes the greateset show of all time. MPTOA Directors May Hold Chi. Meet (Continued from Page 1) have the statement prepared in "three or four weeks." Suggestions and views as to what the final decree should contain will be drafted by Levy, with emphasis against the licensing of pictures to the highest bidder. The September meeting also will decide whether the association should ask permission from the court to intervene as amicus curiae in the event the decision is appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court. The executive committee continued to interview prospective executive secretaries but no selection was made. Further interviews will be held within the next two weeks. Goldwyn Hosting RKOites At Sunday Baseball Party Samuel Goldwyn and James Mulvey, president of Samuel Goldwyn Prods., will be hosts at a big league baseball outing at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on Sunday, to honor delegates to RKO Radio's sales meeting opening at the Waldorf-Astoria Monday. In addition to the game, a buffet and cocktail party is being planned in the Ebbets Field Press Club. FAMOUS FIRSTS iii"» H§ I » *OF^< »»!#" 'l|""#'"lf""' TALKING FILMS CIRST sound-on-film shorts, made by Fox' Case Corp., were presented at the Sam Harris Theater, New York, on January 21, 1927, in connection with the showing of the silent picture, "What Price Glory?". Amplifiers, microphones and loud speakers used in recording and reproducing were supplied by Western Electric, which also licensed Warners' Vitaphone.