The Film Daily (1947)

ilonday, October 21, 1946 13^^ DAILY IMPE Opens Coast onvention Today finest Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — The scientific and tech|.cal brains of the motion picture idustry assembled here this morn;i.g for the opening of the first Pal^'viast convention of the Society K — ^ion Picture Engineers since 18 close of the war. The convention, which is the six€th semi-annual gathering of MPE and, according to William C. unzmann, convention vice-presiBnt, the richest and most varied in rogram material that the society as ever held, will open at 12.30 -clock this afternoon with a get-toether luncheon in the California oom of the Hollywood-Roosevelt ptel, convention headquarters. : Bryon Price, wartime chief of the government's censorship program .nd chairman of the board of the ssociation of Motion Picture Pro,:jcers as well as vice-president of 'le Motion Picture Association of merica, will be guest of honor and idncipal speaker at the luncheon, avid Street, Twentieth Century-Fox neing star, will be guest vocalist. : The ini^ial technical session, start;,.g at 2 o'clock, will feature a report ;.sf Lt. Col. Richard J. Cunningham, /'i.e., USAAF in the important role : motion pictures in the recent -omic bomb tests at Bikini, and a scussion of national and interna,;ional standardization programs of \[ie American Standards Associaon by J. W. McNair, of ASA. Other ,,apers at this session will deal with ?reen illumination, sound recording, i,)verwhelmino Oonosition o Auction in ATA Poll s (Continued from Page 1) Inning Sept. 15 and the final result? ■^present approvimately a 25 per I'ent return, indicating an aroused ;: pinion on the part of exhibitors [-•iroughout the country. i, A total of 3.878 cards were reiijrned with 3,689 approving and 189 [■isapproving ATA's action — 95 per Bnt for interventir'n and 5 ner cer + ijgainst, or approving "auction sell■•ig." l;' Of the 3,878 returned cards only p per cent were ATA member;. The jiiajority of ATA's members assumeri pat the action having been approved f^nd started there was no need for l,i€m to reply. The view of ATA's membership lus the expressed position of non lember exhibitors indicate that the nown opposition to "auction sell )!ig" would extend to at least 9,989 jieaters. ATA officials stated that the rejjrn of 3,878 cards out of the 16,000 jiailed is, in the opinion of promaent poll takers, an extraordinarily 'igh percentage of returns and indi;ates fever heat of interest in the ubject. 'ilmack Gets Fox Music , Filmack Trailers of Chicago has Jst signed a new contract with the ■am Fox Music Publishing Co. of lew York. Name Bennin Metro Mgr. Of St. Louis Exchange William F. Rodgers, vice-president and general sales manager for M-G-M, has announced the promotion of Herbert J. Bennin, who has been with the company in various capacities for the past 18% years, to 'he post of manager for the St. Louis branch. He succeeds J. Frank Willingham who has been given a leave of absence due to illness. Bennin started in 1928 as a pos':er clerk in the company's Chicago exchange and subsequently was promoted to short subjects booker and assistant cashier. In December, 1932, Bennin was transferred to the Milwaukee office as booker, this promotion being followed by another four years later when he was moved ':o the St. Louis branch as salesman. Tn 1943, he entered the service and in September 1944, was honorably discharged and returned to his St. Louis Tost as salesman. In June, this year, le was named acting branch manager ^or this exchange when Willingham lecame ill. He supervised operations if the St. Louis branch until his offinal appointment as branch manager. Process Rep. Trucolor On Safety Film Herbert J. Yates, president of Republic Pictures Corp., announces an additional appropriation of $1,600,000 for immediate laboratory expansion in Republic's Fort Lee, N. J., and Hollywood plants, to handle the printing of its perfected Trucolor process on a new type of safety film. The processing of all Trucolor prints on safety film is an important advance in Trucolor research, Yates stated, and will allow greater latitude in the handling and projection of Trucolor prints. Yates also reported that the Trucolor process is owned exclusively by Republic, and that patents have been applied for in all countries where American copyrights are recognized. He announced also that the increased laboratory facilities will permit expansion of Trucolor productions on Republic's 1946-47 program, with at least 18 features and six short subjects scheduled to be processed in the new Trucolor on safety film. and projection. Papers on tonight's program include "A Preliminary Report from the Academy Research Council SubCommittee on Blue-Sensitive Photocells" by L. T. Goldsmith, chairman, and "A Combination Scoring, Re-re cording, and Preview Studio" by D. J. Bloomberg and W. 0. Watson, of Republic Studios, and Michael Rettinger, of the Hollywood engineering staff of RCA Victor. Others present new color film techniques and special effects. NO^ ALAN CURTIS EVELYN ANKERS MICHELINE CHEIREL JACK HOLT INEZ COOPER V ~iXZMif ATOMIC ATOMIC lOVEf ATOMIC PLOT/ Distributed by SCREEN GUILD PRODUCTIONS