The Film Daily (1929)

Paramount Plans Production of Wide Films THE fe NEWSPAPER ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME IL. XLIX No. 16 Friday, July 19, 1929 Price 5 Cents Wide Film rHE further development of motion pictures is crystallized in impressive and sev league strides. Sound is being ined and the limitations forced on producers by delicate microones broken down. The next ps, variously placed as color first d wide films secondly, now look if they would move along in ison. All producers have annexed lor ; the new season's product 11 demonstrate how completely. »w Paramount broadcasts to an ^rested industry that Magnafilm, ! wide picture process, is ready d plans for its application forllating. Close-ups Unnecessary 'iffy-five millimeters wide as inst the present day standard of ty-five. An image forty feet in length by twenty in the width as jinst the approximate seventeen by teen feet pictures now current on iter screens. In other words, a lire that can be increased or deUsed to fit into proscenium areas the individual theater dictates, se-ups become unnecessary. The en takes on a wider sweep and espondingly broadens its potenties. Paramount demonstrated rimental pictures yesterday ch proved this. For dance enables where effects may be heightd and for mass compositions, ||e film will bring something to (iuction which today's limitations ' e impossible. Then There Is Color jnagine, if you can, this new jn screen with color as an addilal embellishment. The combi on will then embrace music, flesh blood tints and a new pictorial Drama. What an advance over silent picture! his evolutionary and certainly qilutionary step, is coming. The njistry will go for it because it is hi progressive thing to do. The t ic, now getting more value for b.1. quarters and half dollars it deiCJts at the box-office than for like us expended anywhere else, will on benefit and the industry with t irough that public's support. KANN ,; Passes Restful Night By CHARLES F. HYNES Mineola, L. I. (Friday) — William Fox is recovering so rapidly that a second blood transfusion will not be necessary, physicians attending him have decided. X-rays are to be examined this morning. FOX RECOVERY WILL BE RAPID, DOCTOR BELIEVES By CHARLES F. HYNES Mineola, L. I. (Friday) — Recovery of William Fox now is but a matter of a short time, it is stated from the office of Dr. Wilford M. Post, physician who has been in attendance on the film executive since the automobile accident in which Fox was injured on Wednesday. Speakng for Dr. Post, a nurse in attendance stated: "Mr. Fox is getting along nicely and is responding splendidly to treatment. Asked whether his recovery would be retracted, or vyhether there is danger of complications, she replied: "Mr. Fox has been seriously injured and has lost a considerable quantity of blood. However, he is expected to be out again in a comparatively short time." Fox Will Leave Hospital by Monday, Says Grainger "Mr. Fox's condition is very satisfactory, so much so 'in fact that it is expected he will leave the Nassau Hospital in a few days, not later than Monday," declared James R. Grainger, general sales manager of Fox Film, last night. He declared no anxiety existed over Fox's condition, which he said was principally one of shock and bruises. WARNERS ENTER SUPPLY BUSINESS ON SEPT. 1 R-K-O-PANTAGES DEAL FOR SIX HOUSES ONLY Deal of Radio-Keith-Orpheum with Pantages has narrowed down to six houses with expectation of developments within a few days, according to B. B. Kahane, secretary and treasurer of R-K-O. Houses involved are at San Francisco, San Diego, Salt Lake City, Portland, Tacoma and Spokane. Pantages is to retain his houses at Seattle, Fresno, Los Angeles and Hollywood. The latter, now under construction, never was included in the proposed deal, which formerly embraced 14 houses. Educational to Make Talkers Only Next Year Educational now is winding up its program of silent shorts, following which the company will release sound shorts only. Two more silents remain to be made, it is understood, and will be released during August. The company has a program of 76 talker shorts scheduled for the 192930 season. 1 to 1 Quota on Talkers Declared Germany's Plan Berlin— Germany is reported planning to place American talkers on a 1 to 1 quota basis, it is understood here. This would result in forcing American firms out of the German market, it is believed. Paramount Ready to Produce Wide Pictures via Magnafilm Paramount Has 4 Omaha First Runs by New Deal Omaha — Paramount will operate four first run houses here, as a result of the deal with World Realty for acquisition of the Sun and World. Paramount for some time has operated the Paramount, formerly the {Continued on Page 3) Paramount is shaping plans for production of wide films by its own process known as Paramount Magnafilm. One picture, a four-reeler called "You're in the Army Now was demonstrated yesterday at the Rivoli in New York at which time a picture 40 ft. wide and 20 ft. high as against the present standard of (Continued on Page 3) Continental Accessories to Handle All Kinds of Theater Equipment Warners plan to enter the equipment field on a national scale via Continental Theaters Accessories, Inc. which starts operations Sept. 1, with Harold Rodner as president. A general line of equipment and accessories will be handled, according to plans. The new company will start functioning in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Los Angeles, with other branches to be opened as rapidly as deemed advisable. The New York headquarters will be located in the new First National building, which is (Continued on Page 3) u. a. sellsTexchanges IN FARM TO M-G-M United Artists has sold its offices in Japan, Java and Straits Settlements to M-G-M. The latter, under the deal, will sell U. A. in those territories. For some time, United Artists has been handling distribution for M-G-M in these Far Eastern countries. Included are branches in Tokyo, (Continued on Page 3) Deal Closed for Sale of Cinephone Device in U. K. Powers Cinephone Equipment Syndicate, Ltd., of London, has acquired franchise for sale of Powers Cinephone equipment in the United Kingdom, states P. A. Powers. A number of contracts for installations have been made, Powers states. Solution to Sound Ills Sought by Jersey Unit Atlantic City— New Jersey exhibitors today will seek to map a plan which will relieve the situation of independent theater owners of the state, 20 per cent of whom President Joseph M. Seider declares have been forced to close within the last four weeks. Seriousness of the situation (Continued on Page 3)