The Film Daily (1948)

Record Details:

Title:
The Film Daily
Date:
1948
Publisher:
Wid's Films and Film Folk, inc.
Volume:
The Film Daily (Jan-Mar 1948)
Leaf #:
00097
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
This leading industry publication, published out of New York, was founded in 1915 by Wid Gunning (who called his publication Wid's Daily until 1922). The Film Daily documented the rise of the Hollywood studios, the transition to sound, and the evolution of the American film industry (the paper finally shuttered in 1970). The Film Daily included feature reviews, news stories, and advertisements, but its extensive coverage of short films in the 1920s and 30s distinguished it from other trade papers of the period. -- Eric Hoyt, 2011/2013
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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:riday, January 16, 1948 "Jfe iHORT SUBJECT REVIEWS "Five Fathoms of Fun" >aramount 10 Mins. Highly Interesting Equipped with spears, oxygen aa?u~ and goggles, anglers are at by the camera swimming miu "schools of fish in the clear raters of the Florida Gulf. Grantand Rice narrates this Sportlight rhich is highly interesting and has ootage which is novel. it SERIAL * "All Gummed Up" "olumbia 18 Mins. Funny The Three Stooges are about to be dispossessed by their elderly land ord, so decide to use their drug store or a youth serum experiment. They E?st their concoction on the landlord's i:.-ife who then becomes young and eautiful. While celebrating: they se bubble gum instead of marsh lallows on a cake which gives vent o another funny sequence. Good tooge stuff. "Sunset in the Pacific" MV'arners 20 minutes Very Good Produced in co-operation with and hotographed by the United States ioast Guard, this film opens with livilian photographers before Pearl /arbor, and follow them during their /artime Coast Guard careers. Re alling many stirring war locales, in 'uding the signing of the peace :eaty, its beautiful Technicolor mds beauty to this memorial of oast Guard photographers. "Desert Destroyers" aramount 11 Mins. Good ; Four interesting subjects make up iiis Popular Science reel; shots of jie Navy's new rocket missile, the -•azy inventions of a grain broker •om Kansas, the latest innovation -.. ice cream freezers and an experij ental colony in Wales where oyster j.'opagation reigns supreme. Good ~4pneral theme to please most any adience. "Brick Bradford" Columbia 15 Chapters Should Build Audience Brick Bradford (Kane Richmond), soldier of fortune, and his friends are called upon to protect a fabulous anti-guided missile ray with a great potential for destruction. Sinister forces attempt to steal the ray from eccentric scientist, Dr. Tymak, who flees to the moon. Bradford and company follow and get involved in a revolution of the moon men. Additional episodes take them back to the 18th century via Tymack's Time Top and pit them against opponents whose death-dealing plots keep them hopping. Based on the King Features strip and Ace Comics Book feature, the serial has many exploitation gimmicks for showmen. It should build up a solid audience of fans who will be back for each episode. V-2 rocket, latest aeronautical puzzle, is pictured. Educational and extremely interesting plus A-l entertainment. "Switzerland Today" i|KO 18 Mins. Dramatic This Is America has penetrated the >vernment, boundaries, national aracter, culture, history and citins of Switzerland to compile an J curate and fascinating report of e country. Highly agricultural and ighly industrial, it is a nation of ntrasts and paradoxes. Dramatic id informative, most audiences ould go overboard for it. "The Super Salesman" Twentieth-Fox 7 Mins. Sure Laughs The talking magpies, Heckle and Jeckle, decide to sell their hair tonic in a park, to the consternation of the park caretaker. He calls in a bullish policeman to settle matters. As salesmen they are better entertainers. This one is really clever and is an excellent bet for sure laughs. "Laguna, USA" Columbia 9Vz Mins. Lots of Laughs The "Screen Snapshots" camera catches the Griffin Theater players rehearsing "Of Mice and Men" on the beach at Laguna. Eddie Bracken, Dane Clark, Lon Chaney, Brian Aherne, Barbara Reed and Marian Carr are pictured cavorting between scenes. Lots of laughs and some good names to sell it. t "Horizons of Tomorrow" entieth-Fox 8 Mins. A-l Entertainment Ed Thorgersen narrates this Mostone short which emphasizes the •al of engineering and science — to minate accidents from aviation. idar, one of the miracles of elecDnics developed during the war, is •••plained in relation to aircraft. A ljMS0 flight from Dayton to Washgton is recorded, and in closing, a "A Fight to the Finish" Twentieth-Fox 7 Mins. Good ' Oil Can Harry, has our heroine, | Pearl, tied to the railroad tracks j while Mighty Mouse tries in vain to save her. He finally succeeds and [ mops up Oil Can. Lots of action, mellerdrayma, and laughs. "Wedding Belle" Columbia 17 minute*. Very Funny Dick Lane enters he and his pal, Gu3 Schilling, into a comical train of events when his old girl friend arrives in town shortly after his marriage. Things really get complicated when they exchange identities. Has a number of very funny situation*. TRUE! UNBELIEVABLE! REMARKABLE! UNIMAGINABLE Ready Now for NATIONAL RELEASE thn, TiIih Classics, he.