The Film Daily (1918)

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7/eBftADSTREET of FILMDOH 7/fcRKOGHIZED Authority Vol. V, No. 103 Tuesday, August 20, 1918 Price 5 Cents War Taxes Refunded CENSORS RAISE ANOTHER QUESTION Australasian Films, Ltd., Receives Money From Manufacturers Australasian Films, Ltd., has received refunds of war taxes from several manufacturers. This money, known as the half-cent tax, was in reality a three-quarter-cent tax, onehalf cent for positives and one-quarter for all raw stock. Millard Johnson, president of the company, in discussing this latest development in the export situation, deemed it unwise for the present to disclose the names of the manufacturers who had refunded the taxes, but maintained that the case was important as an indication of the sentiment prevailing. Exporters have been confused on the subject of the war tax for some time and should be pleased to learn that manufacturers have come over to their point of view. Their doubt was due partly to the fact that a decision had been made by one in authority to the effect that the exporter must pay the tax. It is expected that other manufacturers will follow in the footsteps of those who repaid the taxes originally paid by Australasian Films. To Produce on Coast Lillian Walker productions Will Be Made at Brunton Plant Lester Park and his associates in the Lillian Walker Pictures Corporation have made a definite arrangement with the management of the Brunton studios at Los Angeles whereby they will make all of their future productions at that plant. The first of the Lillian Walker pictures has been finished and will be ready for showing next week. According to Mr. Park the company and the star, with Edward Dillon the director, will leave for the Coast, September 1, and the first of the pictures to be made there will be started September 15. The executive offices will also be moved to the Coast and E. Lanning Masters will remain in New York as representative of the company. Chicago Officials Want To View Films Already Passed by Committee on Public Information CHICAGO.— City officials have clashed with the Committee on Public Information again over the question of censoring official war films. Creel's committee contends that the war pictures have been sufficiently censored before they are offered for distribution in Chicago. The second deputy superintendent of police's office, which passes on all films exhibited in the city, maintains that under the ordinance all films must pass the censor board and asks the committee to be more "explicit" as to why they object to having the pictures O.K.'d by the local board. In an opinion written by Corporation Counsel Ettelson, he advises the city to have all films re-censored until more definite instructions are received from Washington. In a letter from Charles C. Hart, director of the Division of Films of the Committee on Public Information, he brings the matter to the attention of Acting Chief of Police Alcock as follows: "Inasmuch as the films are censored in France and also in Washington by the Federal board of censors and also by members of the War college, there does not seem to be any reason why they should be recensored by other boards. We would appreciate an expression from you in regard to this matter before going any further." Attorney Ettels-n's reply to the Chief of Police says: "By the terms of the city ordinance no motion picture can be exhibited in the city without having first been censored. Of course, we recognize that in matters pertaining to the conduct of the war the authority of the United States government is superior to the city government and it is our opinion the government has the power, if it desires, to exercise the same, upon films used as an aid in the prosecution of the war." Mr. Ettelson. though, questions whether Mr. Hart is authorized to speak for the U. S. Government on this subject and ca1ls attention to the fact that the pictures known as the "official war review" have been submitted for censorship here by a private motion picture concern. "In these circumstances," the attorney states, "it seems you have no choice but to require such pictures to be censored under the ordinance." Removing Obstacles Rembusch and Schaefer Confer on Uniting Exhibitors' Organizations CHICAGO.— Frank J. Rembusch, secretary of the American Exhibitors' Association, and Peter J. Schaefer, newly elected president of the M. P. E. L. of A., held a long conference last week relative to an amalgamation of the two bodies at the coming convention of the A. E. A., to be held in Chicago, Sept. 3-7. At the conclusion of the meeting Mr. Schaefer stated that he would make every effort to bring the two exhibitors' bodie3 together. The only thing that stands in the way of a reunion as far as he could see was the constitution of the old league. This he said could easily be remedied. Plans for the A. E. A. convention are progressing rapidly and a record attendance is expected. It is hoped to have President Wilson, who expects to be in Chicago on Labor Day, address the members of the Association on the opening day. Frank Rembusch and Louis Frank left Chicago Sunday for New York city to arrange for the presence of several independent stars and to confer with heads of the producing concerns about having their players attend. "Shorty" Hamilton Territory Crandall and Morgan of the Exhibitor's Film Corp. at Washington, D. C, have bought the state rights to the "Shorty" Hamilton feature made bv the W. H. Clifford Company for Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and the District of Columbia.