Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1942)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1942
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000327
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
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:
A New York-based daily trade paper published by Martin Quigley. The companion to Quigley's better known weekly publication, MOTION PICTURE HERALD, and a direct competitor to THE FILM DAILY, which was also published out of New York. Established in 1930, MOTION PICTURE DAILY enjoyed a circulation of roughly 5,000 readers most years of its four decades in print (a nearly identical circulation to THE FILM DAILY, but only one third of the readership of MOTION PICTURE HERALD, which reached a wider audience of exhibitors). In the 1930s, the MOTION PICTURE DAILY's editor, Maurice Kann, called on the movie industry to shift more production back to the East Coast. Any productions that filmed in New York received ample attention. New York City never regained its production lead over Hollywood, but the major studios used the Big Apple for their corporate and distribution headquarters. As a result, MOTION PICTURE DAILY tended to focus on economic and regulatory issues confronting the film industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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Alert. to the Tyrojtion Picture Industry MOTION PICTURE DAILY L. 51. NO. 40 NEW YORK, U.S.A., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1942 TFN CENTS Estimate Para. 1941 Earnings $10,125,000 Compares with $7,633,130 For Year Before Net earnings of $10,125,000 for 1941 after interest and all charges including reserves and provision for all Federal taxes were estimated yesterday by Paramount P i c tures. Inc., of which Barney B a 1 a b a n is president. This estimate compares with net profit of $7,633,130 for 1940. The earnings estimated for the year approximate an estimate reported b| Motion Picture Daily on Feb. 12. Estimated earnings for the final 1°41 quarter were $2,675,000, com (Continued on page 5) Barnej Balaban 20th-Fox Meeting Opens Tomorrow A three-day meeting of 20th Century-Fox home office executives, district and branch managers from all over the country will be held at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, starting tomorrow, Tom J. Connors, personal assistant to Sidney R. Kent, president, announced yesterday. Kent will address the meeting on Monday. Connors and Herman WobJber, general manager of distribution, Jat other sessions will discuss the company^ forthcoming product in the (Continued on page 2) Test Complaints Cite Use of Double Bills Test complaints to determine whether under the consent decree's arbitration rules theatres which do not double feature or resort to bargain nights should have clearance over theatres which do have been filed at :l e Cincinnati arbitration board. Willis Vance, operator of the 20th Century. Ohio, Eden and State in the (Continued on page 5) Academy Winners Hollywood, Feb. 26. — Winners of the awards announced tonight at the annual dinner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences follow : Most outstanding picture of the vear — "How Green Was My Valley," 20th Century-Fox. Thalberg Memorial Award for consistent high quality production achievement — Walt Disney. Best performance by an actor — Gary Cooper in "Sergeant York," Warner Bros. Best performance by an actress — Joan Fontaine in "Suspicion," RKO. Best performance by an actor in a supporting role — Donald Crisp in "How Green Was My Valley," 20th Century-Fox. Best performance by an actress in a supporting role — Mary Astor in "The Great Lie," Warner Bros. Best achievement in directing — John Ford for "How Green Was My Valley," 20th Century-Fox. Best written screenplay — Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller for "Here Comes Mr. Jordan," Columbia. Best original screenplay — Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles for "Citizen Kane," Mercury-RKO. Best original motion picture story — Harry Segall for "Here Comes Mr. Jordan," Columbia. Best achievements in art direction: Black-and-white films — Richard Day, Nathan Juran for "How Green Was My Valley," 20th Century-Fox. Color films — Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary for "Blossoms in the Dust," M-G-M. Best achievements in einematography : Black-and-white — Arthur Miller for "How Green Was My Valley," 20th Century-Fox. Color — Ernest Palmer, Rav Rennahan for "Blood and Sand," 20th Century-Fox. Best achievement in sound recording — Jack Whitney of General Service Studios for "That Hamilton Woman," Alexander Korda — United Artists. Short subjects — Cartoons, "Lend a Paw," Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse series); one-reel, "Of Pups and Puzzles," M-G-M; two-reel, "Main Street on the March," M-G-M. Best achievement in film editing — William Holmes for "Sergeant York," Warner Bros. Best achievement in special effects — "I Wanted Wings," Paramount; Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, photographic; Louis Mesenkop, sound. Best achievements in music: Scoring of a musical picture — Frank Churchill, Oliver Wallace for "Dumbo," Disney-RKO. Scoring of a dramatic picture — Bernard Herrmann for "All That Money Can Buy," Dieterle-RKO; score composed and conducted by Herrmann. Best song — "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from "Lady Be Good," M-G-M; music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Documentary motion pictures — two-reelers, "Churchill's Island," Canadian Film Board, United Artists distribution; features, "Kukan," Reynold Scott (Adventure Films) and "Target for Tonight," British Information Library, Warner Bros, distribution. Interior decoration — black-and-white,Thomas Little for "How Green Was My Valley," 20th Centurv-Fox; color, Edwin B. Willis for "Blossoms in the Dust," M-G-M. Special awards: Outstanding use of sound as exemplified in "Fantasia," Walt Disney, William Garrity, John A. Hawkins and RCA Manufacturing Co.; unique creation of visualized music widening the scope of motion pictures, Leopold Stokowski and associates. Willkie Cites Films' Part in Nation's Fight Lauds Defense of Rights In Senate Inquiry Hollywood, Feb. 26. — Had the freedom of the screen been suppressed as a result of the Senate sub committee investigation of alleged film propaganda last Fall, Wendell L. Willkie said tonight in addressing the annual awards dinner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Biltmore Hotel, it would have meant the establishment "of a kind of Governmental suppression and autocracy which we are now opposing throughout the world." Willkie praised the industry for fighting for its rights at the Senate sub-committee hearings and, turning (Continued on page 5) Wendell Willkie Wanger Pledges All-Out War Aid Hollywood, Feb. 26. — Walter Wanger, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, dedicated the full personnel and resources of the production industry to "the country whose freedom and whose collective vision made our progress possible," in his address opening the annual Academy Awards banquet at the Biltmore Hotel here tonight. Stressing the fact that this is a time of stern reality, Wanger declared that this is no time for recrimination but it is a time for "complete mobilization of our enormous resources." He continued, "It is not only our obligation, it is our duty to harness all this talent, adjust it to new horizons and a new point of view." He called for complete unity of purpose. He emphasized the importance today (Continued on page 5)