Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1945)

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Title:: Motion Picture Daily
Date:: Jan-Mar 1945
Publisher:: New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:: Motion picture daily
Leaf #:: 000675
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:: November 03, 2022

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Monday, March 26, 1945 Motion Picture Daily 11 Pinanski Sets Four 7th War Loan Aides {Continued from page 1) . mittee made up of theatre operators brought in from the field for this specific purpose. Joseph Kinsky will serve as chairman of the coordinating committee and will be in direct charge of the East. Kinsky is a Paramount theatre department executive, and was national coordinator during the Fifth War Loan. Wilby-Kincey Theatres has loaned E. W. (Gene) Street of Knoxville to act as coordinator for the South. Street served as exhibitor state chairman for Eastern Tennessee in both the Fifth and Sixth War Loans. David B. Wallerstein, theatre executive has been loaned by B. and K. Theatres to be coordinator for the Midwest. Wallerstein has been active in the field in his territory in all War Loan drives and other war activities. Charles M. Thall, executive of Fox West Coast Theatres in Northern California, has been loaned by Charles Skouras, president of National Theatres, to act as coordinator for the West Coast. Thall was Northern California exhibitor state chairman in the Fifth War Loan. He will leave today from San Francisco to assume his new duties at Seventh War Loan headquarters in New York. Pinanski stated that it is the national committee's intention to maintain liaison at all times between Seventh War Loan headquarters in New York and state committees. 'Red' Barber Calls For Red Cross Aid 'Red' Barber, sportscaster, now handling the American Red Cross 1945 War Fund drive in the Greater New York area, on Saturday, requested Motion Picture Daily and other trade and news publications to direct special Red Cross campaign appeals for the rest of the month specifically to individuals who have not yet contributed to the fund this year. Griesdorf Made Odeon West Division Head Toronto, March 25. — Dave Griesdorf, British Columbia supervisor of the Odeon circuit, has been appointed Western division general manager, with offices on the West Coast, where Odeon has 33 theatres, it is learned here. C. J. Appel has been named Eastern manager, as reported Friday in Motion Picture Daily. Ansco Buys Building For Film Processing The Ansco division of General Aniline and Film Corp. has purchased a building in Chicago for processing 16 mm motion picture film, George W. Burpee, president, announces. Reason behind the purchase is to take care of an expansion of the company's activities in the Mid-West. Industry Pre-Trial Conference Today (Continued from page 1) he would rule against the Government, if an immediate decision was forced on him. It is deemed unlikely by attorneys, that the court will grant the injunction now, with a definite trial date of Oct. 8 already set. At the conference today an attempt will also be made to settle on the issues to be tried and to agree, if possible, on some of the issues. The court requested this procedure so that a time limit could be placed on the case. It has been estimated that the trial could drag on for from a year to 18 months before all testimony is in. The two main issues at stake, on which there can apparently be no agreement, are demands by the Department of Justice for an end to clearance and a divorcement of theatres by producer-distributors. Nickerson Setting Griffith Details Robert E. Nickerson of the law firm of Dwight, Harris, Koegel and Caskey, counsel for 20th Century-Fox, left New York last night for "Oklahoma City, where he will spend several weeks in preparation for the Griffith trial, which is scheduled to get underway May 7. Nickerson is representing the five consent decree distributors and he will cooperate with Griffith attorneys and the Government in setting trial procedure. Golden Will Release Next Through UA {Continued from page 1) Hollywood," featuring Tom Breneman, radio star. Breneman will return to Hollywood this morning from a Red Cross tour of the Midwest to open the restaurant from which his "Breakfast in Hollywood" broadcast will originate. Earl Baldwin will write the screenplay and production is scheduled to start July 1. . Edward and Robert Golden produced "Hitler's Children" and "The Master Race," released through RKO Radio, while Dembow was formerly a Paramount vice-president. Officers of the new company are : Dembow, president ; Edward Golden, chairman of the board, Robert Golden, vicepresident in charge of production. New Music Hall Record Radio City Music Hall had its biggest opening day last Thursday when "Without Love" and the theatre's Easter stage show drew 23,930 patrons who paid $17,856. Previous opening day attendance record was 20,930. Bond Here on New Unit Anson Bond, who with Leslie Charteris has organized the Bond-Charteris Co., Hollywood, for the production of shorts for television and the production of motion pictures of "The Saint," arrived in New York on Saturday to complete various arrangements of the firm's business. In Lavish hn/color! Another Glorious U.A. Hit!