Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1947)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1947
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000222
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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Motion Picture Daily Monday, February 3, 1947 AN OUTSTANDING EVENT! ASSOCIATED MOTION PICTURE ADVERTISERS LUNCHEON -MEETING TOWN HALL CLUB 123 WEST 43RD STREET THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 12:30 NOON — PROMPTLY — * Principal Speaker: CEORCE WEVER, Promotion Director, LIFE Magazine Topic: "NEW TRENDS IN MAGAZINE PROMOTION" — .* TERRY RAMSAYE, Official Industry Historian, Will Officiate at Ceremonies Commemorating the Thomas A. Edison Centennial MADELINE EDISON SLOANE, Daughter of the Great Inventor, will be Special Guest of Honor * ' Other Important Figures in the Publishing and Advertising Fields will grace the Dais. RUTGERS NEILSON, President, will preside PHIL WILLIAMS, Vice-President, Member-Guest Emcee LUNCHEON Members: $2.00 Guests: $2.50 N. B.: For Reservations Call A. DASH, FILM DAILY, BRyant 9-7117 Hits Bill Dropping School Show Taxes Eldora, Iowa, Feb. 2. — A bill to eliminate the Federal admisson tax on all school shows has been introduced in Congress by Rep. Henry O. Talle, it is disclosed by Leo F. Wolcott, board chairman of Allied of iowa-Nebraska, in a bulletin to the membership urging protests against the proposal. Wolcott calls the bill discriminatory. He states : "In view of the fact that schools have so completely commercialized their activities, games, film shows and the like, there is no valid reason why the public which patronizes these activities should not be required to' pay this tax the same as those who attend theatres." Omaha Companies In Fight Over Site Omaha, Feb. 2. — Four film firms here have protested the tentative selection of land which they occupy, as part of a site for a $3,500,000 city auditorium. An ordinance which provides for condemnation of the land and which would cut off westward development of Film Row now rests in the city council. The four who asked the council that they be heard include : Robert Ballantyne, owner of The Ballantyne Co.; J. M. McBride, Paramount; William Raapke, Metropolitan Scenic Studios; Frank Hannon, Warners. Webster Is Named Warner Manager Paul Webster, formerly of the Warner Brothers sales staff in Salt Lake City, has been promoted to branch manager in Des Moines by Ben Kalmenson, vice-president and general sales manager. Webster, who succeeds George Lefko, resigned, led the field in the salesman division of the 1946 Warner sales drive. Roy Haines, Western division sales manager for Warners, has arranged for the installation of the new Des Moines manager. Installs McClellan Hartford, Feb. 2. — Byron McClellan has been installed as president of local No. 439, IATSE, New London. Other installed officers : W. W. Lucas, vice-president; William F. Totten, recording secretary ; William A. Reed, financial secretary-treasurer ; Fred C. Nowell, business agent, and John S. Kane, Salvatore Patti and Irwin Dawley, board of trustees. /. Schlesinger, 80 I. Schlesinger, 80, father of Leonard S. Schlesinger, president and general manager of Warner Brothers Service Corp., died on Friday at his home in St. Louis and was buried in that city yesterday. The Warner executive will return to New York tomorrow after attending the funeral. Two other sons, Sidney and Joseph, also survive. Televise Edison Dinner The Thomas Edison centennial dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel here on Feb. 11 will be covered over National Broadcasting's television station WNBT at 9:15 P. M. SAG Asks AFL End Jurisdictional Rows Miami, Feb. 2— A wire from Robert Montgomery, Screen Actors Guild president, requesting the executive council of the American Federation of Labor to take action during its meeting here to prevent jurisdictional disputes among A. F. of L. unions, such as that which occasionecaBfite current Hollywood studio strikeJJBfs read to the assemblage here on Friday. Action on the request, which parallels another made by the Associated Actors & Artistes of America, is expected before the council adjourns. Gilbert Opens New Branch on Coast Marc Gilbert Film Co., distributor of American and foreign films, with headquarters here, has opened a branch in Los Angeles. The exchange will have state-rights on product in a territory covering 13 Western states and will book two first-runs in Los Angeles, two in San Francisco and five in other states on the Coast. Gilbert has also concluded negotiations to act as purchasing agent for the Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles and the Melvan, Hollywood. Scofield and Taylor Form Producing Firm Hollywood, Feb. 2. — Ed Scofield and Sam Taylor have formed ScofieldTaylor Productions, to produce under the trademark of Four Leaf Clover Pictures, with Bert Harrison as treasurer, Eugene H. Levy, secretary, and Bert Vine, director of press relations. "Las Vegas," the first picture, will start in April, with Arthur Treacher and others. Bain Joins Turner Chicago, Feb. 2. — Keith Bain, publicity man and band manager, who at one time managed Lawrence Welk's orchestra, has been added to Terry Turner's Midwest exploitation staff, and_ will be assigned a territory following his present "schooling" period under the tutelage of Bob Hickey and Bill Prager. RKO Screening Feb. 18 RKO Radio's "The Farmer's Daughter" will have a New York trade showing on Feb. 18 in the Normandie Theater. Dore Schary produced. Gauss to D. and C. Joseph T. Gauss, recently art director of Hazard Advertising Co., and formerly an art director of Lord and Thomas, has joined the Donahue and Coe agency here. Mr. Exhibitor: Investigate! Filmack's NEW Prevue Trailer Service before signing any trailer contracts. Write, wire ' or phone Filmack 1327 S. Wabash, Chicago 5, III. and receive full details.