Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1948)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Apr-Jun 1948
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00018
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:
May 30, 2024
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2 Motion Picture daily Friday, April 2, 1948 Personal Mention EDWIN W. AARON, M-G-M sales executive, will return to New York from the Coast on Monday . . . Harold Postman, also an M-G-M distribution executive will return to New York at the weekend from Cincinnati and Indianapolis . . . Sid Blumenstock, 20th-Fox assistant exploitation director, is in Lancaster. . . . George Stevens, RKO Radio proffer, has arrived in Hollywood from New York. . .Harry Warner, Warner president, is in New York from the Coast. MAX YOUNGSTEIN, Eagle-Lion advertising-publicity head, who celebrated a birthday last Monday, has been elected to the New York Academy of Sciences . . . Carl Dreyer, European director, is due here today on the SS Falsi rig for his first visit to the U. S. . . . William B. Levy, Walt Disney Productions' world-wide sales supervisor, will sail for Europe from New York today . . . Nate J. Blumberg, UniversalInternational president, is due back in New York April 15 from the Coast. Fabian Heads U.J. A. Drive Si Fabian has been appointed chairman of the amusement division for the Greater New York United Jewish Appeal by Barney Balaban, national amusement division chairman. Fabian, will be host at a luncheon at the Hotel Astor here next Thursday for the chairman' s committee composed of industry leaders to organize the drive in this area. Max Cohen Cancer Chairman Max A. Cohen, president of Cinema Circuit, has been named chairman cf the motion picture division of the 1948 campaign of the New York City Cancer Committee. DeMille to House Labor Group WASHINGTON, April 1-Cecil B. DeMille will arrive here April 5 and will ap pear before the House Labor Committee on April 7. Later tend the annual Gridiron Biechele Theatre Ceiling Falls KANSAS CITY, April 1 Some 30 patrons were struck by falling particles when a portion of R R. Biechele's will Relations he will at Dinner here. Osage Theatre perfo rmance. s ceiling fell during a CBS Seeks Reel for Video Columbia Broadcasting expects to have a fivetimes-weekly newsreel on its television network by May 1, William S. Paley, CBS board chairman, disci osed yesterday . While confirming reports that he had been negotiating with United World Films, Universal subsidiary , for rights to the Universal newsreel, he said he doubts if any deal will be reached, and added that CBS ir ^ also conducting talks with other newsk reel outfits, but he declined to name them. "U" News Explores Video Field James Franey, United World Films president , indicated here yesterday that he has been holding informal talks with Columbia Broadcasting officials and others for rights to Universalis newsreel in video broadcasts .He intimated, however, that nothing concrete has emerged Jrom the talks. "Arch" Premiere U.N.Aid With tickets priced at $10 and $5, a premiere of Enterprise ' s "Arch of Triumph" will be held Monday evening, April 19, at the Globe Theatre here, for the beneift of the American Overseas Aid-United Nations Appeal for Children, Spyros P. Skouras is general chairman* F.C. & B. on Goldwyn Account :" Foote, Cone and Belaing has again become the advertising agency for Samuel Goldwyn Productions, replacing Donahue and Coe, Inc. , resigned last week. NEW YORK THEATRES ■p-RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center IRENE DUNNE In GEORGC STEVENS' Prod, of "I REMEMBER MAMA" Barbara Oscar Philip BEL GEDDES HOMOLKA OORN Produced by HARRIET PARSONS Music Hall's Great Easter Stage Show LADD as VERONICA LAKE 8* ■ '..:.* •" .-J,.\::-. . : j Robert Maureen Clifton YOUNG* O'HARA* WEBB f SITTING PRETTY SOLLCSSER pr...ntt IDEM RICE BURROUGHS' Hi A 20th Century-fox Picture PIUS ON STAGE— ART MOONEY • BETTY BRUCEC Roxy Extra! AL BERNIE I JOHNNY WEISSMUI1ER-BRENDA JOYCE 'W end introducing IMA ONBTIM ▼ 7th Ave. & 50th St. :PA£AC£X OOMS OHM I ft. it miomite snow war Sunday^ and hoffi P b v (WlU VnhL^r7' ^V1"-0]1^ a£d t.Pu4bhsh": Sherwin Kane, Editor; Martin Quigley, Jr., Associate Editor. Published daily, except Saturdays, NeVYrnk" ^MarttacSu&H V^^% fv°mpa^-' :HC-' .^^ S'xth Avenue Rockefeller Center, New York 20, N. Y. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address: "Quigpubco James f F ^ Cunningham New, mSbIS ^IT^ M™'n Q"^.^ Vice-President; Theo J. Sullivan, Vice-President and Treasurer; Leo J. Brady, Secretary iEdTtorChicaeo Bureau Wu K V't M^fr Manager: Dav.d Harris, C.rculation Director; Hollywood Bureau, Yucca-Vine Building, William R. Weaver D C London Bureau 4 r^Hm 'S n T IS wl on?. an<^ Advertising. Urben Farley, Advertising Representative, Washington, J. A. Otten, National Press Club, Washington ). C. London Bureau. 4 Golden Sq., London Wl. Hope Burnup, Manager, Peter Burnup, Editor; cable address, "Quigpubco, London." Other Quigley Publications: Motion Picture & \ T Z *a 3 fu ctlon ofMot'on P'cture Herald; International Motion Picture Almanac, Fame. Entered as second class matter, Sept. York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year, $6 in the Americas and $12 foreign; single copies, 10c. Herald, Better Theatres, published every 23, 1938, at the post office at New York,