Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

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4 Motion Picture Daily Thursday, October 13, 1949 WOK-TV Is 7th in NY on Set Schedule WOR-TV, Mutual Broadcasting, last night became the seventh and final television station authorized by the Federal Communications System for the New York Metropolitan area to go on the air with a regularly-scheduled program. WOR-TV will operate on Tuesdays through Saturdays, from seven to 11 P. M., with one-third of the 20-hour weekly program devoted to sporting events. It is the 84th station to begin regular video operations in the country. Review "Tokyo Joe" (S ant ana-Co lumbia ) HUMPHREY BOGART is back again in the type of snarling, two-fisted role that has won him wide appeal. "Tokyo Joe" finds him in occupied Japan where he is combatting an underworld effort to smuggle into the country members of the sinister Black Dragon Society. The purpose of Bogart's postwar return to Japan is to operate the Tokyo Joe cabaret which he ran before the war. Soon Bogart makes many discoveries, the chief of which is that his White Russian wife, believed dead, is actually alive and remarried. He determines to get her back, and thus the story develops a romantic triangle against its background of political intrigue. What occasionally is wanting in the picture, in the midst of its violence and excitement, is a feeling of conviction. Florence Marly supports Bogart in this Santana Production as his ex-wife, and Alexander Knox as her second husband who is a high occupation official. In the course of Bogart's trying to regain Miss Marly, he also learns he is the father of their daughter Lora Lee Michel. The loose-jointed screenplay by Cyril Hume and Bertram Millhauser has Bogart drawn into a deal to pilot into the country subversive plotters in order to protect his ex-wife from being exposed as one who had broadcast for the Japanese during the war. Bogart arranges with the U. S. Army to apprehend the agents he is to bring into the country, but as a safety measure, the plotters kidnap his child and hold her as a hostage. A ban°-up climax is reached when Bogart rescues the child. In so doing, however he °oes to a heroic death. Henry S. Kesler was associate producer and Robert Lord produced ; Stuart Heisler directed Running time 88 minutes. Adult audience classification. For November release & Mandel Herbstman SMPE Convention {Continued from page 1) dispensed with entirely. It is replaced by synthetic color-forming binders which combine in a single component the function of gelatin and colorcouplers in other processes. The speakers pointed out that release prints made with this stock can be developed from any type of color negatives and can be processed in any existing laboratory after minor modifications of equipment. Du Pont stock . and process are for printing only. At .the afternoon session Cinecolor vice-president Alan M. Gundelfinger ,f explained his company's new threecolor process revealed to the trade only last week, describing the means by which color films photographed in other than Cinecolor cameras can be processed by the Cinecolor laboratory. The first feature picture to be processed by Cinecolor in three colors is to be photographed by Ansco. Ansco's Adrian Messer preceded Gundelfinger on the program and demonstrated the process by which subjects photographed in 16mm Kodachrome are blown up to 35mm. color for commercial theatre use. Photography was the theme of today's sessions, with 12 papers on widely varying phases of the subject delivered. 'TV Theatre Chains In 5 Years: Baltin Atlantic City, Oct. 12. — Chains of television-equipped theatres will be in operation in this country in five years, Will Baltin, secretary-treasurer of the Television Broadcasters Association, of New York City, declared here. He further stated that color telecasting, with Coast-to-Coast network service, would also be in operation to service the motion picture houses, in addressing the New Jersey Council of Electrical Leagues. Smart showmen all say YOU HAVEN'T SEEN TRUE LIFE-LIKE PROJECTION UNTIL YOU SEE IT ON nu-screen corp. 1501 BROADWAY, N. Y. 18 . LOngacre 4-5885 Canadian Industry {Continued from page 1) man planning committees picked yesterday afternoon. The committee, with J. J. Fitzgibbons, president of Famous Players-Canadian, as chairman, set up the agenda for the convention, topics for discussion, committees, etc., in which some _ 40 key executives of Canadian exhibition, distribution, production and trade press will participate as both delegates and observers. Television, still to be implemented in Canada, will occupy a major portion of the discussion particularly as regards the respective roles of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board. Francis Harmon, in charge of exhibitor relations for the Motion Picture Association of America, addressed the meeting today. Another principal speaker was Robert Winters, Federal Minister of Reconstruction, of which the government's National Film Board is a branch. The planning committee discussed at length the status of the trzde press, and finally decided to invite the Canadian trade papers as delegates and the U. S. periodicals as observers. Members of the planning committee are, in addition to Fitzgibbons, A. J. Mason, of Nova Scotia Allied Exhibitors ; P. W. Mahon, Saskatchewan Exhibitors Association; J. Arthur Hirsch, Consolidated Theatres, Quebec ; Morris Stein, Famous Players ; Gordon Lightstone and Fred Dillon, Canadian Motion Picture Distributors ; H. C. D. Main, Simcoe, Ont. ; Jack Chisholm, production ; and Arch Jolley, secretary of the Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario. 'Intruder' World Premier Oxford, Miss., Oct. 12.— M-G-M's "Intruder in the Dust" opened at the Lyric here last night for its world premiere, attended by local celebrities, 34 editors and correspondents and a group from the M-G-M studio, among them Clarence Brown, producer-director ; and William Faulkner, author. ' 'Samson' Division {Continued from page 1) tomers," he said. "Each engagement on 'Samson' will represent a tremendous amount of specialized detail in handling, frorq the moment negotiations for a particular engagement are started, right through to the last day of the actual showing," added Youngstein. Set 'Samson' Meetings For Wilcoxon Here Henry Wilcoxon, "traveling public relations ambassador" for Cecil B. DeMille's "Samson and Delilah," today will begin the first of 25 New York meetings with public opinion leaders at the Hotel Pierre, Paramount has announced. He will speak to some 3.200 persons while in New York, his 15th key city to be covered on a tour which began in August and will continue until December, covering an additional 27 cities. Dollinger Reelected {Continued from page 1) yesterday to use their own judgment at the Minneapolis meeting should they be required to express Jersey Allied's position with reference to an all-industry public relations program. A number of other Jersey members are expected to accompany the delegates to the convention. Snaper reported at yesterday's meeting on last week's World Series large-screen television coverage at Fabian's Brooklyn Fox Theatre. Cinecolor Stock Rises Apparently reflecting interest in Cinecolor's newly-announced threecolor process, the price of the company's stock in the open market here has risen almost SO per cent. Quoted at the beginning of last week at 2Y%, the stock closed Tuesday night at 3%. Columbia Dividend Columbia Pictures' board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $1.06i4 per share on its $4.25 cumulative preferred stock, payable on Nov. 15, to stockholders of record, on Nov. 1. Zanuck's Salary Set At $260,000 Yearly Under the terms of his new 20year employment contract with 20th Century-Fox, production Head Darryl F. Zanuck will receive in salary $260,000 a year for the first 10 years and $150,000 a year for the second 10, it is understood. During the first 10 years he will continue in charge of production, while for the second 10 he will serve as a member of the board and in an advisory capacity. Loew's Pacts {Continued from page 1) a written notice of such termination." Employment would terminate six months after such notice. Mayer's new contract is for the period between Sept. 1, 1949, and Aug. 31, 1954, and provides for a fixed salary not in excess'of $300,000 per fiscal year, whether or not an employe's retirement pension is in effect. Additionally, Mayer is granted a maximum of $20,000 per year for expenses. Rubin's new pact is for the same period as Mayer's. And, like Mayer's agreement, it is in all respects subject to the approval of the stockholders at the next annual meeting, which, it is understood, will be held before Feb. 28, 1950. Rubin is vice-president and general counsel Additional provisions in Mayer's agreement are that he (1) shall be director of all studio activities, and (2) shall be elected first vice-president of Loew's. "In event of any dispute as to whether (the final industry anti-trust suit) decree requires divestiture of substantial properties or business, or as to whether the divestiture has been substantially completed at any given time," the executives' new agreements state, "the sound judgment of a majority of the board of directors of Loew's shall be conclusive." Kreisler Heads {Continued from page 1) veying film production in 17 European countries. During his trip he viewed 30 selected features of which perhaps eight will be considered by a reviewing board for I FA for distribution here. He also completed arrangements for the participation in IFA operations of 42 European film producers on a stockholder-franchise basis. Business representatives for the company were appointed in France and Italy and several others will be named subsequently. James Frank is vice-president of IFA, and Robert Davidson, attorney, is secretary.