Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1950)

2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, April 28, 1 Personal Mention ROBERT M. WEITMAN, United Paramount Theatres vice-president, will leave here today for Chicago. • Dorothy Block, secretary to I. F. Dolid. Warner home office executive, is leaving the company after 20 years service, to assume household duties. • Oscar Morgan, Paramount short subject sales manager, left here yesterday for Washington. • Thomas J. Hargrave, EastmanKodak president, and Mrs. Hargrave will sail from here tonight for Europe on the ^'.5'. Queen Elizabeth. • Sam Galanty, Columbia Mid-East division manager, is in Pittsburgh. Projectors Take SMPTE Spotlight Chicago, April 27. — Advances in theatre projection and screen lighting equipment including descriptions of the new RCA 100 and the Simplex projector mechanisms featured today's sessions of the 67th semi-annual Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers meeting at the Drake Hotel, which ends tomorrow. A new differential carbon feed system for projection arc lamps designed to answer a challenge presented by the increasing use of larger motion picture screens and a demand for higher picture brilliancies was described at the same session by Arthur J. Hatch of the Strong Electric Corp. Other papers included reports by J. W. McNair, American Standards Association, on the work of the ASA committees concerned with standardization in photography and motion pictures and a discussion by Tom Miller of Eastman-Kodak on lighting factors which must be understood and considered for the best results in color photography. Show Magnetic Recorder Chicago, April 27. — A complete portable magnetic film recording system is being demonstrated by Westrex Corp. at the SMPTE convention here. In attendance are company representatives J. G. Frayne, G. R. Crane of Hollvwood, and R. O. Strock, New York. Giffin, TO A Director, Dies in Oklahoma Miami, Okla., April 27. — Funeral services were held here today for John Giffin. a director of the Theatre Owners of America and board chairman of the Theatre Owners of Oklahoma, a TOA regional. Additionally, he was general manager of the Coleman Theatre here. Giffin suffered a stroke last Thursday and succumbed here on Tuesday. A widower, he leaves a brother and a sister, both of California. Phonevision Outmoded by Skiatron System: Levey Arthur Levey, president of Skiatron Corp., asserted here yesterday that his company has developed an instrument that can perform the same function as Phonevision without using the telephone equipment that is necessary to the operation of the latter. Both are intended to bring motion pictures into homes over television on a payas-you-go basis. Explaining that the Skiatron development is an attachment which will permit radio waves to perform the same as telephone cables in the case of Phonevision, Levey said a pilot model of the instrument will be demonstrated shortly. It has been patented as "SubscriberVision,", he added. Levey said Subscriber-Vision is "the answer to the objections to Phonevision." In effect, he claimed, Subscriber-Vision is Phonevision by radio instead of telephone, and at less expense. Skiatron's stock issue has "comfortably exceeded the minimum requirements within the period stipulated in the offering," Levey reported to company stockholders at a meeting here on Wednesday. He told the stockholders that negotiations are in progress with "three large corporations" for the completion of improved demonstration models of the Supersonic large-screen video projector. He claimed that the projectors can be produced at "substantially lower cost than competitive cathode ray models." NYU Gets 'Hamlet9 Print from Rank A print of "Hamlet" was presented vesterday to the New York University Library of Motion Picture Classics by British producer J. Arthur Rank. Dean Thomas Clark Pollock presided at the presentation reception for Rank at the University Faculty Club here. Others in attendance were Motion Picture Association of America president Eric A. Johnston, American Rank Organization president Robert S. Benjamin, and Universal-International president N. J. Blumberg. 'Holiday' to Aid Benefit A private screening" of the Alcorn production, "Johnny Holiday," will be held tonight at Toot Shor's here. Premiere of the film, a United Artists release, is scheduled for May 15 at the Mayfair Theatre, with proceeds going to the National Cartoonists Society's "Somebody Cares," a fund to rehabilitate delinquent children. Argentine Deal (Continued from page 1) would be signed and made public over the weekend. Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, will sign for the American producers and Argentine Finance Minister Ramon Cereijo for Argentina. Johnston and Cereijo have been heading the negotiating teams in the intensive bargaining sessions of the last few days. Phonevision Up at K.C. Allied Meeting Kansas City, April 27. — A film report on, and discussion of Phonevision will be a feature of the allindustry luncheon hereon May 10, to be held in conjunction with the drive-in theatre equipment show and the annual spring convention of Allied Independent Theatre Owners of Kansas and Missouri at the Phillips Hotel. Both Abram Myers, general counsel for Allied States, and Trueman Rembusch, president, will be here to conduct open forums at the local theatre unit's sessions. McWilliams, Hadley Elected by AMP A Blanche Livingston of RKO Radio having declined the nomination for vice-president of the Associated Motion Picture Advertisers, the organization yesterday elected Hap Hadley to that office, and, as expected, Harry McWilliams was elected president, succeeding Max E. Youngstein. Others elected at the annual luncheon-meeting held here were : Treasurer, Lige Brien, who succeeds the late Harry N. Blair ; secretary, Marjorie Harker ; directors, Youngstein, Charles Alicoate, Gordon White, Vincent Trotta, Evelyn Koleman, David Bader and the four newly-elected officers ; trustees, Chester Friedman, Jacques Kopfstein and Rutgers Neilson. Griffith Brief (Continued from page 1) greatly changed since the suit was first filed in 1939. Video Independent Theatres now operates many of the houses owned by Griffith. Griffith Consolidated Theatres, Inc., one of the original defendant concerns, should divest itself of interest in the Royal Theatre at Enid, the brief admits. The theatre is held jointly with Roy T. Shield. Either Consolidated or Shield should henceforth operate another Enid theatre now held jointly, the brief adds. The brief said competition of the circuit held favored position in many cities by virtue of prior relations with distributors. The regular customer position, whether occupied by a defendant or a defendant's competitor, resulted from "common sense business recognition of established business relations between the various major distributors and their respective customers," it said. The brief argued against a government proposal that Theatre Enterprises, Inc., be made a party to the suit. Sale of R. E. Griffith Theatres, Inc., to Theatre Enterprises was "not a conspiracy to violate the Sherman Act," it declared. R. E. Griffith Theatres was one of the four original defendant concerns. Rank in Tentative Co-production Deals Asked whether he had con-» summated any co-production deals during his recent visit to Hollywood, J. Arthur Rank said here yesterday that he] had made arrangements t'mre. j for such deals pend/ale" .h< finding of the "th^T , ight stories." He declined to identify the Hollywood producers with whom the tentative arrangements have been made. Rank will leave here today for England aboard the S. S. Queen Elizabeth following a five-week visit in the U. S. 1st of 2 Columhi Meetings on Mond* Columbia home office executi1] sales personnel and department he : will leave here for Chicago on Si day to attend the first of the cf pany's two sales conventions, begj ning Monday, at the Drake Ho: The meeting will run for four d| and all of the sessions will be un the chairmanship of A. Montagj general sales manager. 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