Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1950)

fVLE ^C's O JN QJ gFM ov i FIRS"% IN Q> «. FIL, 1— NEW PICTURE NO. 94 NEW YORK, U.S.A., TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1950 TEN CENTS DmpoRenews ight for ax Abolition ters Calls Meet Here; Concentrate on Senate ashington, May 15. — Plans for tivation of the industry's camn for complete abolition of the ier cent Federal admission tax be discussed at a meeting of the icil of Motion Picture Organizas tax committee at the Hotel Asm New York Wednesday morn lis was revealed by committee rman Abram F. Myers, who said :ommittee had been given a manby the recent COMPO Chicago ing and that the Wednesday date the "only time in the near future :an get even half the committee per." esumably the group will agree there is no longer much point in king the House Ways and Means (Continued on page 4) OMPO Gets .Y. Charter e Council of Motion Picture Orations is now a legal reality, itification that COMPO's certifiof incorporation has been filed r the laws of the State of New : was verified from Albany in a received yesterday by Sidney eiber, Motion Picture Association merica's attorney, who was called by COMPO to prepare and it the certificate, e certificate was approved by (Continued on page 4) issours Sell Studio, urease Production >llywood, May 15. — Nassour Stubuilt and operated by Edward William Nassour, will pass into possession of the Los Angeles \?-owned television station KTTV n a few days, Edward Nassour rmed today in a deal involving a (Continued on page 4) TV and Theatres Will Go Hand-in-Hand: Wolfson MGM Setting Heavy Production Program Reflecting full confidence for future operations, Dore Schary, M-G-M vice-president in charge of production, is expected to announce the company's most ambitious production program in recent years when he appears before the M-G-M "Say It with Pictures" (Continued on page 2) Television and the motion picture theatre will complement one another in due time rather than stand as antagonists in the competition for the amusement dollar, according to Mitchell Wolfson, chairman of the Theatre Owners of America's theatre television committee. Wolfson made this observation here yesterday following the first day's session at the Hotel Astor of the twoday meeting of the TOA executive committee. At the closed parley he (Continued on page 3) AFL GUARD AGAINST COMMUNISM IN UN FILMS PLEDGED BY GREEN American Federation of Labor will guard against the infiltration of Communist techniques in United Nations motion pictures, AFL president William Green has indicated in a letter to U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, made public yesterday. The letter concerned the nomination of Richard F. Walsh, president of the AFL's IATSE, as advisor to the U. S. delegation at the fifth general conference of UNESCO, scheduled to open May 22 in Florence, (Continued on page 4) Action Nearly Due On EC A Guarantees Washington, May 15. — The Economic Cooperation Administration expects to announce by the end of the month terms of its guaranty contracts for the operation of motion picture companies in Germany during 1950. The total involved is about $3,300, (Continued on page 4) Both Government and Companies See Supreme Court Ready to Hear Appeals Washington, May 15. — Government attorneys as well as those for Loew's, 20th Century-Fox and Warner apparently are proceeding on the assumption that the U. S. Supreme Court will agree to review a New York statutory court decision in the industry antitrust case for the second time. The three companies have asked the high court to review the New York court's Feb. 8 decision and from the tenor of their arguments and the government's before Justice William O. Douglas here last Friday on applications for a stay of judgment, there appears to be little doubt on either side that the Supreme Court will grant the companies' petitions for review. The case was before the high court several years ago. If the Supreme Court were to take the case now it could not be argued before early fall, with a decision unlikely before the end of the year or early next year. With the stay of the New York court judgment now in effect, the companies would have three years after the Supreme Court decision in which to effect divorcement and divestiture unless consent decrees are entered into with the government in the meantime. UKRemittance Views Given US Delegates Production in Britain Looms as Big Problem By PETER BURNUP London, May 15. — Encouragement of increased American production here looms as a major strategy of the British government and film industry in the negotiations concerning the Anglo-American motion picture remittance agreement, which were opened at the Board of Trade today. Today's meeting produced an exchange of views by Harold Wilson, president of the BOT; Eric Johnston, Motion Picture Association of American president; Ellis Arnall, president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers; James Mulvey, also represent (Continued on page 3) Technicolor Cuts Prices March was the biggest month in the history of Technicolor, Inc., Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus, president and general manager, declared here yesterday as he announced a reduction in the base price of 35mm. prints. Kalmus, who met the press yesterday at a reception at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, said record volume was expected by the end of the year, after completion of plant expansion. Kalmus revealed that the net profit (Continued on page 3) Allied of Ia.-Neb. Meet Opens Today Omaha, May 15. — Annual two-day convention of Allied ITO of Iowa and Nebraska will get underway here tomorrow at the Fontanelle Hotel, with a speech on television by Trueman Rembusch, national Allied president, and a demonstration of Phonevision among the opening day highlights. ^ PARAMOUNT PICTURE, IT'S THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN! • IF IT'S A PARAMOUNT PICTURE, IT'S THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN ! • IF IT'S A PARAMOUNT PICTURE, IT'S THE BEST SHOW THE EAGLE A Pmnnvfliltlt Pirtnr«» ICTURE, IT'S THE BEST SF AND THE color by TECHNICOLOR HAWK IS "SUREFIRE! ft Says Film Bulletin IF IT'S A PAR> WN !