Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1951)

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M. MOTION PICTURE Jim DAILY VOL. 70. NO. 72 NEW YORK, U.S.A., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1951 TEN CENTS US Sports TV Suit Will Not Hit Theatres Could Still Buy Rights To Exclusive Telecasts Washington, Oct. 10. — Yesterday's Federal anti-trust suit against the National Football League, even if successful, would not in any way restrict the right of an individual team or sports promoter to sell telecast rights to theatres rather than broadcasters, attorneys here emphasized today. The suit would, however, upset any organized agreement to restrict any type of telecasting. In filing the suit, the Justice Department emphasized that the main purpose was to permit each club to sell the telecast rights as it sees fit. Even if the suit were sustained, an individual club could still favor the(Conlinucd on page 7) Chesnes, Hammer In Para. TV Posts Albert A. Chesnes has been named manager of Paramount's theatre television by Richard Hodgson, director of the company's television development. At the same time, Hodgson named Jack Hammer supervisor of theatre television film processing. He will also have charge of processing equipment design and operation. Chesnes, who has been in charge of various aspects of the company's theatre television operations for the past three years, now assumes complete administrative and operational responsibility for Paramount's video recording service and installations of Paramount's inter-film theatre TV {Continued on page 7) Okay Paramount Telemeter Test Washington, Oct. 10. — The Federal Communications Commission today gave Paramount Television Productions authority to test its "Telemeter" subscr'ber-vision system. The test period will run for 90 days and will be carried on over Station KTLA in Los Angeles. Business Booms at N. Y. First-Runs A sharp spurt in business was recorded yesterday by a number of New York firstruns, notably Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy. At the former, where "An American in Paris" shares the program with a stage bill, long lines of patrons contributed a mammoth $22,000 gross for the day, and the initial week, ended last n:ght, amounted to a top-notch take of $157,000. Josephine Baker on stage and "A Millionaire for Christy" on the screen, attracted a big $14,000 singleday's gross at the Roxy. Cloudy, cold weather and the large number of out-oftowners who had come to New York for the World Series were credited with stimulating theatre business. 4 MOVIETIME ' STARS WINNING AMERICA 300 Register for TESMA-TEDAMeet Hollywood, Oct. 10. — Registrations for the joint TESMA-TEDA convention at the Ambassador Hotel here tonight were nearing the 300 mark, according to TEDA executive director Ray G. Colvin, presiding over a registration desk surrounded by carpenters, plasterers, cement mixers engaged in remodelling the lobby. Despite the hullabaloo, which arriving delegates accustomed to confusion accompanying theatre equipment installations took in stride, indications to (Continued on page 7) Election Today Will Set 'Collarite9 Showdown Date Another showdown between the two rival unions which have been struggling for supremacy among the distributors' home office "white collar" workers will take place soon in the form of a National Labor Relations Board election. This time the stake is a particularly big one — the 350 clerks, stenographers and messengers employed at Columbia Pictures and Columbia International. NLRB official Jacob Lazarus today will conduct in New York a hearing for representatives of the two unions, IATSE Motion Picture Home Office Employes Local No. H-63 and District No. 65 of the Distributive, Processing and Office Workers of Amer (Contintied on page 7) 'U' Will Meet in St. Louis Tomorrow The third of a series of four regional meetings of Universal will get underway at the Hotel Chase in St. Louis tomorrow with personnel from the Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Memphis, New Orleans, Oklahoma City and St. Louis exchanges attending. Irving Sochin, assistant to Charles J. Feldman, Universal's domestic (Continued on page 7) DECOMPOSED CELLULOSE NITRATE FILM CAN IGNITE Washington, Oct. 10. — The government had discovered that cellulose nitrate motion picture film can ignite spontaneously when the film is in an advanced stage of decomposition. It was previously believed that nitrate film would not ignite spontaneously at ordinary temperatures in a film vault. However, tests made by the government's National Bureau of Standards, in cooperation with the National Archives, show that this does not hold for decomposed film. The Bureau said it felt its tests have provided the necessary information to prevent recurrence of severe fire losses experienced in recent years. It cited in particular numerous fires which occurred in New York City and adjacent areas during the abnormally hot summer of 1949, resulting in substantial property loss. The Bureau said its engineers, in studying storage conditions, found no evidence that the fires were due to the negligence of personnel or the careless use of matches, but rather originated through the spontaneous ignition of deteriorated film. This theory was confirmed in a series of tests, the Bureau said. One solution, the Bureau said, is to keep relatively low temperatures in film vaults, which will not only decrease the possibility of spontaneous fire but also will preserve the film better. The other answer, it declared, "is the removal of all film showing {Continued on page 7) Success Reported By COMPO with Tours Now at Half -Way Mark With the Hollywood personality tours nearing the half-way mark last night, reports from regional chairmen of the "Movietime, U.S. A " campaign in all parts of the country pointed to complete success in the establishment of goodwill for the industry among hundreds of thousands of persons in hundreds of towns never before visited by a Hollywood "name." The personality tours will be concluded on Saturday, with additional hundreds of towns to be visited in the meantime. Reports already received from the field at Council of Motion Picture Organizations' headquarters here make it clear that public enthusiasm for Hollywood and its personalities is being reanimated on a national (Continued on page 2) Nominate German To Head N.Y. Tent William German has been nominated to be chief barker of the Variety Club of New York, Tent No. 35. Fred Schwartz is the present chief barker. The nominating committee, headed by Henderson Richey, and composed of Bert Sanford, Morton Sunshine, Leon Bamberger and Si Fabian, has placed in nomination the following additional names : First assistant chief barker, Ira (Continued on page 7) UPT-ABC Merger Hearing Jan. 15 Washington, Oct. 10. — January 15 was set today as the starting date of Federal Communications Commission hearings on the proposed United Paramount TheatresAm e r i c a n Broadcasting merger and on whether Paramount Pictures, UPT and related corporations should be allowed to stay in the radiotelevision field in view of their past anti-trust records. The hearings will be before an FCC hearing examiner.