Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1951
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000137
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:
December 02, 2023
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VOL. 70. NO. 82 MOTION PICTURE DAILY NEW YORK, U.S.A., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1951 TEN CENTS Arbitration Put on Allied Board Agenda Will Consider TOA's Plan for Joint Action Decisions on a dozen major topics, ranging from renewal of Allied States Association's membership in the Council of Motion Picture Organizations to a stand on film prices and other trade practices, are scheduled to be made by Allied's board of directors at its meetings in the Biltmore Hotel here Sunday and Monday, preceding the three-day Allied national convention. Arb'tration and competitive bidding are on the board's agenda, but it is possible the board may just discuss these and leave a final decision to the convention itself. Other matters up for action include television, Allied's views on "Movietime U. S. A.", and the possibility of a joint convention next year with equipment manufacturers and dealers. The agenda for the board meeting discloses two new aspects of Allied's {Continued on page 2) 4IT Stock Sales Not On Davis's Agenda John Davis, managing director of J. Arthur Rank's British motion picture enterprises, is scheduled to arrive here from London on Nov. 19. Rank will not accompany him. Davis's visit is described as his customary one to New York at this time of year and sale of Rank's 134,375 shares of Universal Pictures common stock to the Nate J. Blum (Continued on page 4) 8 More Percentage Suits Are Settled Baltimore, Oct. 25. — Eight percentage actions brought by distributors against Diamond Globe Corp. and the estate of Lee W. Insley have been concluded upon stipulation of counsel for all parties. The order ending the litigation indicated that each action had been satisfied, all costs to be paid by the defendants. The actions had been filed by (Continued on page 4) E. Pa. Approach to Allied Board Seen Philadelphia, Oct. 25.— Indication that the Allied States board at its meeting in New York Sunday and Monday will be called upon to consider the remstatement of Allied of Eastern Pennsylvania as a regional member in good standing was seen today in the report that Sidney E. Samuelson, head of the Pennsylvania regional, has made a reservation to attend the board meeting and the convention which will follow Tuesday through Thursday. O'Brien Sees Wide Theatre Video Use in Off -Hours The wide employment of theatre television for "non-entertainment" programs such as civil defense, national conventions, and sales meetings in off-hours of theatre attendance was predicted here yesterday by Robert H. O'Brien, secretary-treasurer of L'nited Paramount Theatres. Addressing the American Television Society luncheon meeting at the Hotel Roosevelt, O'Brien joined the other speaker, Paul Raibourn, vicepresident of Paramount Pictures, in declaring there was a community of interest between the motion picture and television industries. Raibourn, who is also chairman of the board of International Telemeter Corp., spoke on subscription-televi (Continued on page 4) TOA's First Trade Practice Hearing Planned for Nov. 18 Charlotte, Oct. 25. — Plans for holding the first regional grievance hearing under Theatre Owners of America's new plan during the annual convention of Theatre Owners of North and South Carolina here Nov. 18 are nearing completion. The TOA grievance panel consists of Mitchell Wolfson, president ; Charles Skouras, board chairman ; Gael Sullivan, executive director, and Herman Levy, general counsel. It was scheduled to hold sessions to hear and endeavor to resolve trade practice complaints of the smaller TOA members, convening every other month successively in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Chicago. Although Charlotte was not among the cities designated as meeting places for the panel, it was felt that the convention of the Carolinas' af (Continued on page 2) RKO, Loew's Supply Data in Pathe Suit Pathe Industries' $15,000,000 tripledamage anti-trust action against Loew's and RKO Theatres is expected to go to trial in U. S. District Court here this winter, according to advice received by William C. MacMillen, Jr., Pathe president, from the company's attorneys. The suit, filed jointly on Oct. 3, 1950, by Pathe and Eagle Lion Classics, alleged that the two circuits "have by their persistent collusive (Continued on page 2) U. S. Okays Large -Screen TV Color Experiments Washington, Oct. 25. — The government will permit large-screen color television development to go ahead for the time being. This was made clear at a meeting held here today where television set makers agreed to a government request to end production of home color TV sets until materials are more abundant. Both Defense Mobilizer Wilson and Defense Production Administrator Fleischmann said the whole question of color TV in theatres has just not come up yet, and that there certainly are no plans now to prevent this. In (Continued on page 4) TV Metals Supplies Status Liberalized Washington, Oct 25. — The National Production Authority today officially reclassified television and broadcasting facilit'es as "industrial" rather than "commercial" projects, permitting builders of these facilities to selfcertify much larger amounts of steel, copper and aluminum Skouras Plans Color TV for All NT Houses Would Produce Programs In Own Key Studios By MURRAY HOROWITZ A large-scale color theatre television program encompassing the production of special shows in regional studios to be piped into theatres was outlined here yest e r d a y by Charles P. Skouras, preside nt of National Theatres, on the eve of his departure for Zurich, Switzerland, to view the 20th Century Fox Swiss Eidophor-CBS color television system. Studios for production were enviKansas City and Charles Skoura theatre TV sioned in Denver, (Continued on page 4) Says NFL Suit Vital For Theatre Video Washington*, Oct. 25. — The outcome of the government's anti-trust suit against the National Football League will "have the greatest impact" on the legality of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's restriction on the telecasting of college football games, according to the government's top trust-buster. Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morrison said that he (Continued on page 4) State of Israel To Honor Skouras Spyros P. Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, will be honored by the State of Israel at a dinner to be given at the Hotel Astor here on Wednesday, Dec. 12, it was announced here yesterday by Max A. Cohen, president of Cinema Circuit and dinner chairman. The dinner will climax the amusement division drive for State of Israel (Continued on page 2)