Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1954)

Thursday, July 8, 1954 Motion Picture Daily RKO Schedules Twelve, AH in Color (Continued from page 1) fered to the exhibitor and the public." "These 12 films represent the kind of entertainment we know the public wants," Grainger said. "Each film is in color, many utilize the various widescreen techniques and each film has top star and story material." Grainger disclosed that negotiations by RKO are currently under way for certain additional top-level films to be released during this period. Leaves Today for Coast Grainger will leave Thursday for Hollywood for conferences at the studio with Hughes and C. J. Tevlin, vice president in charge of studio operations. He will go to San Francisco for the fourth and final RKO sales meeting, set for the St. Francis Hotel July 12-13, and will return to the studio following the San Francisco meeting. Schedule of RKO' product, with release dates is as follows : "Susan Slept Here," to be world premiered in San Francisco on July 14, and scheduled for national release on July 24. The film co-stars Dick Powell and Debbie Reynolds and was produced by Harriet Parsons in Technicolor ; "Passion," Aug. 22, co-stars Cornel Wilde and Yvonne de Carlo, in Technicolor ; "This Is My Love," Sept. 18, starring Linda Darnell, Rick Jason, Dan Duryea and Faith Domergue, Pathe Color ; "Africa Adventure," Oct. 9, Robert C. Ruark's filmed-inAfrica story of his safari, in color ; "The Americano," Oct. 23, starring Glenn Ford, Ursula Thiess, Cesar Romero and Frank Lovejoy, in Technicolor; "Jet Pilot," Nov. 13, Howard Hughes' aviation production, starring John Wayne, in Technicolor ; "Son of Sinbad," Nov. 27, starring Dale Robertson, Sally Forrest, Dili St. Cyr and Vincent Price, in Technicolor; "Cattle Queen of Montana," Dec. 11, co-starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan, in Technicolor. "The Big Rainbow," Dec. 25, starring Jane Russell with Gilbert Roland, Richard Egan and Lori Nelson, in Technicolor; "The Conqueror," midJanuary, 1955, starring John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Pedro Armendariz, in CinemaScope, Technicolor; "The Girl Rush," mid-February, starring Rosalind Russell in Technicolor, and "The Sea Is a Woman," midMarch, with an all-star cast in Technicolor. "Son of Sinbad," listed among the above releases, is reported as still lacking the Production Code Seal. Moves to obtain such seal are said not to have been consummated as yet. Remittances (Continued from page 1) Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Export Association, stated yesterday. The MPEA president said that Canada, in his opinion, was a sovereign state and considered part of the foreign market despite the fact that American distributors include Canadian earnings in domestic figures. "The net remittances in dollars by U. S. companies last year were about $160-170 million," Johnston said. Pathe 'Technicolor Suit (Continued from page 1) Act. Pathe, a subsidiary of Chesapeake Industries, Inc., has film processing laboratories in New York City and Hollywood. Under the Lanham Act, ' Pathe makes generally the same charges it levelled at the two Technicolor corporations in a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission on June 8. At that time, Pathe asked the commission to prevent further use of the word "Technicolor" to describe pictures EXPERIENCE A PRICELESS ASSET OF ALTEC STEREOPHONIC SERVICE! The finest service experience in stereoplionic sound is yours when you sign an Altec contract. Experience bought and paid for in countless hours of pioneering effort and research ,.. experience in supervising critical CinemaScope industry show/ings and first run premieres, experience w/ith an unceasing flov^ of stereophonic installation and service orders, experietnce implemented by Altecdevised precision tools. 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The Pathe suit asks for an injuncf'^" ^JoP, use of the description technicolor for anything but the patented imbibition process. It also requests $100,000 damages on the basis ot Pathe s loss of customers through such alleged false description. Pathe using the Eastman process, which it refers to as Pathecolor, is a competitor of the defendants. Under the anti-trust section of its action filed yesterday in U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Pathe is requesting an additional $300,000 damages. It char<.es that through a licensing agreement filed last winter, the Technicolor companies now control the operation and profits of a previous competitor, DeEuxe Laboratories, Inc., thus creating a monopolyin the motion picture laboratory business. Pathe asks that the court cancel the TechnicolorLJeLuxe agreement Todd' ^Scope (Continued from: page 1) of simultaneous filming in both ToddAO and CinemaScope, yesterday said that he now welcomes the use of CinemaScope for reasons of compar-t: ison, whether or not the need for using the CinemaScope print evef arises. This reasoning is in line with Todd's previous procedure in shooting test scenes in Todd-AO similar to those he has already shot for Cinerama, which were shown for comparative purposes at the recent unveiling of Todd-AO in Hollywood. ; Second Production Planned Todd also stated that it is planned that the second production to be made in Todd-AO will be independently produced under the auspices of his new firm, the Michael Todd Co., Inc., an organization that has been set up to make 10' pictures in five years. ; Todd left yesterday for Europe to purchase a property for the launching of his program. These pictures, he said, will be made in the Todd-AO process only. Dr. Brian O'Brian, who developed the Todd-AO process, has perfected a print-down system that will take the large 65mm ToddAO master prints and reduce them for any of the existing screens. Trust Cases (Continued from page 1) which passed the House last year, also passed the House in two previous Congresses but never has before received Senate action. The bill was endorsed by Rep. Celler (D., N. Y.), author of the House bill, and by Stanley Barnes, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Anti-Trust Division. ; The New York and Illinois B^r Associations approved the bill providing it specified that wilful criminal intent be proven before heavy fines are imposed. The Chamber of Commerce opposed the bill, saying that tougher penalties should be postponed until Congress has passed bills to "relieve business of the major confusions and harassments" of the present laws. Breen Retirement (Continued front page 1) of Breen, stated that "the administrator, not feeling too well during the past few years, has had a difficult job" and that the MPAA was mulling a plan where he would take a less active role in the Code Administration. There is nothing definite on Breen's retirement at the present, Johnston said. Technicolor Answers (Continued from page 1) a press release with respect to a complaint that it said it was filing with the Federal Trade Commission concerning Technicolor, but Pathe Laboratories never 'has sent Technicolor a copy of that complaint. "Technicolor has ;had . little to do with Pathe Laboratories except that on its own initiative, Pathe Laboratories sometime ago commenced negotiations with Technicolor ; first, to obtain a license from Technicolor, and. later, to attempt to sell New York Pathe Laboratory facilities to Technicolor. "Complaints by Pathe La'ooratoicies that it is unable to compete with Technicolor are in no way due to any illegal or improper action by Technicolor. "Technicolor will answer in the courts any action that Pathe Laboratories .brings against it and is confident of the result."