Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1955)

Tuesday, March 15, 1955 Motion Picture Daily 7 Exposition (Continued from page 1) $1,000,000 worth of debentures, offered for sale in $100 units bearing 5 percent interest. No funds are to be expended until $850,000 or more has been subscribed. The Motion Picture Exposition, to be open to the public every day in the year from 10:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. at an undetermined admission price, will be located at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Bronson Avenue, site of the original Warner Brothers studio, which will be entirely remodelled for the exposition. 16mm to Highlight SMPTE Meet The 77th semi-annual convention of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers at The Drake in Chicago, April 18-22 will feature the production and distribution of 16mm non-theatrical motion pictures for educational and industrial use. To date, more than a dozen papers on these questions have been received, with the promise of more to come. To aid those engaged in the production of commercial and educational motion pictures who do not have access to the know-how and extensive fabricating facilities available on major studio lots for the creation of sets, props and special effects, Herbert Meyer of the Motion Picture Research Council in Hollywood will discuss "Selected Set Construction Techniques." Warn TV Producers On Film Copyright By SAMUEL D. BERNS HOLLYWOOD, March 14.— Producers and distributors of television films have been alerted to the fact that a considerable number of TV films are being produced bearing a notice of copyright, for which the claims to copyright seem not to have been registered with the Library of Congress copyright office, according to letters received here from Richard S. MacCarteney, chief of the Reference Division, in Washington. Statute Quoted Under the statute, "copyright in a film reproduced in copies for sale or distribution is secured when it is published for the first time, if at that time it bears the statutory notice of copyright. Once a work has been so published the Copyright claimant is obligated to deposit copies and to register his claim to copyright with the copyright office. When copies are not deposited promptly after publication with notice, the Register of Copyrights is authorized to demand such copies, and failure to comply with such demand will not only result in voiding of the copyright, but may also result in the imposition of a substantial fine," it was pointed out in the letter. Cost of Print a Factor In questioning a distributor and a producer of TV films with regard to the foregoing practice, it was reported that producers and story departments generally accept a verbal statement of Production Going Up; 29 in Work HOLLYWOOD, March 14.— Production continued its upward climb this week for a total of 29 pictures before the cameras. Four new pictures were started and two others were completed. Started were : "Women's Reformatory," ( Allied Artists) ; "Hell's Horizon," Gravis Productions (Independent) ; "Guys And Dolls," Goldwyn, CinemaScope, Technicolor (MetroGoldwyn-Mayer) ; "A Many-Splendored Thing," CinemaScope, color (20th Century-Fox). Completed were : "It's Always Fair Weather," CinemaScope, color (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) ; "The Spoilers," Technicolor (Universal-International). Rhoden to Speak HOLLYWOOD, March 14. — National Theatres president Elmer C. Rhoden will be the guest speaker at Wednesday's evening meeting of the Motion Picture Industry Council here. Rhoden will address the group on public relations. copyright from the author, and that producers are "lax" in supplying the copyright office with prints in the belief that the cost of a print is too great a contribution to make to the archives. The distributor said there is no reason not to offer a print to the Library of Congress providing they agree to make a purchase at cost. Kalmenson {Continued from page 1) to Dec. 31, 1959. The former date was the expiration of his contracted employment under a 1951 agreement. The SEC was informed that his compensation and weekly allowance shall continue at the same weekly rate so long as he remains general sales manager. His rate under the 1951 contract was listed as $1,750 per week, plus $250 per week for entertainment and other expenses. The new agreement also continued and extended the 1951 provision concerning his employment as advisor at a weekly rate of $500 for five years after ceasing to function in the capacity of general sales manager. Texas State-Wide Debuts for 'Cover' "Run For Cover," Paramount's first Western in VistaVision, and starring James Cagney, Viveca Lindfors and John Derek, will have a world premiere on a state-wide basis in Texas, April 5-9. The first opening will be held at the Paramount Theatre, Austin,., on. April 5. Cagney will attend the opening at Austin and also at four other key Texas situations. These are : the Majestic Theatre, San Antonio, April 6; Majestic, Houston, April 7; Majestic, Dallas, April 8, and Worth, Fort Worth, April 9. There also will be two additional premiere openings : the Waco Theatre, Waco, April 8, and the Plaza Theatre, El Paso, April 9. seventeen • names MGM's HIT THE DECK April, Picture of the Month pipes it aboard all movie marquees with a 21 GUN SALUTE ■ ■ I In Color and OnemaScopC starring JANE TONY _ DEBBIE WALTER . VIC GENE ANN RUSS POWELL * MARTIN REYNOLDS * PIDGEON DAMON E RAYMOND 9 MILLER 9 TAMBLYN Directed by Roy Rowland Produced by Joe Pasternak An M-G-M Picture