Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1956)

ay, October 11, 1956 Motion Picture Daily 3 t: •EDPLE }.,}L Kamath has been named |r of Warner Bros.' office in k, Thailand, it is announced ife Cohen, president of Warner ional. E. D'Souza, former ii in Bangkok has been reas manager of the company's Indonesia. □ " ;les Kontulis has been elected tat of the Stanley Warner Club V, | annual meeting held at the office. Other officers are: vicekits, Harriett Pettit, Stanley j . Etta Rodoff, Fred Stengel and Sherwood; treasurer, John T. secretary, Stuart H. Aarons. i c □ n L. Friend, president of Tele1 lm Studios, Chicago, has added staff Bryan Wright, as producpervisor; Jack L. Richards, as 4 ameraman, and Stan Vrba, as Ijanager. □ Ham P. Lowden, Du Pont x-ray |ts technical representative for ill 1 1 New York with headquarters Halo, has been transferred to Ir as technical representative for l ire line of Du Pont x-ray, mocture, press, portrait, and inl photographic products. He Over Colorado, Wyoming, and i lexico. ge Nelson, publicist and forwsman, has joined the national relations firm of Cleary& Irwin as vice-president in of Eastern operations. □ □ rt Goldman, projectionist at icon Hill Theatre, Boston, will railed Commander of the Lt. Inon Macaulay Post No. 270, j eatrical Post of the American on Nov. 20 at Blinstrub's Vil s in Canada Continued from page 1 ) al official said he hadn't heard such plans. 'p stayed here brieflv, flying last ,o Toronto. He will then go to ■ *o tomorrow and on to New sxt Monday. He is due back in ) Oct. 23. He is accompanied ;nneth Hargreaves, Kenneth jes and Harry Norris of the : listribution organization. : e' Has Premiere INNATI, Oct. 10-With Doris i spearing on the stage of the ^.lbee in person, following three "f a comprehensive home-comledule here, "Julie," produced rdently by Martin Melcher for [ release, had its world prehere tonight for a benefit au 'Giant' Bows Red Chinese Like 'Tulip9 (Continued from page 1) including industry figures and celebrities. "Giant" begins its regular run this morning at the Roxy. The opening was covered by more than 60 critics and reporters representing that many papers from 27 cities as far west as St. Louis. The premiere was filmed by the Ed Sullivan tv show for telecast next Sunday and by every television newsreel. The event was also telecast locally, live, from the lobby of the Roxy via WABD-TV with Chill Wills, who starred in "Giant," as master of ceremonies, and Jayne Meadows as mistress of ceremonies. Ryder Tells SMPTE (Continued from page 1) Television Engineers at the Ambassador Hotel this afternoon. Ryder stressed refinements in sound-recording, mentioning for the first time a new device that, he said, "remembers what was done during rehearsal and plays this information back." Ryder, who is a former SMPTE president, presided at an evening session on color. Edward W. Templin, electronic design supervisor for the Westrex Corp., made a strong case for multi-channel sound, saying, "Music and other effects which pictorially are spread all over the screen should have their associated sounds similarly distributed." He said this requires using as many as seven channels, but added that the cost becomes an important factor in this operation. A paper by Robert E. Gottschalk, president of the Panavision Corp., which was to be read today, will be given Friday evening instead, at the M-G-M studio. Gottschalk will demonstrate the reverse anamophoser for drive-ins which have extra long throws requiring, otherwise, extra long lenses which do not yield a bright screen image. The Gottschalk lens, it is said, will enable exhibitors to use a shorter lens and get a superior image on the screen. SWG Group to N. Y. ( Continued from page 1 ) in New York on Friday and Saturday. Among the matters likely to come up for discussion is SWG's differences with Mike Todd concerning writer credits to be given for "Around the World in 80 Days," which began with arbitration proceedings and progressed through the Guild's 'placement of Todd on its unfair list and Todd's launching of a Superior Court suit against writer James Poe and former Todd treasurer Bernard J. Reis, charging conspiracy to influence the arbitration board. As Todd is not a signatory to the SWG basic contract with producers, the Guild-Todd controversy, widelyaired in the press, has been regarded in the trade here primarily as fostered by the producer for publicity purposes. By A. C. PINDER TOKYO, Oct. 7 (By Air Mail)The biggest thing to hit Red China since the revolution was Gina Lollobrigida in "Fanfan the Tulip," which has been packing them in ever since it hit the Communist motion picture theatres. The Chinese on the mainland are starved for Western films as was proven when the Italian "Bicycle Thief" was released in 1955 and drew huge crowds as the first new Western film since 1949 to play on the mainland. Little Chance for U.S. Films There is little chance of new American films getting in with both the Red and the U.S. Government's opposing such a move. But of late the Communist Chinese have brought in two Danish films, the first ever shown in China, "Story of My Life," a biography of Hans Christian Andersen, and "Steadfast Tin Soldier," one of his fairy tales in color. A West German film, "Heart of the World," the story of Baroness Bertha von Suttner, has been dubbed in Chinese and is also being shown. This last summer also saw over 2,000,000 Communist ticket buyers when five Japanese films were shown for two weeks in 10 Communist Chinese theatres in 10 different cities. These films were handpicked and devoted to the seamy side of life in Japan with the exception of one made by a Leftist Japanese company which was a musical devoted to classical music. Reds Call lt "Decadent' This latter film was criticized by Japanese Communist Party members as "decadent" to which the producer replied that he was going broke making propaganda films and wanted to recoup his losses with a picture that the public would like. Johnston to Budapest For Iron-Curtain Study Special to THE DAILY BONN, Germany, Oct. 10,-Eric |ohiiston, president of the Motion Picture Export Association, left here today for Frankfort where he will emplane for Budapest on the first leg of his Iron Curtain film survey. Johnston, while here, conferred with Chancellor Adenauer, Secretary of State Halstein, and Minister of Economics Erhard. Livingston to NBC HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 10-Alan W. Livingston, former executive vice-president of Capitol Records, and more recently nresident of California National Productions, subsidiary of NBC, has been named by the network to head television programming at the NBC studios here. . . . NEWS ROUNDUP Urges Ticket Tax Gut A decrease of 50 per cent in the amusement tax was urged by Mayor Richardson Dilworth in presenting the city budget to Philadelphia's City Council. Dilworth said that this tax had shown a steady reduction due to decreased patronage. A drop of $1,200,000 would result from reduction of the 10 per cent tax to five per cent. ■ AAP Sales Meet Today A two-day sales conference of fit-Id representatives of the Associated Artists Productions has been called for by Bob Rich, general sales manager, tor today and tomorrow at the Hotel Gotham here. AAP distributes Warner Bros, features and cartoons and "Popeve" cartoons to television. B Presley Gut-Out for Para. What is said to be the "largest cut-out figure ever erected above a theatre marquee" will be installed at the Paramount Theatre here starting next week. It is a giant, 40-foot likeness of Elvis Presley, star of 20th Century-Fox's "Love Me Tender," which will open at the theatre later this fall. a Speed Record for Filmack A speed record for producing a oneminute film commercial in less than 48 hours was claimed this week by Filmack Television Studios here. The job was received at 9 A.M. on a Monday from Cities Service through Ellington & Co. and by 6 P.M. Wednesday a 35mm release print was on the air, according to Don Mack, vice-president and tv sales manager of Filmack. ■ Preniinger Returning Here Producer Otto Preminger will return here tomorrow from London, where he completed the European phase of his global search for a young actress to play Joan of Arc in his United Artists film of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan." He will announce the winner of the contest on the Ed Sullivan television show Sunday, Oct. 21. Murrow Off CBS Board The Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., yesterday announced the resignation of Edward R. Murrow as a member of its board of directors. In his letter of resignation Murrow stated: "As you know, I am in the process of negotiating a new and possibly long-term employment contract with CBS. It seems to me inappropriate that I should remain a member of the board while these negotiations are in progress. . . ."