Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1956)

4 Motion Picture Daily Monday, October 15, If you're 16 you're old enough to see Paramount Sells 6 to NTA Ad-Pub PI; (Continued feature films to tv. This was Paramount's first such sale. At the conclusion of the negotiations with Paramount, Unger reported, NTA acquired Rainbow Productions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Paramount, including the films and story properties, for $775,000. The six pictures which went to NTA in the deal are Rainbow Prods.' "Bells of St. Mary's" and "Good Sam," two Paramount British co-productions, "Encore" and "Trio," and two Fleischer feature cartoons, "Gulliver's Travels" and "Mr. Bugs Goes to Town." "Bells of St. Mary's," starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman, will go into world-wide theatrical release as a reissue, Unger said, as well as tv. The production was never reissued from page 1 ) after its original run, when the Leo McCarey-Rainbow production was released by RKO Radio in 1945. "Good Sam," which stars Gary Cooper, is scheduled as the opening show of NTA's new tv network show which starts today. It is also a McCarey-Rainbow production and a 1948 RKO release, acquired by Paramount with Rainbow Prods. The story properties which NTA •acquired with Rainbow Productions are "One More Tomorrow," by Stewart Jones and Anthony Ellis, and "Private Property," by Robert Russell. Unger said that plans have not yet been formulated but that these stories will be developed for NTA network showing, making use of the Rainbow facilities. Films for Patrons 9-24 Seen Aid to Box Office More exploitation pictures aimed at the 9-24 years age group are seen as one answer to "exhibitors' complaints of falling box office" by James Nicholson, president of American International Pictures, who spent last week discussing the complaints with the major circuits here. Nicholson's production company, formed 15 months ago, has made and released 11 low-budget "action and exploitation" features, plus eight pictures made by other companies. Several of these pictures did so well as double-bill packages in the smaller houses that the major circuits expressed an interest in his company's future plans, Nicholson said. Sees Teenagers Neglected "The exhibitor's big complaint is that most Hollywood product is limed at the adult or 'intellectual' audience," he said, "completely ignoring the huge teenage audience -lotential." RKO Theatres, he said, purchased 'lis company's latest double-bill pack■ge, two "teenage-girl" pictures, for howing in the circuit's larger theares. All the majors booked package -ills for some of their big houses, he -eported. AMPP Is Asked ( Continued from page 1 ) port on the Production Code. Shurlock would not say what the draft of this report contained and if anv revisions in the Code were recommended to the MPAA board of directors. Commenting further on his European trip, Shurlock said it primarily was to study censorship in foreign countries and their effect on U. S. motion pictures. "Seventy per cent of our films are receiving family classifications abroad," Shurlock said, "and we can boost this percentage figure if our producers reduce the violence in films." The Code administrator said this recommendation was presented to the Hollywood producers and that they are considering it. Todd Sues Writer HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 14-Michael Todd, producer of "Around the World in 80 Days," has filed suit in Superior Court in Santa Monica against James Poe, a writer on the picture, asking damages totaling $250,000. The complaint alleges that Poe involved the company in a labor dispute with the Writers Guild of America, West, over screen credit and that Poe also received $2,166.30 more than he was entitled to be paid under the contract. ( Continued from page 1 feeding Jerry Pickman, vice-pn in charge of advertising and pu for Paramount Pictures. The new promotional plan, would be a type of "sweepstake, chandising and promotion idea on • the 'Oscar' presentation av will be included in the overa ommendations of the Advertisii Publicity Directors Committee to be discussed at Thursday's nfl of company presidents, domestij foreign sales heads and domestfl foreign advertising-publicity ha, The MPAA committee, whiclj a luncheon meeting at the Iffl| Club here last Thursday, also ha" Manning (Tim) Clagett of MPAA for his work with the el] tee in the past. Clagett, who is| i ly leaving here for Washington I sume new duties there for the W: was presented with a set of Di pipes. Italian Cardinal Lauij U.S. Film 'Safeguard ROME, Oct. 11 (By Air Commemorating the 20th anni of the Papal Encyclical, "V Cura," Italian Cardinal Giusep Archbishop of Genoa, emphas: "very intelligent indeed" the An moral safeguards in line with t cyclical, promulgated by th Pope Pius XI. He mentioned connection the Production Co< Legion of Decency and other The commemoration took p] the closing ceremony of the N Congress of the Catholic Motio ture here. TV Sets Show Rise WASHINGTON, Oct. 14-P tion of television sets in Aug creased over the amount produ July, the Radio-Electronics-Tele< Manufacturers Assn. announced the weekend, reaching the 1^ figure since March. In Augus were 612,927 television receive duced, RETMA said, compare 336,931 turned out in July an< 903 in August, 1955. A total] 365,016 sets was produced sin,' first of the year. from 20th Century-Fox