Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1956)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1956
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00099
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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day, October 16, 1956 Motion Picture Daily New Film Theatres iapan During 1955 PKYO, Oct. 11 (By Air Mail).bese theatre owners opened 850 operations in 1955 at the rate of !»er day, according to a governreport. m business in Japan is booming (jver before as the people have to spend and more time for cement. There are only 400,000 sion sets, mostly in wealthy Is, bars and tea shops. ve to Speed Handling Larger SB A Loans From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 The I Business Administration has ■d to speed processing of some by giving regional offices auiy to approve some larger loans until now had to be forwarded I ashington. |A administrator Wendell Barnes he had authorized the agency's igional directors to approve loans eix own authority up to $100,000, . a bank is taking at least a 25 pent participation. Previously re.1 directors had authority to apb participation loans up to $50,but larger ones had to be forced to Washington. r\ Writer Seeking to Stop Opening of '80 Days' James Poe, Hollywood Writer, has notified Michael Todd, producer of "Around the World in 80 Days," that he will seek to restrain showing of the film unless he is given screenplay credit as approved by The Writers Guild of America, West, in an arbitration "to which Todd was a willing party." The world premiere of "Around the World in 80 Days" is slated to take place here tomorrow. The legal services of John Schulman, copyright attorney of the firm of Schulman, Klein and Stern, have been retained for Poe. Three in New Firm to Make TV Commercials Three film producers, George Tompkins, Bichard Donner and Charles Green, have formed a new organization here which will specialize in production of film commercials for television. The company will be called Signal Productions, Inc. 'Giant' Coast Bow BUBBANK, Calif., Oct. 15-More than 300 stars and industry leaders will attend the formal invitational Hollywood premiere of George Stevens' production, "Giant," at Grauman's Chinese Theatre Tuesday evening. Canada Group Seeks Closed Circuit Pay TV OTTAWA, Oct. 15.-Trans-Canada Telemeters, a subsidiary of Famous Players Canadian Corp., reportedly is arranging to commence closed circuit community pay tv in Canada on a per set basis to be paid monthly by set owners. This operation is expected to start at Kitimat, B. C; Kenora, Ontario, and North Battleford, Sask. Since the service does not use the airwaves, no Canadian Broadcasting Corp. permit is needed. However, the company is required to obtain Federal Transport Department approval. This is now being sought by Famous Players to commence such operations. WGA Seeks to Clarify Agents-Writers Link The National Council of the Writer's Guild of America, in the first session of its annual meeting here, has approved a membership plan aimed at clarifying the relationship between agents and writers in the motion picture, television and radio fields. Under terms of the proposal more than 2,000 members of WGA would deal in the future only with agents acquiring guild franchises after agreeing to a code of fair practices relating to commissions, terms of representation and services. of D rive-ins Seek Drive-In Organization An effort to organize operators of drive-in theatres has been started in eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware. Exhibitors there are being asked to join forces in a formal group which would concern itself exclusively with operational problems of drive-in theatres. ® Chicago Owner Is Cited Stanford Kohlberg, owner and operator of the Starlite Drive-in Theatre, Chicago, is singled out for special attention in a recent Saturday Evening Post article titled "Big Boom in Outdoor Movies." The article say Kohlberg "has concentrated on lures that attract the customers in any kind of weather." The "lures" referred to include dancing under the stars, free milk and free diapers for babies, a driving range, a miniature golf course, door prizes and a Kiddieland for youngsters. ® New Manager in Alabama The new manager of the MarshallDrive-In, Albertsville, Ala., is Bay McCulloch, a native of Decatur, Ala. McCulloch came to Decatur from Greensville, Ky., where he was manager of three theatres for the past several years. Jew Year's Eve... from COLUMBIA!