Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1956)

2 Motion Picture Daily PERSONAL Will Meet Nov. 25-27 MENTION Carolina 7.0. Group Wide Screen DAVID GOLDING, vice-president in charge of advertising and publicity for Hecht-Lancaster, will arrive in New York tomorrow from the Coast. • Edward L. Hyman, vice-president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres; Bernard Levy, his assistant, and Al Sicignano are in Des Moines today from New York. William Mansell, Warner Brothers division manager in Philadelphia, is in Chestnut Hill Hospital there as a result of a leg injury. • Herman Cohen, producer, has returned to Hollywood from New York. • George Woodham-Smith, a director of the J. Arthur Rank Organizations, is in New York from London. Name 6 Film Leaders For 'Wisdom' Citations HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 29.--Cecil B. DcMille, Louis B. Mayer, Jack L. Warner, Darryl F. Zanuck, Mervyri LeRoy and Laurence Olivier will receive "Wisdom Magazine's" first annual award for "significant contributions to knowledge and to the advancement of public education" at an invitation dinner Dec. 2 in the Beverly Hilton Hotel here. Lodge Luncheon Today Comedian Alan King and Oscar Goldstein, District Grand Lodge No. 1 executive of B'nai B'rith, will be the guests at the first membership luncheon meeting of the new season of New York's Cinema Lodge of B'nai B'rith at Toots Shor's today, it was announced yesterday by Robert K. Shapiro, president. A feature of the luncheon will be the climax of the lodge's annual fund-raising drive through the sale of 500 Contribution Share Certificates for $25 each with one of the purchasers being awarded a Cadillac. Barnett Firm Moves Barnett International Forwarders, Inc., specialists in international freight forwarding and customs work for the motion picture and tv industries, has moved its offices and packing rooms to a new location here on West 43rd St., it was announced yesterday by William Barnett, president. The new location permits consolidation of activities he said. Special to THE DAILY CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 29.-The Theatre Owners of North and South Carolina will hold their 44th annual convention at the Hotel Charlotte here on Nov. 25-26-27, it was announced by Jack D. Fuller, president of the association. Co-chairmen of the convention committee are Howard B. McNally of Fayetteville, N. C, and R. L. Baker, Jr., of Gastonia, N. C. Assisting them are: Ernest G Stellings, in charge of clinics; C P. Freeman, Jr., entertainment; F. H. Beddingfield, exhibits; Mrs. Runa C. Greenleaf, ladies' activities; and L. L. Theimer, publicity and talent. The reception of those registering will be handled by Roy Rowe of Burgaw, N. C, and J. J. Kime of Roseboro, N. C. Ulmer C. Eaddy of Charlotte will handle hotel reservations and convention registrations Registration will commence at noon Nov. 25, with the afternoon devoted to a directors' meeting and a social hour hosted by C. J. Mabry, president, and R. L. Simpson, manager of Motion Picture Advertising Service Co. Among the features over the three-day period are showmanship clinics, forums on advertising and concessions and activities of drive-in and small indoor theatres. Prominent speakers, to be announced at a later date, will address the delegates. Climaxing the three-day affair will be the annual president's banquet and dance in the hotel ballroom. Eastman Reports 'Best 3 Quarters in History' ROCHESTER, N. Y., Oct. 29.Sales and earnings of Eastman Kodak Co. for the first three quarters of 1956 were the best the company has had for a corresponding period, Thomas J. Hargrave, chairman, and Albert K. Chapman, president, reported yesterday. Consolidated sales of the company's U.S. establishments foi the first three quarters of 1956 ( 36 weeks ending Sept. 2) amounted to $500,699,837, an increase of 2.8 pei cent over the $487,284,358 for the corresponding period in 1955. Net earnings after taxes for the 1956 three quarters were $60,968,204. This was a 5.1 per cent increase ovei the $57,982,467 reported in 1955, the best previous three quarters earnings total. Earnings were equal to $3.32 per share on 18,277,260 common shares outstanding compared with $3.15 per share a year ago. Earnings were 12.2 per cent of sales compared with 11.9 per cent in the corresponding 1955 three quarters. Pre-tax earnings were $132,278,597, an increase of 3.7 per cent over the $127,582,516 for the first three quarters of 1955. ( Continued from page 1 ) that while not all pictures are projected at 1.85 to 1, wide-screen product is being photographically composed at that ratio. You could feel perfectly at ease in informing members that nonanamorphic, wide-screen pictures can be tied off at 1.85 to 1. "In cases where keystone is a part and parcel of the projection installation, compensating masking adjustment and aperture filing will cut that ratio down a small amount, but in all cases, the projected picture will be much more pleasing if we start at the same ratio point in the projector head. That will also cut down five or six sets of apertures," Chamberlin said. Closer to Where It Should Be' The Hollywood projectionist said that the anamorphic CinemaScope ratio is closer to where it should have been all along. "Now that most CinemaScope prints have mag-optical tracks, the actual photographic ratio ends up on the film at 2.34 to 1. With proper masking our projected CinemaScope picture should be closer to 2.25 to 1. "I think we will agree that this ratio change will contribute materially to eliminating the viewed through a mail-slot effect on many CinemaScope presentations," he said. Chamberlin also mentioned other propection equipment in which standardization and modernization are taking place, among them being a new approach to "heat-on-film" problems, new carbons, aperatures, light level, excessive grain and definition in prints. Deluxe Film Lab Signs New Pact with Local A two-year contract has been signed between IATSE Local H-63 and Deluxe Film Laboratory, granting salary increases from $4.00 to $7.00, depending on job classifications, union officials have announced. The contract is retroactive to Oct. 1. The contract, approved by the executive board of the union and ratified by the local membership also reclassified several jobs into higher labor grades, increasing the minimum scales and providing increases for those holding the positions. Three weeks vacations were granted for employees with over 12 years of service. Ginger Rogers Forms Lincoln Productions HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 29.-Ginger Rogers has formed her own company, Lincoln Productions, to produce films for theatrical and television release. Stevens Favors 'Giant' In 1.66 to 1 Ratio "Giant" should be projen the aspect ratio of 1.66 to 1 der that "its pictorial and ei impact may not be reduced," Stevens, producer of the Warner Brothers release, sa; ! wire to the International Alii ■ Theatrical Stage Employees. Stevens took exception to ment by Merle Chamberlin, < projection at M-G-M studio had said that the aspect r wide-screen pictures seems approaching standardization i to 1. The producer said, "I si belief that the motion picture capitalize on the resource of height." McKeesport Manaq Ask City Tax Remo McKEESPORT, Pa., Oct. 29. Fordan, manager of Stanley V Memorial and Victor Theatn William Weiss, operating the and Victor, have made a forrr test to the City Council that the community's five per cent ment tax is lifted next year, it necessary to place two of the I on partial operation or close th tirely. The exhibitors, in their r. pointed out that the Federal ( ment has removed taxes on tic 90 cents and less; that neig!' Clairton removed the amusem last year, and that Duquesne tax. NEW YORK THEAl ( — RADIO CITY MUSIC Hi Rockefeller Center "TEA AND SYMPATH starring DEBORAH KERR • JOHN KEF In CinemaScope and Metrocele. An M-G-M Picture and SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENT! 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