Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1956)

inesday, November 14, 1956 Motion Picture Daily utional VeSelling ALT DISNEY, with his brain I children, Mickey Mouse, Snow e, the Seven Dwarfs, the Three Pigs, Donald Duck and all the s, appear on the full-color front of "The Saturday Evening Nov. 17 issue. The cover inces an eight-part article titled Dad, Walt Disney." It was writ•y his youngest daughter, Diane, Pete Martin, motion picture edif the "Post." worries at a good time for theatre rs, for during the appearance e article, two of Walt Disney's will be released, "Secrets of and "Westwood Ho! The hall Scott in the November of "Cosmopolitan," when reag "The Best Things in Life Are Jjj' says "The high-hearted twen. nd the rather lower-keyed early .its are the background for this „ filled saga of the great tune j team of De Sylva, Brown and i erson. The tunes are neat." • le Ten Commandments," report c don picture editors of "Life" .f|! Nov. 12 issue, "is a gigantean frj of spectacles showing the es God wrought, the fleeing Jews ng over the desert, and the analia before the Golden Calf. T gh point is the solemn moment the fiery finger of God enscribes en Commandments on the tab: red granite." Fe" tells their pictorial story iljluously. The highlight scenes of 1m are reproduced in striking photos on a two-page spread, n single pages. Miller reports in the November of "Seventeen" that "Port V is an entertaining thriller i Moroccan locale. His review itrated with a photo made on n. coverage of motion pictures ig increased in "McCall's." The iber issue has two articles on jj^hich are now in release. of the pictorial stories reports Charlton Heston and his threes-old son, Fraser, both played rt of Moses in "The Ten Comments." • : Wilson has written an amusrsonality story on Glenn Ford, jjf "Teahouse of the August i for the Nov. 18 issue of can Weekly." Glenn has been J to Eleanor Powell, the danr 13 years. She calls him "my x and interesting husband." * k Nichols has written an inig profile of Carroll Baker, star iby Doll," for the November f "Coronet." WALTER HAAS M. P. DAILY picture THE PRESENTATION, by Chet Ross, head of Bonded Storage and executive vicepresident of National Film Service, at the latter's luncheon yesterday. With him as he told about "Film Row of 1957": Tom Wise of the Well Street Journal; Bob Adleman, public relations counsel; Ira Stevens, NFS general manager; and George Glazer, public relations director. One Master Exchange for NFS List's Report ( Continued from page 1 ) operations of Gera Corp. for the nine months rather than for the period after its acquisition as a subsidiary on May 9, 1956. After adjustment for special nonrecurring items, the net income for the 1955 period was $1,473,722. Based on the shares outstanding at the end of each of the periods, the proforma earnings per share for the first nine months of 1956 amounted to 47.6 cents compared to 51.6 cents before special items and 45.8 cents after special items for the first nine months of 1955. Two Items Excepted These figures do not reflect the sale of one non-operating property and a contract to sell and lease back one operating property, both of which occurred at periods subsequent to Sept. 30, 1956. ( Continued ize that the film industry, just like other businesses, must streamline, be fluid and present an appearance commensurate with its importance to the nation's economy." He pointed out that while every customer of NFS has shaved distribution costs at least 10 per cent, the consolidated operation "should lead to even greater economv in addition to the money saved in leases, personnel losses, and other overhead expenses which the distributors will no longer have to bear." Ross said that NFS has plans to expand this operation of joint backroom work to other exchange cities sometime in the future. He said that options have been acquired by NFS in three other cities on land to construct a building and that NFS is currently constructing a film and office depot in Atlanta and Denver. Will Serve 11 Companies In discussing the joint operation, Ross said that NFS in New Haven will handle the backroom work for Allied Artists, Buena Vista, Columbia, M-G-M, Paramount, Republic, RKO Radio Pictures, 20th Century-Fox, United Artists, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros., in the new exchange building. He said that these companies will initially have two big savings—in rent and by entering into five year leases instead of long term leases. Ross said that the construction of the New Haven exchange building was brought about by Connecticut's plan to build the State Thruway through the present Film Row. The depot will be in a 35,000 square foot, two-story, air conditioned building, in Hamden, Conn. Eight thousand square feet on the first floor has been set aside for offices, while the remaining space will be occupied by the NFS shipping and handling facilities. "This the first time that film handling will be done by one organization in a single, modern building for all major distribution companies," Ross said. NFS currently handles the back from page 1 ) room work for UA, RKO and Buena Vista in all 33 exchanges; Republic, 19; Allied Artists, 10; Paramount, seven; Warner Bros., three; Columbia, three; Universal, three; Loew's, two, and 20th-Fox, one. The board of directors and stockholders of National Film Service, will meet Nov. 16-18 at the Sheraton Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, it was announced yesterday. Kochevety Services CHICAGO,, Nov. 13.— Burial services were held today for Louis Kochevety at the Grace Methodist Church, South Bend, Ind. Kochevety died in St. Luke's Hospital here. He was the owner of several theatres in Indiana, including the Colfax and A-l in South Bend; the Tivoli and Northside at Miswauka; the Moonlight DriveIn, South Bend, and the Starlite in Osceola, Ind. A Universal-International Picture . . . available dec. 25th