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 #:
000297
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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Motion Picture Daily me Critics television critics and coli of the daily press are of friendly to the medium in they work but they are not eluctant to voice construcIl!\{'iticism or administer chas■t when they feel it necesUtHlsked to vote again this year annual Motion Picture AME poll of television and shows, many of them comments on their view of ytustry. Among them were: t L. Schier, Philadelphia ews: "Steady trend toward lm seems to be stifling depnt of new kinds of tv pro|TV potential hasn't really been but putting reliance in tried jie show business formats is jiging for viewers. This year tp performers are victims of, i, familiarity. Most repulsive Hice: beefing up volume of >cials, interrupting dramatic Ipr commercials." <I Schutz, Redwood City Tri]alif.: "My or nly gripe is the '■>T better transcontinental maToo many coast-to-coast prospecially daytime shows, suflack of adequate transmisw-how or equipment. Many uffer from inadequate camera Unnecessary fake applause '"^e eliminated." To Celebrate Anniversary 30th Anniversary of the Nairoadcasting Co. will be objwith a special four-day conj at the new Americana Hotel ,-Harbour, Miami Beach, Fla., ;2-15. Owners and executives affiliated television and radio ,! stars of the network, and ■jres of NBC and the Radio iBon of America will attend. Ml W. Sarnoff, president of Jwill deliver the convention's 'il address Dec. 13. ring Olympics s-Lux Television Corp. will . half-hour motion picture fea'f the Melbourne Olympic available for distribution to ons, according to Leo Brody, t to the vice-president of sales is-Lux. The ban of newsreel verage by the Olympic Com,does not affect the Trans-Lux Tody said, Official Films Gains In Sales and Earnings Official Films, Inc., and its wholly owned subsidiaries made substantial progress in sales, earnings and financial position in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1956, according to Harold L. Hackett, president, in his annual report to stockholders. Distribution commissions and gross profits from sales in the recent fiscal year aggregated $2,735,590, compared with $1,200,000 in the year ended June 30, 1955. Hackett said pre-tax earnings increased even more, rising to $908,007 from $350,000. The net income of $424,007 was equal to 16 cents per share on 2,613,903 shares of common stock outstanding. 'See /f Wow' Selects Children's Programs "The Secret Life of Danny Kaye" will head a list of programs to be viewed at home and discussed in classrooms throughout the nation by millions of American children, under a new plan of cooperation between the National Education Association and CBS-TV's "See It Now." Announced jointly recently by the show's producers, Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, and NEA executive secretary William G. Carr, the tie-in begins with the Danny Kaye program which "See It Now" broadcasts Sunday, Dec. 2, and extends to later productions. One Man s TViews By Pinky Herman 55 FIVE years ago a bouncy dittv entitled "Luekv Old Sun" (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Dav) came out of nowhere and landed smackdab at the top of the "Hit Parade," Monday night at 10:00 P.M. Frank Capra's documentary telefilm, "Our Mr. Sun," CBSponsored by the Bell Telephone Co., easily should capture top honors both for entertainment and educational qualities. Featuring Eddie Albert as narrator, this scientific expose of man's amazing discoveries about the sun is told in language that is simple and clear enough to be understood by children, and the graphs and charts which depicted the progress of scientists' exhaustive and determined efforts to learn the secrets of the sun without which there can be no life. Frank Capra, whose genius earned for him three Academy Awards in the field of motoin pictures, has spent four years making this new telefilm science series, of which "Our Mr. Sun" is the first, and thanks to his great talent we can all rest a bit easier as regards the future of the earth at least for the next billion vears or so. Paraphrasing the song hit, we might sing, "That Luckv Old Earth" (Just lolls in the Sun's Heavenly ravs.). Incidentally, the Capra film will be screened in Hollywood on Tuesday night as a feature of a banquet at which Consolidated Film Industries will be host to American Society of Cinematographers. ft ft ft Starting tomorrow and thru Monday, Nov. 26, sportscaster Harry Wismer will emulate a whirling dervish. He'll describe the play bv play of the annual Thanksgiving Day classic between the Green Bav Packers and the Detroit Lions for General Tire TVia CBS at 12:00 noon. At 5:50 he'll present his regular "General Sports Time" broadcast over Mutual from Detroit: On Friday, Nov. 23, Harrv flies back to Gotham to narrate a special sports film for RKO and handle his regular "Sports Time" stint that evening: Next day, Saturdav, he flies to Iowa City, la., to do the Notre Dame-Iowa game over Mutual; also on Saturdav his telefilmed "Bethlehem Sports Show" will be seen on NBC-TV at 6:30 P.M.; On Sunday Whiz-mer will be in Chicago for the plav by play description of the Pittsburgh Steelers— Chicago Cardinals gridiron contest over Mutual, and at 6:45 P.M. he'll taxi to Michigan Boulevard and the WGN Studios for his regular "MBSundav Sports Time." Monday morning he'll be back in New York to narrate the INS-Tele-News sports TV Reels, "This Week in Sports" and Bethlehem Sports Time." (and you think you're a busy man). Harry Wismer TOA Groups (Continued from page 1 ) committee represent a cross-section of the TOA membership with each member well versed in the field to which he has been assigned, it was said. These co-chairmen will closely work with the TOA membership. George Kerasotes, chairman, Walter L. Morris, Burton Jones and Art Adamson comprise the Organization and Membership Committee; E. D. Martin, chairman, Nat Williams, Walter Reade, Jr., Albert M. Pickus, Tom Jones and Elmer C. Rhoden-research; Sam Pinanski chairman, and Pat McGee— Council of Motion Picture Organizations; Si Fabian, Mitchell Wolfson and John Balaban-Theatre Television; A. Julian Brylawski and Philip Marling— National Legislation; LaMar Sarra, co-chairman; Robert Bryant, co-chairman, and Hulda McGinn-State tk Local Legislation; H. F. Kincey— Film Reviewing; Duncan Kennedy and Philip Harling-Labor Relations. Five for Drive-ins Also, Horace Dennings, chairman. Michael Redstone, Albert Forman, Jack Braunagel and Douglas AmosDrive-in Theatres; Henry Anderson, and J. J. Rosenfield-Building & Safety Codes; Bert Nathan, chairman, B. S. Conviser, Fred A. Danz, Sylvan Myers and J. C. Hoover-Concessions; Joseph J. Zaro, co-chairman, Lucien E. Pope, and Edwin Gage, co-chairman—Theatre Equipment & Accessories; John W. Keiler II, Donald Schine, Emil Bernstecker, Ralph E. McClanahan and Thornton Sargent —Public Relations; Arthur H. Lockwood, chairman, Gene Lutes, Jack Wallens, Morton C. Tune, and Morton Thalhimer— Insurance. Rhoden a Chairman Also, Herman M. Levy— Legal Advisory; Elmer C. Rhoden, chairman, Arthur Lockwood, Robert J. (Bob) O'Donnell, Nathan Grere, J. B. Schuyler and Herman Hunt— Star or the Year Award; Sam Pinanski, chairman, Walter Reade, Jr., Elmer C. Rhoden, Si Fabian, E. D. Martin, Morton Thalhimer Sr., and Myron N. Blank-Representatives to COMPO Executive Committee; Sam Rosen, chairman, Henry G. Plitte, L. J. Williams, Hal Barnes, James W. Gaylord, Andrew J. Sullivan Conrad Brady, Dave Jones, Seymour L. Morris, and M. B. Smith— Showmanship Committee; Fred A. Danz, Joseph C. Emma, Arthur Rosen, C. L. Patrick, Paul L. Krueger and John H. Rowley— President's Host Committee. Committee for Stamp Plan Also, Walter L. Morris, chairman, David Kamskv and Harold FieldStamp Plan Committee; Walter Reade, Jr., chairman, Myron N. Blank, E. D. Martin, Marvin Goldman, Walter L. Morris and Carl E. Anderson — Foreign Film; Morton Thalhimer Sr., chairman, and Philip Harling— Real Estate, Tax & Evaluation Committee.