Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1959)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1959
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00029
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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85, NO. 4 MOTION PICTURE DAILY NEW YORK, U.S.A., THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959 TEN CENTS th Birthday ukor Voices itonfidence in ilms' Future eran Para. Executive rts 56th Industry Year Frts , By dolph Zukor SAMUEL D. BERNS lOLLYWOOD, Jan. 7. Adolph :or, chairman of the board of ParaInt, and an industry pioneer, greeted his 86th birthday today in his office at the company's studio, still full of enthusiasm and confident as ever of the motion picture's certainty of a prominent place in the entertainment world of the future. Zukor is here on his annual ter visit to the studio and was ( Continued on page 3 ) ra. Acquires Total lemeter Ownership From THE DAILY Bureau jlOLLYWOOD, Jan 7.-Corporate ul rrangement of the International emeter Corp. and total acquisition the Telemeter pay-as-you-see TV em by Paramount Pictures were ounced here today by Barney Baln, Paramount president, nternational Telemeter, which ( Continued on page 6) Y. Area Meeting to ear ACE Plans Jan. 13 ill exhibitors in the New York hange area have beencalled to a -ting Jan. 13, at the Astor Hotel a report on the development of American Congress of Exhibitors. Hans and an agenda for the meet( Continued on page 6 ) HIT PICTURES OF 1958 Quigley Publications herewith presents its annual list of the top grossing pictures of 1958, arranged alphabetically by title and based on dollar grosses for the United States and Canada for the year. THF RIG COUNTRY 1 nC Dlw vvvli 1 IV 1 \j rifi cci nit sot o THF RRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI InC D ix 1 Ls w G wli InC l\l VCIV IWVnl ^* A T Ail A MAT TIKI f\ /*N f" CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF MGM DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER MGM A FAREWELL TO ARMS 20th-Fox HOUSEBOAT Paramount INDISCREET Warner Bros. THE LONG, HOT SUMMER 20th-Fox NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS Warner Bros. OLD YELLER Buena Vista PEYTON PLACE 20th-Fox RAINTREE COUNTY MGM SAYONARA Warner Bros. SOUTH PACIFIC Magna, 20th-Fox THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Paramount THE VIKINGS United Artists WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION United Artists THE YOUNG LIONS 20th-Fox LEVISION TODAY-page 6 Harling Mapping Plans For Toll-TV Fight Philip F. Harling, chairman of the Theatre Owners of America's PayTV Committee, is in Washington, D.C., today from New York to confer with attorneys on forthcoming Congressional hearings on toll-TV. He is conferring with Marcus Cohen, Washington attorney retained by his committee, to prepare briefs and strategy for the anticipated hearings. Harling said that plans will also be drafted to call upon individual grassroots exhibitors to testify at the hearings on the necessity of banning all forms of pay-TV— both by cable as (Continued on page 6) Agree on Italian Pact; Signing Is Tomorrow With negotiations completed on the new Italian film agreement, directors of the Motion Picture Export Assn. received and reportedly approved the document at a meeting yesterday. Signing is scheduled for tomorrow when Eric Johnston, MPEA president, will come here from Washington for the purpose. Dr. Eitel Monaco, president of ANICA, and Ehidio Ariosto, Italian undersecretary for show business, who negotiated the pact with MPEA officials here, will attend a press conference with Johnston tomorrow fol( Continued on page 6) Shows Rise Disney Annual Net Profit Is $3,865,473 Total Gross Income for Year Up $12,799,020 Special to THE DAILY BURBANK, Cal., Jan. 7.-Consolidated net profit of Walt Disney Productions and domestic subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended Sept. 27, 1958, was $3,865,473, equal to $2.51 per share on the 1,537,054 common shares outstanding, Roy O. Disney, president of the company, said today in his annual report to shareholders. This compares with the previous year's net income of $3,649,359, equal t| $2.44 per share on the 1,494,041 shares ontstanding on Sept. 28, 1957 Provision for income taxes in 1958 fiscal year was $3,925,000 compared with $3,850,000 last year. The company paid cash dividends of 40 cents per share plus 3 per cent in stock during the year. "It is the (Continued on page 2) Say Eisenhower Backs Film Deal with Soviet From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Export Association, and George V. Allen, director of the United States Information Agency, reported to President Eisenhower today on recent developments in the State Department (Continued on page 2) CTDoimell Lauds ACE; Praises Spyros Skouras Special to THE DAILY DALLAS, Jan. 7. Robert J. O'Donnell, vice-president and general manager of the Interstate Circuit, in an eloquent treatise on the American Congress of Exhibitors met with an enthusiastic response from the 265 exhibitors representing over 900 theatres in Texas who gathered at a brunch session today at the Variety Club in the Hotel Adolphus. In paying tribute of the birth of ACE, O'Donnell said, "Nothing so ( Continued on page 6)