Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1959)

Page scan 000157 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1959
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000157
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:
May 30, 2024
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MOTION PICTURE DAILY NEW YORK, U.S.A., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1959 TEN CENTS for Reply Soon ure Films r Military h Rapidity jiell Explains Plan vnge Release Method Tors and distributors will coivith the Armed Forces to : that all films will be availnlitary theatres just as soon lear commercial theatres unirogram developed by TheaIrs of America to change the nethod of releasing films to .rv. This was revealed at the ' by Robert J. O'Donnell, of the TOA Army-Navy preommittee, in giving details mmittee's proposals, lell, the members of his com^ontinued on page 7) I May Roadshow heti' 'Cordura' | 3y FLOYD STONE Picture on Page 3) :rs William Goetz and Vidor, and Columbia vicePaul Lazarus, Jr., talked to Friday over luncheon in any's board room. The submany, but the emphasis ^oetz's "They Came to Corontinued on page 3) jj ACE Meeting for Tomorrow prciul to THE DAILY LE, Feb. 1.— Dwight Sprachittle, and Joe Rosenfield of co-chairmen of the American of Exhibitors in the Seattle area, will sponsor a meeting Continued on page 1 ) on page 2 gpisfofi Today Paramount Studio to Operate 'At Capacity'; Five Shooting Now, Plan to Continue Pace From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 1.— Paramount, which has five pictures shooting on the lot at the present time, plans to back them up with a continuing program that will keep studio facilities operating at capacity, studio officials said at the weekend. The schedule calls for at least three and as many as five films to be before the cameras throughout the first six months of the year, with overlapping start dates insuring against slack. Plans for the latter pari of the year envision continuation of this pace, it was stated. Currently shooting are "One-Eyed Jacks," "Don't Give Up the Ship," "But Not for Me," "Heller with a Gun," and "The Jayhawkers." Hal Wallis plans to start "Career" on Feb. 16, and Alfred Hitchcock has set a tentative April 15 date for "No Bail for the Judge." A Jerry Lewis picture is set for spring, and Carlo Ponti and Marcello Girosi will begin "Maria I" (tentative title) as soon as "Heller with a Gun" winds up shooting. Scheduled to start in September are "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "The Rat Race." Meanwhile two films are to be shot abroad this year, "Bay of Naples" in Italy and "The Mountain Is Young" in Nepal. German Catholic Unit Hits Morals of Films Special to THE DAILY DUESSELDORF, Germany, Jan. 26 (By Air Mail). -The German Catholic Film Council said the moral standard of motion pictures in 1958 was lower than ever before. It said that only 46 out of 100 films reviewed were "worth seeing." It advised against 41 movies ( Continued on page 7 ) '(/' Schedules Nine Regional Sales Meets The four regional sales managers of Universal Pictures will today start a series of nine regional sales meetings with the first three taking place in Dallas, Detroit and Philadelphia, to be followed by meetings Thursday in San Francisco, St. Louis, Chicago and Boston, and next Monday in Minne(Continued on page 1) NSS Appoints Welsh To Special Division Charles L. Welsh has been appointed home office sales representative for the special films division of National Screen Service, it was announced at the weekend by Burton E. Robbins, ( Continued on page 2 ) Johnston Sets Meets On Problems in Japan Eric Johnston's five-week tour of the Far East, on which the Motion Picture Export Ass'n. head departs from here Wednesday, is especially timely insofar as Japan is concerned, for it comes as (Continued on page 3) REVIEW: The Journey Alby Production — M-G-M on page 11 Anatole Litvak's "The Journey" is a melodrama that at the same time possesses qualities that are novel as well as others that are conventional. The two are shrewdly combined to give this Metrocolor film a strong start at the box office which will be further augmented by the popularity of its two starsDeborah Kerr and Yul Brynner, who co-starred once before in "The King And I." What is especially novel about the picture is the background of the ( Continued on page 1) In New York ACE 'Action' Meet Set for Mid-February Executive, All Six Project Groups Launch Program Full membership meetings of the executive committee of the American Congress of Exhibitors and the six committees assigned to its program projects will meet here in about two weeks to activate major phases of the program. Uppermost are meetings of ACE representatives with heads of production-distribution companies and possible early sessions with Congressional groups or other Federal government units. In addition, first steps to get ACE's other projects into being are scheduled to be taken. With ACE's planning and organiz( Continued on page 7 ) SEP Editorial Asks, 'Why Not Try Pay TV?' "Why not let pay-TV have a trial run?" the Saturday Evening Post asks editorially in its Jan. 31 issue. The editorial reviews developments on pay TV in Washington during the past year, culminating in the delays ( Continued on page 3 ) See No Chance of Joint Allied-TOA Meet Tifl '61 The National Association of Concessionaires will meet with Theatre Owners of America in a joint convention and trade show in Chicago next fall and with Allied States in the same city next year. TOA's 1960 convention will be in Los Angeles. Allied presently is completing arrangements for a joint conventional and drive-in theatre meeting in Milwaukee next winter. In consequence of the above arrangements, there now is no likelihood of a joint Allied-TOA-NAC convention and trade show, such as has been discussed for several years past, before 1961 at the earliest.