Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1960)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1960
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00039
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 (L. 87, NO. 5 NEW YORK, U.S.A., FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1960 TEN CENTS i nfeld Pledges ox Will Have "BECAUSE THEY'RE YOUNG," L<l-Pub Tools fo Do Job' nuck Is Also Speaker at \'»th Anniversary Meeting (Pictures on page 3) advertising, publicity, exploitation promotional plans for 20th Cen-Fox's $70,000,000 production ?dule through September were lined at the company's sales conation here yesterday by Charles field vice-president. He assured the ich managers and regional adverng-publicity directors, assembled the 45th anniversary sales meet, t they would have "enough tools .do the job." ,rhe convention also heard Darryl buck in a special address to de,be the line-up of top budget picl?s he plans to deliver in 1960. .^infeld laid particular stress on the [.ision to allocate $500,000 for telejon campaigns on three films spef -ally tailored for family audience: 3g of Flanders," "Masters of die pgo Jungle," and "Sink the BisIrck." He further pointed out that ( Continued on page 3) Her Asks Showmen d in Production "heatre exhibitors and company s personnel of 20th Century-Fox ■e urged last night to take a more ortant part in helping the studio provide you with a salable comdity." The invitation was extended Buddy Adler, 20th-Fox executive d of production, at a dinner at the oy Hilton Hotel attended by leadexhibitors from all over the coun(Continued on page 3) idio 'Spectacular' > Promote Col. 'Lady' i unique "radio spectacular" will beamed into 32 major markets >ughout the country to promote ho Was That Lady?", an Ansark)rge Sidney Production for ColumPictures release, it was announced rerday by Robert S. Ferguson, na(Continued on page 6) COLUMBIA'S BIG EASTER ATTRACTION GETS THE BIGGEST MERCHANDISING KICKOFF IN HISTORY! WATCH THE DICK CLARK SHOW TOMORROW NIGHT 7:30 P. M. est. OVER THE ABC-TV NETWORK! Advt. Classification Gets Hearing's Backing Expressions strongly favoring statutory film classifications, as to adult and juvenile attendance, marked a meeting at the Association of the Bar Building here yesterday of the N. Y. State Joint Legislative Committee on the Publication and Dissemination of Offensive and Obscene Material with the Committee of Religious Leaders of the City of New York, representing [Continued on page 2) Myers Rallies Allied To Fight New Wage law From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Abram F. Myers, Allied States chairman and general counsel, today called upon Allied members to cooperate fully with Compo, national Allied, regional associations and committees in opposing the proposed new Federal minimum wage bill, which he termed a "threat to all theatres." He said he was especially concerned with some exhibitors in areas not now affected by state law to bow (Continued on page 6) REVIEW: Scent of Mystery Michael Todd, Jr. — Todd Camera 70mm — Smell-O-Vision! Chicago, Jan. 7 Michael Todd Jr.'s infant of the motion picture and chemical laboratories, Smell-O-Vision, marks a curious point of departure for the industry. With a Todd seal on it, "Scent of Mystery" likelv will sell as heavily as it smells, but beyond this film, which is the first one to emplov scents intrinsic to the story being told on the screen, it is difficult to determine (Continued on page 6) Watkins Reports: BFPA Scores Angel, Woolf Sales to TV Producer Unit Hits Action Reaffirms Support of FIDO By WILLIAM PAY LONDON, Jan. 7. The British Film Producers Assn. today came out strongly in condemnation of the sale by two of its members, producers Major Daniel Angel and John Woolf, of some 55 old British pictures to a television distributor. BFPA thereby joined in the growing industry denunciation of the transaction. At a press conference here today Arthur Watkins, BFPA president, said that his organization "strongly deprecated and disassociated itself entirely" from the TV sale. At the same time BFPA wishes to "reaffirm its full confidence in the Film Industry Defense Organization and will continue maximum support," he added. Angel and Woolf defended sale of the films to Associated Rediffusion at a meeting of the BFPA executive (Continued on page 6) 'Nurse' Tops U.K. Grossers for '59 By PETER BURNUP LONDON, Jan. 7.-"Carry On Nurse," a British comedy made on a modest budget and with no top star names in its cast, was the biggest money-making picture of 1959 in Great Britain, it was revealed today in the annual box office survey made by Quigley Publications. At the same ( Continued on page 2 ) Minimum Pay Changes To Hit All: McCarthy All motion picture theatres with employees receiving less than $1 an hour would be affected by passage of S1046, the Kennedy-Morse minimum wage bill, Charles E. McCarthy, executive director of Compo, said yesterday. "There appears to be a misunder(Continued on page 6)