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 #:
000305
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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STILL MORE FACTS In attempting to justify a demand for additional payment for actors on post1948 pictures released to television, the Screen Actors Guild stated in it recent ''white paper," sent to Guild members: "The Guild has collected additional compensation for actors in hundreds of theatrical pictures released to television and there has been widespread acceptance of this principle. Now, suddenly the producers have adamantly refused to recognize any rights on the part of actors ..." The clear implication of the above quoted paragraph is that the major companies have made payments on post1948 pictures but suddenly have refused to do so. THE FACT IS, NOT A SINGLE CENT HAS BEEN PAID TO ACTORS BY METROGOLDWYN-MAYER, 20TH CENTURY-FOX, PARAMOUNT, WARNER BROS., UNIVERSALINTERNATIONAL OR COLUMBIA ON POST1948 FILMS AND NONE OF THESE MAJOR COMPANIES HAS INDICATED IN ANY WAY AN ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS. The "hundreds of theatrical pictures" referred to by the Guild must be, then, the 203 Republic features and the 84 RKO films sold by these companies before they abandoned film production and went out of business, and some films of Monogram, Allied Artists and independent film producers. The major companies collectively are in no way bound by any concessions an individual company, under economic pressure, saw fit to make. Their position has been clear and consistent since 1948. They have not recognized any right to additional compensation on the part of any employee, guild or union, or any restriction on the producers' right to release their pictures to television or any other medium. Further, major companies do not accept the Guild's contention that actors are in a unique position and therefore entitled to additional payments which other employees could not claim. The other crafts and guilds have made clear their intention to "get their share" if any additional payment of any kind is made for television exhibition of theatrical films. THE COMPANIES' POLICY ON ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS IS CLEAR-CUT, UNEQUIVOCAL AND IDENTICAL FOR EVERYBODY. This ad is one of a series placed as an industry service by the Association of Motion Picture Producers.