Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jul-Sep 1960
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00023
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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VOL. 88, NO. 3 MOTION PICTURE DAILY NEW YORK, U.S.A., WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1960 TEN CENTS M"G"M SIdtGS 15 Compet't'on Un'ted Kingdom TO A Says: July Is Best Month in '60 For Product Find August Close Behind: But Total for Year 'Lean' July will be the biggest month thus far this year for the industry in terms of both quantity and quality of product, and August will not be far behind. This is the result of a round-up report by Theatre Owners of America published in its current bulletin released yesterday. According to presently available information, however, September will slide off again, the TOA report notes. The TOA check with the major (Continued on page 2) Republic Earnings Top Million in First Half From THE DAILY Bureau LOS ANGELES, July 5-Republic Corp. net income for the 26 weeks ending April 30, rose to $1,003,077, or 50 cents a share on the 2,004,190 shares outstanding after $1,250,000 in federal taxes and before payment of $200,000 for preferred stock dividends. This is nearly double net earn(Continued on page 4) Greenville, S.C., Can I Have Sunday Films Special to THE DAILY GREENVILLE, S. C, July 5.-Area theatre operators are jubilant over the announcement that a boost in population as reflected in the 1960 census figures will allow Sunday movies to be shown in the city of Greenville. However, informed legal sources (Continued on page 7) TELEVISION TOD AY -page 6 In Next 6 Months Rank, Telemeter Race For Pay-TV in Britain Fifteen top pictures have been definitely scheduled for production by M-G-M within the next six months to be released during the fiscal year starting Sept. 1, Joseph R. Vogel, president, announced here yesterday. Five "super" films are included in the schedule for that period, he added. Vogel made the announcement following meetings at the Culver City studios with Sol C. Siegel, studio head, and the executive and production staffs. The "super" films include "Cimar( Continued on page 4 ) Novins Demonstrates Wired System; Rank Signs with Rediffusion on Patents By WILLIAM PAY LONDON, July 5.— A race to be the first with an operating pay television system in the United Kingdom shaped up here at the weekend with a demonstration of its system for the press by Paramount's Telemeter and with the an nouncement by the Rank Organisation Joseph R. Vogel Business Big for July 4th Weekend business around Times in local neighborhoods, and Maloney Resigns M-G-M Central Sales Post John J. Maloney, industry veteran and Central Division sales manager for M-G-M since 1943, has resigned that post, effective July 11. Associated with M-G-M since the (Continued on page 4) Theatre Square elsewhere around the country received a boost over the Independence Day weekend holiday period, a check revealed yesterday. "The Apartment" was one of the most successful examples. The United Artists release grossed $15,315 at the Plaza and $28,390 at the Astor for the Friday through Monday period. "Strangers When We Meet" rolled up (Continued on page 7) that it had concluded an agreement with Rediffusion, Ltd., for the development and promotion of pay television when it is authorized here or overseas. Concluding two weeks of private showings for industry executives, Louis Novins, president of International Telemeter, demonstrated an Anglicized version of his company's ( Continued on page 2 ) Hot Losing Theatre, Gaining a Hotel you're not gaining a REVIEW: It Started In Naples Shavelson-Rose Prod. — Paramount — VistaVision The writer-producer-director team of Mel Shavelson and Jack Rose, responsible for such good pictures as "Houseboat" and "The Five Pennies," went with Clark Gable and Sophia Loren to Rome, Naples and Capri for "It Started in Naples." The result is a droll film in VistaVision and Technicolor, fortunate to have star names. In addition it boasts a nine-year-old Italian scamp— he smokes, drinks anything but what's good for him and mouths delirious American slang— who outplays (Continued on page 4) "Cheer up, movie fans; losing a theatre, you're hotel!" This is the theme being promulgated by Loew's Theatres, Inc., following adverse comment received when it announced it was razing two theatres which would be replaced by a hotel and an apartment house here. Some writers concluded that the two inci( Continued on page 4 ) W. B. Names Livingston Central Div. Sales Head Grover Livingston, central division sales manager for Warner Rrothers, has been appointed western division sales manager, succeeding Fred Greenberg, it has been announced by Charles Boasberg, general sales manager. Greenberg recently announced (Continued, on page 4) LABORATORIES, INC. NEW YORK AND HOLLYWOOD Complete facilities for every film need in black and white or color