Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

nesday, November 23, 1960 Motion Picture Daily TdSSMif T°*M /ho's Where around the yy CIRCUIT obert Norvet, formerly director of vision film production at the „M studios in Hollywood, has "»d the CBS Television Network e as director of film production -ations. He will be in charge of below-the-line areas of film protion and will coordinate produccurrently under way at the Paraint studios, MGM and General /ice Studios. □ Villiam Dalton, president of TyInc. and the American Rayon itute, has been named chief extive of National Community Teleon Association, Inc., effective Jan. vJCTA is the trade association for lmunity antenna television sys,s, a special service organization ch provides television reception communities out of range of comrcial video stations. □ Uan D. Courtney has been apnted vice-president, national sales, MCA TV Ltd., effective tomorf it was announced by David ' Werblin, president. Courtney nes to MCA TV from the National .adcasting Company, where he held post of vice-president, program ninistration, for the NBC television work. omefco In Deal for ancouver TV Station Special to THE DAILY MIAMI, Nov. 22.-Wometco Enter;ses Inc., announced it has comited negotiations for the purchase television station KVOS on the jiadian American border serving mcouver, Canada, and northwestern ashington. The purchase is subject wng other things, to the approval the Federal Communications Common and a ruling from the Internal :venue Service. Buying All Assets All the television assets of KVOS ,d KVOS, Ltd., are being sold to 'ometco. KVOS-TV reported that it trned in excess of $400,000 after xes in 1959, and reports that earngs for 1960 are running at a comirable rate. The transaction is to be an all-cash ansaction, and Wometco is paying 5,000,000 for the assets. The com'any has negotiated a loan with the irudential Insurance Company for 2,000,000 in order to finance this lart of the purchase. No equity fiancing will be necessary, it was ' anounced. with PINKY HERMAN. XF this be a tv trend then let's have more of them. For the dance, I p^otentiary extraordinaire, Fred Astaire; ( "An Evening w*h Fred Astaire); and for song, Harry Belafonte ( New York 19 ) seen last Sunday TVia NBC; for superb acting, also seen Sunday on the !£££y*fl of Fame," ("Macbeth") Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson. Programs like these prove that Television can fill he heart or fiSners wifh the hours of enchantment, so often promised but not often enough delivered. . . . After a week in Gotham TVeep in chaige ot MGM-TV Production Bob Weitman, has returned to Hollywood. And Deejays have been urged by Postmasters to spin the plattei It o ! mv Closer To Xmas." . • written bv Morev Davidson and Sammy One Day Closei lo Amas four-months shooting Watkins to remind tolks to ivian cany sked for the filming of 13 programs "On location" in England, France, Porraga SpaT Denmark and Ireland has been set up to start rolling ne^moirth* Executive scripter Larry Marcus has already gone to Europe where he'll be joined in three weeks by Producer Collier Young anPd Host-Director Join Newland. This ^'^^^J^^ be ABChannelled next season. . . . Seen ast Spring as % Foid Staitime special "Sing Along With Mitch," will alternate every other Fndav Nite S an NBColorcast starting Jan. 27. One of the ablest of the younger Producers Bill Hobin, will head the series which will originate at the NBC ^formerly Warner Bros. Eastern Vitaphone) Studios m Brooklyn^ Marv Marga^t McBride's latest tome "Out of the Air will be published Dec. 2 bv Doubleday. . . . Regularly seen as Host on the CBS TVehicle "The Witness," Verne Collett has been signed as official spokesman (Radio-TV) for American Gas Ass'ts. . Amy Norworth Sow of the cleffer of "Shine On Harvest Moon" after a visit with ?Se Handman returned to her home in Laguna Beach yesterday. £ ddentdly Elvis Presley's great Victor platter of ^-g^^ ard torch "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" will zoom the ditty right back onto the 'hit parade. ... Art Carney will be seen as "Santa Ckus, n Rod Sterling's Yuletide CBSpecial, for the Twilight Zone seiies tn Dec. 23 . . Carol ("West Side Story") Lawrence to guest next Tues. on "The Garry Moore CBShow." About 200 feature films, many in color and most of -Aem produced between 1950-56 by Paramount, Warner Bros., United Artists MGM and RKO have been purchased by RKO-General for presentation over Channel 9 (New Yorkf starting early next year. This fine picture pool stars such names as Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner R ch ard Widmark, Jack Palance, James Cagney, John Barrymore Charlton Hestmi Ray M Hand, Ernest Borgnine, Leslie Howard Doug Fairbanks, " John G^fgud, dina Lollobrfgida, Dick Powell Charles Laughton, ' ' J n „ &To<:p Ferrer Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra. . . . 2Z S3^^S^5«A i "Curtains Up," a 25-minute graphic view of "backstage life among showfolk," depicting rehearsals actual perTormance as well as different phases of presentation involvmg me& of sound and sight. Each of the four partners ^^J^ Productions is 22 years of age; Tommy Finnan HI, Carl A. Gottlieb, In Pe y and Gerald Piano". . . Chantootsie Trude Adams will sing for the BBC (London) Dec. 4 and 11 and then flies home to warble on he "Ed CBSullivan Show," Dec. 18. . . . Associated with talent manaeement and program administration at NBC for the past 5 years forZ Attorney PRalph Mann has resigned to become V.P. at Broadcast Management! Inc. headed by Marvin Josephson. . . Maestro Paul t Taubman will conduct Toscanini^s Orchestra in several Pop Concerts this year, "Symphony of the Air." not for reasons beyond the control of the applicants. It said it would not be in the public interest to extend construction time, since there was apparently no intention to construct in the near future. Among the holders of idle UHF applications denied extension were Malco Theatres, which had UHF permits for Memphis, Tenn., Utica, N. Y., and Oklahoma City, Okla. Rename Freed ( Continued from page 1 ) gram committee chairman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This is the second consecutive year in which Freed will supervise production of the "Oscar" show, which will be carried over the television and radio facilities of the American Broadcasting Company. Won Two 'Oscars' Freed has himself won two "Oscars," and in 1951 was presented an Irving Thalberg Memorial Award for consistently high quality of ^motion picture production. His "Oscar" statuettes were awarded to him as producer of "An American in Paris" in 1951, and "Gigi" in 1958. SAG, AFTRA, Webs ( Continued from page 1 ) can Federation of Television and Radio Artists and negotiators for the television networks, advertising agencies and producers of film and taped tv commercials. Dales described the Saturday meeting as a "make or break meeting." Meet with Federal Mediator Fails to Settle AFTRA Dispute The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists declined to comment yesterday on the intervention yesterday of Commissioner J. R. Mandelbaum of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in the dispute between AFTRA, the Screen Actors Guild and the major television networks. AFTRA and the networks sent representatives to the conference called by Mandelbaum yesterday and which was said to have lasted "less than 10 minutes" with no change in the strike threatened situation reported thereafter. It was said last night that no further meetings with Mandelbaum are scheduled and no formal negotiations of any kind are under way at present between the unions and the networks. FCC Denies Extension Of 24 UHF Permits From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. The Federal Communications Commission has denied extension to 24 holders of construction permits for ultra-highfrequency television stations. The FCC said the permits were not extended, since failure to build was Want Peace, They Said The unions, whose boards of directors have rejected the networks' last proposals and whose memberships have authorized a strike call, said they still would like to avoid a strike, "which no one ever wins," but if in their discretion it is the only course of action left open to them, then the strike call could be issued at any time. Contracts between the unions and the networks expired last week. The major issue in the negotiations which ended the following day was a demand for increased fees to performers working in commercials and tv programs. musifex co 45 w. 45 st. n.y.c. music for tv series — spots ci-6-4061 EAST COAST MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION, EDITORIAL and TECHNICAL SERVICES R FOR BETTER FILMS CREATIVE EDITING AND COMPLETE PERSONAL SUPERVISION JOSEPH JOSEPHSON 45 West 45»h St. Clrtle 6-2146 New York J6