Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1960
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000283
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 88, NO. 103 NEW YORK, U.S.A., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1960 TEN CENTS llgest DeaV >0 Post-'48 M. Films to BS Stations >en Gems Leases Pack ,,275 to Five Outlets F 39 W8Gk Chqrqes Bold Departure from Moral Standards N.tX$3,732,729 Bishops Ask Protest Vs. Offensive Films Catholic Group Calls for Reform Of 'Presently Ineffective' PCA & By JAMES D. IVERS sen Gems, television subsidiary dumbia Pictures, has leased a of 200 post-1948 Columbia es to each of the five owned operated Columbia Broadcasting p-n television stations, it was an(•ed yesterday. li deal, explained at a press conice presided over by Jerome us, vice-president and general ' Iger of Screen Gems, and Paul _ius, vice-president of Columbia a ires, actually includes 275 feature :es, the remaining 75 being a i of important pre-1948 Univerternational releases, the distri(Continued on page 9) . Meeting Delayed; Gems' Spin-Off e annual stockholders meeting of Ttnbia Pictures Corporation which * been scheduled for Dec. 27 will *'p\<\ instead on Jan. 17 at the } Jiany's home office, it was anced yesterday. Stockholders of 'd on Dec. 20 will be eligible to instead of the previous record of Nov. 29. though the company announcegave no reason for the postment, rumors spread in Wall lit Monday and yesterday that ' (Continued on page 2) wM Board Declares ' ridend of 40 Cents 4 regular quarterly dividend of 40 *] ; per share, payable on Jan. 13, ty' , to stockholders of record Dec. f < I960, was declared yesterday by H board of directors of Metro-Gold*n-Mayer, Inc. lis is the second dividend pay(Continued on page 2) EV/S/ON TODAY p. 10 it i #, « i Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation yesterday" reported consolidated earnings of $3,732,729 for the 39 weeks ended Sept. 24, 1960. No earnings from the studio land sale contract are included in this figure. This amounted to $1.57 per share on the 2,383,286 shares of common stock in the hands of the public, as compared with earnings for the 39 (Continued on page 9) Johnston Anniversary Dinner April 10, Here The dinner being sponsored by the Council of Motion Picture Organizations in observance of Eric Johnston's 15th anniversary as president of the Motion Picture Association o f America will be held April 10 in the Grand ballroom of the Waldorf Ast o r i a Hotel here, it was announced yesterday by Russell Downing, chairman o f the general dinner committee. The announcement followed a meeting of the dinner's arrangements committee in Downing's office. Further preliminary plans for the affair were discussed by the committee, which consists of Mort Sunshine, (Continued on page 4) From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-A Catholic bishops' committee charged today that Hollywood in the past year had made a "bold and unprecedented departure" from previously accepted moral standards in motion pictures. y The bishops urged a "national protest" by Catholics in view of the "National crisis" created by o b j ectionable films, and called for reform of the "presently ineffective" Hollywood Production Code administration. The prelates cited figures of the Legion of Decency, the Catholic organization which morally evaluates films, showing that objectionable films (Continued on page 4) Eric Johnston MPAA Disagrees with Bishops' Film Views From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. The Motion Picture Association of America today took exception to the Catholic Bishops Committee's conclusion based on the annual report of the Legion of Decency. The MPAA statement said: "We do not agree that Hollywood has made a 'bold and unprecedented' departure from previously accepted ( Continued on page 4 ) 20th-Fox Sets Four Releases for December 20th Century-Fox will release four CinemaScope-De Luxe Color attractions in December, the company announced yesterday. They are: "Esther and the King"; "Flaming Star," which will be the Christmas attraction at the Paramount Theatre; "The Wizard of Baghdad," and "Legions of the Nile." Msgr. T. F. Little Say Syst s Transistorized Cinerama Sound em Achieves New Fidelity Level Disney Loss for '60 Put at $1,350,000 From THE DAILY Bureau LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29. Walt Disney Productions expects to report a net loss of about $1,350,000 for the fiscal year ended Oct. 1, I960, Roy D. Disney, president, said in a letter to stockholders. The loss, the letter explained, resulted from writing down the value (Continued on page 2) By SIDNEY RECHETNIK An "important new movement in the history of Cinerama"-the development of a completely transistorized Cinerama sound system and the accompanying "added plus" of a "new sound" that is "different in manner and better than anything ever heard be fore," was announced yesterday by Nicolas Reisini, president of Cinerama, Inc. Reisini, who spoke at a press luncheon at the Savoy-Hilton Hotel here, said that the aim of Cinerama when it was introduced in 1952 was to "bring to the human being a sound as near as possible to nature." The company has never rested on its achieved success of eight years ago, but continued its experiments to produce a better sound system, claimed Reisini. The Cinerama head likened the ef(Continued on page 3) Para. Studio Sets Mark For a Holiday Season From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 29. The Paramount studio has reached its heaviest holiday-season production peak in recent company history, with a total of six feature films before the cameras and a seventh to roll on Dec. 12. With the start of filming on (Continued on page 3)