Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1947)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Mar-Apr 1947
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1947)
Leaf #:
000707
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:
Founded in 1915 by a Chicago printing company as a regional trade paper for Midwest exhibitors. In 1916, editor Martin Quigley bought out the owners, and over the next 15 years, he grew EXHIBITORS HERALD into one of the most important national, weekly trade papers in the film business. Quigley acquired MOTOGRAPHY in 1917 and MOVING PICTURE WORLD in 1927. In 1930, he acquired MOTION PICTURE NEWS and the new 'consolidated' publication became MOTION PICTURE HERALD. From the pulpit of his editorial page, Quigley preached the need to improve the motion picture industry and improve the quality of the films. He skillfully served as a mediator in disputes -- between distributors and exhibitors, between the film industry and the Catholic Church (Quigley was one of the architects of the Production Code). Quigley claimed that EXHIBITORS HERALD represented the 'independent exhibitor' and sections like 'What the Picture Did for Me?' certainly provided a forum for theater owners. But plenty of exhibitors viewed Quigley as a servant to the studios and large theater chains. In response, publications such as SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, INDEPENDENT EXHIBITORS FILM BULLETIN, HARRISON'S REPORTS, and BOX OFFICE were either formed or grew significantly in the years following Quigley's brief moment of consolidation in 1930. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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HENRY RANDEL has been named Paramount's New York district manager. He had been branch manager. Twenty-seven years with the company, Mr. Randel was made branch manager in 1 94 1 , was previously Brooklyn manager and before that salesman in Charlotte, Buffalo and New York. MYRON SATTLER succeeds Mr. Randel as branch manager. He was sales manager. Mr. Sattler began his Paramount career as a booker in New York, becoming a salesman and then in 1941 New York sales manager. Along with Mr. Randel, he achieved high sales records. THE INSIDE STORY. Paramount home office executives the other evening listened intently as Captain Sam Harris, of the Nurnberg trials prosecution staff, disclosed information not previously publicized. In the front row are Austin C. Keough, vice-president in charge of legal affairs; Robert O'Brien, secretary, and William Healy, Mr. Keough's assistant. at are THE KEYS TO THE CITY of Boston are presented by Gregory Curley, son of Mayor Curley, to delegates, the Warner eastern district sales meeting. In usual order William Brumberg, 1947 sales drive captain; Ed Catlin, Buffalo manager; Ray Smith, Albany; Jules Lapidus, eastern division sales manager; Al Dayts, Boston; Carl Soe, New Haven; Mr. Curley; Clarence Eiseman, New York; George Horan, Boston; Sam Lefkowitz, eastern district manager, and I. F. Dolid, home office sales executive. A. PAM BLUMENTHAL last week was elected Cinecolor Corporation board chairman. He also resigned from the board of Enterprise Productions, which he helped organize. MAURICE N. WOLF on May I will help direct MGM's exhibitor and public relations at the New York home office.. He was Boston district manager before the new appointment was made. By the Herald MAGNETIC TAPE to supplant the usual sound track is being investigated by Warner sound technicians, Colonel Nathan Levinson, right, chief engineer, and Lt. Colonel Frank Cahill, left, Warner Theatres sound director, told trade writers in New York last week. The company is also seeking to achieve pre-war standardization and excellence of equipment, and its field engineers will confer in New York April 28, they said. The British studio, at Teddington, "blitzed" by bombs, is being re-equipped as machinery becomes available, thev added. MOTION PICTURE HERALD, APRIL 26, 1947