Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (1949)

Page scan 000755 from Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia
Date:
1949
Publisher:
Hollywood : The Hollywood Reporter Press
Volume:
Motion picture production encyclopedia : 1949
Leaf #:
000755
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 15, 2025
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PICTURE COMPANIES 645 PHYSICAL ASSETS: Acreage owned, 231 acres. Sound stages, 1 7. Special permanent outdoor sets, 15. SEE FINANCIAL STATEMENT. UNITED WORLD FILMS (See Non-Theatrical) UNIVERSITY FILM PRODUCTIONS, Inc. (Producer, Distributor) 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. Circle 7-2085 President-Treasurer Edward A. Golden Vice-President Robert S. Golden Secretary Anne E. Harkavy Board of Directors: Edward A. Golden, Robert S. Golden, Anne E. Harkavy. VANGUARD FILMS, Inc. (Producer, SRO Release) 9336 Washington Blvd., Culver City, Calif. TExas 0-2931 President Daniel T. O'Shea Executive Vice-PresidentTreasurer Ernest L. Scanlon Vice-President-Ceneral Counsel Robert H. Dann Assistant Secretary-Counsel Richard Hungate Assistant Treasurer Earl R. Beaman Assistant to President Henry Willson Board of Directors: David 0. Selznick, Daniel T. O'Shea, Ernest L. Scanlon. DEPARTMENT HEADS: Production Executive and Studio Manager Argyle Nelson Publicity Director Paul MacNamara Story Gerry Deardorff Production Designer Joseph M. Johnson Film Editor Hal C. Kern Special Effects Department Clarence Slifer Sound Department James E. Stewart Casting Director Ruth Burch Purchasing Agent Joyce Allen NEW YORK: 400 Madison Avenue ELdorado 5-5323 Eastern Production Representative Robert Ross Eastern Sales Representative... Milton S. Kussell Story Editor Elsa Neuberger CHICACO: 33 N. La Salle Street ANDover 2676 Central Sales Representative Thomas F. Duane LOS ANGELES: 5212 Wilshire Blvd. Pacific Coast Sales Representative John S. Howard VERSHEL PRODUCTIONS (Producer. PRC Release) 135 W. 55th St., New York 19, N. Y. Circle 7-1233 7324 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood 46, Calif. Hillside 81 1 1 Producer Irving Vershel VICTORIA FILMS, Inc. ( Producer) 9120 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood 46, Calif. CRestview 1 -1 103 President Melville A. Shauer Secretary-Treasurer William Cordon VINSON PICTURES CORP. (Producer, Eagle Lion release) Motion Picture Center, 846 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. HOIIywood 9-5981 President Joseph Levinson Vice-President Arthur Dreifuss Secretary-Treasurer Arthur Desser THE VITAPHONE CORP. ( Producer) Subsidiary of Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.) 321 W. 44th St., New York, N. Y. Circle 6-1000 President H. M. Warner Vice-Presidents Albert Warner, J. L. Warner Secretary R. W. Perkins Treasurer Albert Warner Assistant Treasurer-Comptroller.. Samuel Carlisle Assistant Secretaries H. S. Bareford, Edward K. Hessberg Assistant Treasurer W. S. McDonald Auditor T. J. Martin Auditor of Exchanges Robert A. McGuire Board of Directors: H. M. Warner, Albert Warner, R. W. Perkins, W. S. McDonald, T. J. Martin. WALLIS (HAL) PRODUCTIONS, Inc. (Producer, Paramount Release) Paramount Studios 5451 Marathon St., Hollywood 38, Calif. HOIIywood 9-241 1 President Joseph H. Hazen Vice-President Hal B. Wallis Secretary Sidney Justin Assistant Treasurer M. H. Simpson DEPARTMENT HEADS: General Manager Jack Saper Talent Manager Paul Nathan Story Editor John Mock Publicity Manager Walter Seltzer Board of Directors: Joseph H. Hazen, Hal B. Wallis, Y. Frank Freeman, Jacob H. Karp. WALTER WANCER PICTURES, Inc. ( Producer) Eagle-Lion Studios, 7324 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles 46. Calif. HUdson 2-2181 President Walter F. Wanger Vice-President Abraham L. Bienstock Treasurer-Secretary ..George Mercader WARNER BROS. PICTURES, Inc. (Producer, distributor, theater operator) 321 W. 44th St., New York 18, N. Y. Circle 6-1000 President Harry M. Warner Vice-Presidents Albert Warner, Jack L. Warner, Herman Starr, Stanleigh P. Friedman, Samuel Schneider, Herbert Freston, Ben Kalmenson, Mort Blumenstock, Harry M. Kalmine, R. W. Perkins. Treasurer Albert Warner Assistant Treasurers Samuel Carlisle, W. Stewart McDonald, Cyril H. Wilder. Secretary-General Counsel R. W. Perkins Assistant Secretaries Harold S. Bareford, Edward K. Hessberg, Roy J. Obringer. Comptroller Samuel Carlisle Auditor Thomas J. Martin Board of Directors: Stanleigh P. Friedman, Charles S. Guggenheimer, Samuel Schneider, Morris Wolf, Samuel Carlisle. John E. Bierwirth, Waddill Catchings, R. W. Perkins. Albert Warner, Harry M. Warner. Jack L. Warner. DEPARTMENT HEADS: General Sales Manager Ben Kalmenson Short Subiects-Trailers Sales Manager Norman H. Moray Director, Advertising-Publicity Mort Blumenstock Advertising Manager Gil Colden Eastern Publicity Director Larry Golob Eastern Production Manager Jacob Wilk SUBSIDIARIES CURTZ (MICHAEL) PRODUCTION ( Listed separately) FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES ( Producer) MUSIC PUBLISHING HOLDINC CORPORATION (Music publisheri STANLEY COMPANY OF AMERICA (Theater Company) VITACRAPH STUDIO 4151 Prospect. Los Angeles, Calif. NOrmandy 1-7010 THE VITAPHONE CORP. (Listed separately) WARNER BROS. CIRCUIT MANACEMENT CORP. (Theater operation)