Boxoffice-July.01/1950

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' ELC Employes Assured Merger Going Through Letter !:oes out telling personnel not to worry about reports Eagle Lion-Film Classics merger negotiations have fallen through; assured positions are secure. British Government Plan On Taxes Gets an Okay Exhibitors, producers and distributors accept proposal for reducing tax on lower-priced tickets to provide subsidy for film production. UA-Popkin-Justman Deal Awaits Board Approval With Gradwell Sears ready to leave hospital July 1 weekend, the company's board of directors intends to convene in next week to consider stock control proposal. COMPO Committee to Pick Vice-President July 6 Personnel and management group headed by Leo Brecher decides on new date after finding some members were unable to attend session called for June 28. X Report Brandt and Cowdin Still Seek RKO Theatres Howard Hughes, only man who has the answer, not expected to act before July 25 stockholders' meeting because theatres can protect bank credit until December 31. Warner Bros. Denies Report Of Television Film Entry The company, quick to set the record straight, brands Los Angeles Mirror story as "fabricated, unchecked and unfounded" in reporting several TV activities. -X National Film Board Switch In Control Is Proposed Canadian cabinet would step out of the field of direct supervision of the NFB under provisions of a bill introduced in the house of commons by Robert Winters. Fihn Stocks Are Slightly Oft Due to Korean Outbreak While virtually all film stocks in the New York Stock Exchange and Curb Market were off, the decline in most instances was small compared with the general market. Advance Claimed by CBS In TV Film Methods Using magnetic tape for sound and 35mm negative film for the picture. Columbia Broadcasting has a new system of recording television programs for non-connected stations. 10 /WPE>A De\Qrs Pact Vote; Meet in London Again NEW YORK—For the second time within a few days the board of directors of the Motion Picture Export Ass'n met without reaching a decision on the film pact proposals of Harold Wilson, president of the British Board of Trade. After the meeting, which was held Monday (26) at headquarters and lasted from 11:30 a. m. to 2 p. m., it was said that the next board meeting will be held July 14 and that Eric Johnston, president, will leave for London by air the following day for a meeting with the British July 18. At that time he will take with him detailed information as to the stand of MPEA. and he will be empowered to present it in the negotiations. The board had met Wednesday (21) without reaching a decision. .\TTEND LONDON SESSION Spyros P. Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, and N. J. Blumberg, president of Universal-International, who were missing from the previous meeting, attended the Monday meeting. Skouras flew in from Europe the day before and Blumberg came on from the coast. He had not been expected until later in the week. The decision of the MPEA board not to reach an Immediate decision may have been influenced by the knowledge that Richard P. Walsh, lATSE president, was to hold a press conference on the attitude of Hollywood film labor toward the British proposals the following day. It became increasingly evident that MPEA is not inclined to regard the proposals as final, although they were so characterized by the British at the time they were made, and that efforts will be made to renegotiate them. Particularly disliked is the proposal that any U.S. decline in production in Britain be penalized by means of deductions from the total remittances allowable. Then, too, it is expected that MPEA will point out that it does not clearly understand the exact meaning and some of the implications of the proposals, which the British did not deliver in writing but simply recited orally. The effort will probably be made to get everything down on paper. Before leaving New York the previous week. Ellis Arnall. SIMPP president, said he planned to return to London early in July. He added that he didn't expect anything concrete, at least so far as SIMPP was concerned, before the first week in July, and that he wouldn't be back in New York until after the Fourth of July. Better Deal Is Possible In London, Says Walsh NEW YORK—If the Motion Picture Export Ass'n and the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers reject the British film pact proposals, the British wiU give them a "better deal." That was the view of Richard F. Walsh, lATSE president, expressed at a press conference Tuesday (27 > shortly after his return from Europe. Walsh said no one has the right to tell U. S. Film Funds Total $600,000 in Korea NEW YORK—U.S. film funds tied up in embattled South Korea total a fantastic sum in native currency, said by one foreign manager to be more than 215,000,000 won, or about $600,000, depending on one's own interpretation of the number of won equal to one dollar. This was the money that Irving Maas. MPEA vice-president and general manager, went to Seoul with Charles Mayer, MPEA representative in Japan, to try to get unfrozen, in whole or in part. Before they had a chance to accomplish anything, trouble broke out. They escaped Saturday (24) by ship to Tokyo. The MPEA Seoul branch serves 96 theatres. It was set up at the end of the war at the request of the U.S. army of occupation. S. F. Johansen has been in charge. American producers when and where they shall make pictures, and if threats of compulsion are carried out, then labor may act. "Hollywood producers should have complete freedom to produce and sell where they choose." he said. He added that "if the producers are smart, they will arrange for labor representation at future talks with the British." Asked if he thought the U.S. state department will assist in future negotiations, he said it has been very cooperative, having had representatives at the meetings in Britain, and that he did not know what else it can do to help. Walsh's statements followed by a day the sending of telegrams by the Hollywood AFL Film Council to Eric Johnston, MPEA president, and Ellis Arnall. SIMPP president, opposing acceptance of the proposals. The telegrams, signed by Roy M. Brewer, chairman, said in part: "Acceptance of penalty provisions would be a sellout of American labor " Walsh said labor couldn't object if the present pact is continued for two years. He said he told Johnston while on the other side that acceptance of the new proposals would be "a mistake," as it would set a precedent for other countries and encourage them to manipulate funds to compel production within their borders. Walsh estimated present Hollywood unemployment at 25 per cent. It will jump up to 30 or possibly 50 per cent if ten or more pictures are "pulled out" and produced abroad, he said. He estimated unemployment in Britain at 40 per cent. More U.S. production in Britain, he said, could bring unemployment here above the British level. Walsh then said that Hollywood unemployment is of course contingent on the size of the pictures it can lose to overseas production rather than the number. "Quo Vadls," being made by MGM in Rome, he said, would have kept everyone in several Hollywood departments fully occupied. BOXOFTICE :: July 1, <strong>1950</strong>
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