Boxoffice-September.23.1950

SMPTE Meeling Sets
Early Talks on TV
NEW YORK—Many advances in
television,
ranging from a new system for television studios
and a new arrangement of studios to
new applications in industry, business, education
and research, will be pre.sented at the
opening sessions of the 68th semiannual convention
of the Society of
Motion Picture and
Television Engineers October 16-20 at the
Lake Placid club, Lake Placid, N. Y.
Newland F. Smith of station WOR-TV will
describe the new system at the Monday afternoon
session, W. L. Norvell of Remington
Rand will discu.ss television use in industrial
and educational fields, H. M. Gurin of the
National Broadcasting Co. will talk about
studio lighting methods and Peter Goldmark
of Columbia Broadcasting System will talk
on color television.
Tuesday sessions will include talks on television
production by Jerry Fairbanks, teletranscriptions
by Thomas T. Goldsmith jr.
of the Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, the
dynamic transfer characteristic of a television
film camera chain by W. K. Grimwood
and T. G. Veal of the Kodak research laboratory,
television film equipment by F. N.
Gillette, chairman of a joint RTMA-SMPTE
committee: characteristics of all-glass tubes
by J. L. Sheldon of the Corning Glass Works,
and wire television transmission in telephone
areas by L. W. Morrison of the Bell Telephone
Laboratories.
Arnall Due in New York
For Series of Meetings
NEW YORK—Ellis Arnall. president of the
Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers,
is due here Monday (25) from his
home at Nunan. Ga., for a series of meetings
with the eastern sales representatives of producer
members. He will report on the coast
meeting at which the new Anglo-American
remittance pact was approved except for a
couple of minor revisions, and at which a
plan was worked out with Joseph Alioto, San
Francisco attorney, to expedite SIMPP antitrust
action against United Detroit Theatres
and Cooperative Theatres of Michigan.
Arnall sees a bright future for independent
production through the imposition after election
of national control on the manufacturing
of such commodities as automobiles and
television sets, the purchase of which has
been keeping some people away from the
boxoffices. An early SIMPP decision is expected
on the number of German import
licenses it will request.
Kaufman Will Start Suit
Late Sept. Against ELC
NEW YORK — Irving
Kaufman, creditor
assignee for Film Classics, said Monday (18)
that he has been conferring with FC producers
preparatory to court action against
Eagle Lion Classics, and will definitely file a
$500,000 suit late this month. Kaufman denied
receiving any arbitration "feeler" from ELC.
R. J. Augenblick. attorney for Eagle Lion
Classics, said Monday (18) that ELC will answer
Kaufman's complaint and summons
September 26. date it falls due. The suit
covers funds Kaufman maintains are owed
FC on film rentals collected since June 12.
U-I Foreign Ad Men Coming
To Talk 'Harvey' Plans
NEW YORK— Univer.sal-International
will
bring in at least a dozen advertising and publicity
men from other countries to attend the
first gathering of the kind in New York
October 5. Plans for distribution of "Harvey"
will be the principal topic of discussion.
The decision to hold the gathering was
made jointly by Alfred E. Daff, executive
vice-president, and David A. Lipton. U-I national
director of advertising and publicity.
Conferences in New York will continue
through October 10. Then the visitors will
fly to the coast accompanied by Daff and
Fortunat Baronat, director of foreign advertising
and publicity, for further talks with
studio executives. The visitors will be guests
at an invitational premiere of the picture
at the Carthay Circle Theatre October 11
and will return to New York. October 15.
Those who will attend will include: Jack
Sullivan, United Kingdom: Mi.ss Loulou Lingberg,
Sweden: Herbert Tonks, Far East representative
with headquarters in the Philippines:
Louis Piret, Belgium: Raphael Bernard,
France: Dr. Ermete Santucci, Italy: Lin
Endean, Australia: Miss Wanda Calveart,
Brazil, and Alf Perry, Canada.
New Cinecolor Pact Made
With Radiant of London
HOLLYWOOD—Tlie Cinecolor Corp. has
reached an agreement with Radiant Films of
London. England, under which the British
company will henceforth be known as Cinecolor
Great Britain. Ltd., and will be permitted
to maintain all of the services and technical
processes which Cinecolor's Burbank
laboratory has developed.
Announcement of the transaction was made
by Karl Herzog, executive vice-president of
Cinecolor. The agreement was consummated
with the approval of the British Board of
Trade and the Bank of England.
The new corporation is an outgrowth of a
previous working agreement which has been
in effect between Cinecolor and Radiant
Films for a period of more than one year.
Under the former agreement. Radiant was
licensed to make English and European prints
of Cinecolor pictures produced in the U.S.
Under the new pact, Cinecolor will own 26
per cent of the ordinary shares of Cinecolor
Great Britain, Ltd.. in return for which their
techniques and processes will be made available
to Cinecolor Great Britain.
Two Rank Executives Due
In the U.S. in October
NEW YORK—G. I.
Woodham-Smith, director
of the J. Arthur Rank Organization, will
arrive in this country early in October to
study the initial operation here of the new
Anglo-American remittance and production
pact, which goes into effect October 1. No
plans have been made for Rank to come to
the U.S. At the time of Woodham-Smith's
arrival. Rank will be making a tour of British
exchanges, according to his present .schedule.
Later in the month. John Davis. JARO
managing director, will visit the U.S. Both
Rank executives will explore the possibility of
additional American production on British
soil, and may suggest co-production deals
with the U.S. industry. Mrs. Woodham-Smith
will accompany her husband.
Pressure Groups Are
AHacked by TVA
NEW YORK—The eastern section of the
national board of Television Authority, affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor, has issued a statement viewing "with
great alarm the tendency on the part of
sponsors and advertising agencies of succumbing
to self-appointed pressure groups."
It evidently had reference to the banning
from radio of Jean Muir. After condemning
communism, the statement said in part:
"TVA believes that if the U.S. is to remain
an effective bastion against communism, It
must determinedly resist the efforts of individuals
and groups who in their anti-
Communist zeal destroy basic individual
rights which have made our country great
and strong. One of these rights is the
American privilege of being considered innocent
until proven otherwise and of being
entitled to a hearing before being condemned.
Certain individuals and groups have
reckle.ssly ignored these American rights and,
through statements and publications, have
irreparably harmed the reputation and livelihood
of many loyal Americans. TVA condemns
such tactics."
The statement also said the government
is the only body qualified and capable of
determining through judicial process the
loyalty of individuals, and that if it is to
survive, "snoopers and fanatics must be
exposed for what they are." It called on
the American Bar Ass'n and the Ass'n of
the Bar of the City of New York to name
a committee for that purpose.
Television Makers Protest
FCC's Decision on Color
NEW YORK — The Television
Manufacturers
Ass'n has sent a formal protest to
the Federal Communications commission as
a result of the tentative approval given the
Columbia Broadcasting Company's color television
system.
Michael Kaplan, association president,
asked that RCA be given more time to demonstrate
its color television methods. He
declared that no color television system has
been devised that can be used on existing
sets, but expressed the opinion that such a
system is possible.
Two 20th-Fox Men Shifted
In Foreign Department
NEW YORK—Two shifts in foreign department
personnel have been made by Murray
Silverstone. president of 20th Century-Fox
International and Inter-American Corporations.
Tom Sibert, former manager in Puerto
Rico, has been made manager in Cuba,
replacing Edward Ugast, new Far Eastern
supervisor. Henry King, assistant manager
in Panama, has been named manager in
Puerto Rico.
Send Out 'Hamlet' Staff
NEW YORK—A special exploitation force
has been sent out by Universal-International
for the general release of J. Arthur Rank's
"Hamlet." The men on the.se assignments also
had experience during the showings of the
film at advanced prices.
42-D BOXOFFICE September 23. 1950