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Special Committees
Named by Academy
From Western Edition
more special comof
the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences have been named by
Arthur Freed, president, bringing to nine
the number organized to date.
The committees are:
Foreign Language Film Award—Robert
W. Vogel, chairman; Louis Blaine, Macdonald
Carey, Rudi A. Fehr, Ely Levy, Roy
Metzler, Tony Navarro, Don Prince, Carl
Schaefer, Geoffrey M. Shurlock, Harry
Tytle, Rose Goldstein Zimanich.
Membership—Richard Murphy,
chairman; Hai-ry Brand, Carey and Hal
JElias.
Short Subjects Branch Executive—Elias
Tytle, co-chairmen ; Joseph Ansen,
Jack Kimiey, Leo S. Rosencrans, Adrian
Woolery.
I Writers Branch Executive — Murphy,
Warren Duff, Ivan Goff, Ernest
.Lehman, Edmund H. North, George Sea-
Daniel Taradash.
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Animal Sequences Begin
On Booth's 'Brighty'
Eastern Edition
sequences featming
'the "hero," a small bm-ro, now are under
iway for "Brighty of the Grand Canyon,"
a production of Stephen F. Booth. Shooting
of all scenes with "human" actors has been
(completed for the film, which stars Joseph
Gotten.
is the first full-length production
,for Booth, who has produced fOms for
television and educational and industrial
use in the Detroit area for many years.
iThe feature is based on Marguerite Henry's
prize-winning children's book pubjlished
in 1953.
Production was delayed by location-work
'hazards in the Grand Canyon. Booth ex-
!plored the area and learned how to com-
;bat the logistics problems, including the
.absence of roads. Using a small work crew,
combined with mules and helicopters for
personnel and equipment transportation,
;he was able to set up location and begin
filming.
crew was in the canyon bottom, a
below the rim, for foui- weeks. There
Jwere more than 1,000 helicopter flights.
TORONTO
Ceveral local theatremen have been honored.
Employes of Famous Players theatres
gathered at the city's Park Plaza
Hotel to welcome new members into the
company's 25-Year Club. The gathering
represented close to 1 ,000 years of collective
service with the organization.
A Toronto reception has been given for
Kenneth Winckles, managing director of
the theatre division of the J. Aithm- Rank
Organization, dm-ing his recent annual
visit here. He was introduced to many of
the country's leading distribution and exhibition
executives by C. R. B. Salmon,
president of Odeon Theatres and the Rank
Organization of Canada, Ltd.
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Few new bookings have turned up at
local houses, with the weather finally
warming up. However, drive-ins took advantage
of the Civic Holiday by offering
special four-feature programs on a Sunday.
However, a teenager's program, "Having a
Wild Weekend" and Go Go Mania."
moved into the Downtown and Midtown,
as well as several other neighborhood
houses and two drive-ins . "What's New
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Pussycat?" stays for a fifth week at the
Odeon Hyland the Greek"
has lasted for an 18th week at the International
Cinema . already have
gone on sale for the Beatles' featm'e,
"HELP!" to open at several local Odeon
houses.
The fourth annual sales drive by Astral
Films has been launched, and will i-un
for the next two months. All of the company's
six branches will participate in an
incentive bonus plan based on booking
volume.
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In the first three drives, Toronto stood
under the leadership of Bill Tod, first
in 1962, third in 1963 and first again last
year. Montreal, headed by Bert Frank, was
first in 1963 and second the other two
years. Incidentally, Bert Frank has resigned
from Astral's Montreal office.
Hal WaUis' "The Sons of Katie Elder"
will come in for some unique promotion
at the Canadian National Exhibition here,
at which more than 3 million visitors are
expected in the 15-day period beginning
Friday ( 20 ) . Paramount Pictui'es has arranged
for the regular theatre trailer for
the John Wayne-Etean Martin western to
be shown over the exhibition's closedcircuit
television network daily, aroundthe-clock.
The trailer will be seen on TV
screens in every restaurant, plaza and
amusement center in the exhibition.
'Dingaka' Has Big Opening
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK — Joseph E. Levine's
"Dingaka" registered an excellent openingday
gross of $19,938 at 22 RKO theatres
in Greater New York.
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Anomorphic Lenses.
Williams Silver Screens.
New & Rebuilt Tlieatre Chairs.
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'Seven Arts Names Carlin
iHead of European Sales
|From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK—Seven Arts Productions
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jlnt'l has named Roger Carlin, who ori?anized
and headed MCA's television de-
|Partment from coast-to-coast, director of
;European sales, and Vicente Ramos, asisociated
with the Latin American Broad-
!:asting operation of Goar Mestre as New
j^ork representative, director of Latin
lAmerican sales for Seven Arts, according
|to W. Robert Rich, executive vice-president
,ind general manager of Seven Arts Television.
Jaffe, with Seven Arts for three
j^fears as executive assistant to Eliot Hy-
]nan, president, has been named director of
!^ew York programs to head up the com-
;3any's New York program development,
I:lich said.
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