Boxoffice-October.07.1968

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MONT REAL
The Cinematheque Canadienne has initiated
its new season of public screenings. The
film chosen to open the new season is G. W.
the Laval, Cinema 2.
Pabst's 1928 masterpiece "Pandora's Box,"
starring Louise Brooks. The film will be
reshown later in October to inaugurate a 17-
film Pabst Retrospective including "The
Diary of a Lost Girl." The Cinematheque
REDUCTIONS
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From any type of color print.
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Complete 35nim & 16mni
lab. All facilities.
Film scratches removed, waxing, old
dry films rejuvenated, new films
vacuumate treated against wear and
tear.
• UNSQUEEZED 16mm "flat" prints
made from 35mm CinemaScope films.
• "Personalized one stop service for tlie
film distributor."
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Flotille Blanche" and "L'Homme Vite" at
OTTAWA
lowing the closing of quite a few summer
cottages in the area.
Following the opening of its twin unit in
Ottawa's Laurentian Shopping Centre,
Odeon Theatres (Canada) Ltd. will have 129
J-he film "17 cnie Parallelle" (Seventeenth will also present The Joyless Street." with
Parallel), produced by Joris Ivens, one Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen: "The Love
of the leading makers of documentaries, will of Jeanne Ney." "Westfront 1918"; "Karadschaft"
and the French and German versions try . . . Rank Organization common shares
theatres in active operation across the coun-
be featured by Elysee Theatre in its Salle
Eisenstein. The French film was produced in of "The Threepenny Opera" . . . The second hit a new high at $13 last week in Canadian
North Vietnam with the collaboration of Studio
du Film Documentaire of Hanoi.
the 1968-68 season will be devoted to Italian
major series of the Cinematheque to launch market trading.
Concerts of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra
will be returning to the Famous
cinema, with 16 films which have never been
The Centennial Theatres Ltd.. a new cornpans
in the entertainment field in Montreal, many varied retrospectives and tributes
shown in Quebec Province the
.
Players Capitol in Ottawa with six bookings
starting Wednesday (23). Screen performances
were halted Wednesday (2) for the
opened its first local movie theatre on Thursday
(}). Named the "Cinema Guy," the new a series devoted to the films Alfred Hitch-
scheduled at the Cinematheque this year is
touring British Variety Show and on Sunday
2n()->.eat movie house is located at Guy and cock made in England between 1925 and
(6) for The Hollies, to be followed by the
Maisonneuve Boulevard. The auditorium has 1938.
Carlton Showband Concert Thursday night
been designed utilizing the most recent technological
advances in sound isolation. Opening
attraction was "Weekend. Italian Style." Montreal movies included "Angel" at the
National Film Board films featured in (10).
"The Graduate" is into its eighth month
a contemporary comedy co-starring Enrico Place Ville Marie; "Pecheurs a Tecoute" at
at one of the Elgins while three others rolled
Maria Salerno. Sandra Milo and Jean Sorel. the Papineau; "Un jeu si simple" at the Amherst.
"Par dela les nuages" at the Versailles;
into a third week, these being "Benjamin"
Filmed in color in Ricconi. Italy, the film
at the Elmdale. "Hang 'Em High" at the
was directed by Dino Risi.
"We Ganna Have Recess" at the Atwater;
.Somerset and "The Producers" at the orig-
"Chuckwagon" at the Van Home, "4350
Feet Under the Earth" at the Dauphin, "La
pranchot Tone, the actor who died September
19 in New York City, spent much
time each year in the local area and was a
close associate of the late D. B. Stapleton.
long-time owner of the Center Theatre here.
with the result that many people believed he
was a native of Ottawa, although he was
born at Niagara Falls. N.Y. Tone's mother
was a girl from nearby Buckingham and the
actor's last marriage was to an Ottawa Valley
resident. Tone and Stapleton had their summer
vacations together at 31-Mile Lake
north of Ottawa.
The federal government is not sponsoring
Saturday morning free shows this season for
juveniles which had been the practice for
many years. One result is that children are
not going to the National Museum for film
entertainment but to regular theatres where
the admission is 50 cents. The Elmdale and
Somerset are staging special matinees Saturday
and Sunday with performances at 1:30
and 3:30 p.m. while the independent Mayfair
offers Saturday morning programs which are
ditferent from adult pictures.
"The Fox" finished its
run of eight weeks
at the 20th Century Nelson to make way the
following day for the roadshow engagemeni
of "2001: A Space Odyssey" at $2.50 top.
Manager Svend Pedersen organized an extensive
campaign the film and set up an additional
boxoffice at the Famous Players Regent
for the sale of reserved seats . . .
The
Town House has revived its package offer
lo diners at
a price which includes a theatre
admission with each meal.
The Port Elmslcy Drive-In near Smiths
1 alls has reduced its scheduled performances
to Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights fol-
inal Elgin. "Belle de Jour" has opened at the
new Towne Cinema.
The new chief inspector of theatres in the
Ontario government is William R. Watt, former
theatre manager. His brother is Doug
Watt, the Odeon city manager in Ottawa.
Rowland Emett in Canada
To Promote UA Picture
MONTREAL — British cartoonist Rowland
Emett was in Montreal to talk about his
part in making "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
for United Artists. The picture will open in
local theatres on December 19.
Emett devised ten extravagantly engineered
machines for the use of Commander
Caractacus Pott, Royal Navy retired, played
by Dick Van Dyke.
The period of the film is 1910 and the
"inventions" devised by Emett. with the assistance
of 15 people as "dotty as myself."
he said, range from the world's first mechanized
rocking chair to an automatic, fourspeed,
nine-clutch, one-candle powered,
chain-driven breakfast machine.
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is Emett's second
film experience. In 1957 he produced
some ingenious desert island equipment for
the screen version of "The .\dmirablc Crichton."
by J. M. Barrie.
Emett's present assignment has taken 18
months of his working life and will keep
him and his wife on the road well into 1969.
Gerald Adler Named V-P
Of New CBS Films Unit
LOS ANGELES—Gerald Adler has been
named vice-president of a newly-formed division
of CBS Films, which will specialize in
the development and production of feature
films for exhibition domestically over the
CBS television network, it was announced
by Gordon Stulberg, president.
Adler. who assumes his new position immediately,
resigned from Universal-TV after
a 12-year association.
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BOXOFTICE ;: October 7, 1968