1958-09-20 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1958.

What makes MY kind

of picture pay

"THE MONEY MEN' LOOK BOLDLY INTO THE FUTURE

As you go to meet knocked the hustle or the glitter

the Top Men in the

out of their offices.

If

Continuing:

the real fears for 30 YEARS

I found them facing the film industry you hear industry's problema with the sound of your foot buoyancy and optimism, steps fade as the peting gets richer and thicker on the way up.

car

they have

future they are doing

hidden.

1.very

good job of keeping them OF MOTION

PICTURES

Bir Michael Balcon — head of The film tycoons of today are Ealing ohms — put it to me: "t nol very changed men. The have been in Almi for thirty shadow of recession has not years. There will be alma for

• BY. THE . WAY

by Beachcomber

pistols. 100k o owing or two with one of the swords.

They will soon be unleashed upon the nation's chlidren to colucide with the arrival of Disney's The Sign of Zorro, which is likely to put Davy Crocket: right back in The muscunt, This is one of eight major pictures Disney is making this year. A record number fer- the company.

"Disney's Alms appeal to the, Another thirty, another nity, whole family," said Cyril Edgar. another hundred years."

"That is the secret of their

Film men are not always idealists, but they are frequently realists, They can niso be harshly self-appraising.

GOOD STORIES

MIKE FRANKOVICH — managing director here of

the „ROCKET from OUTER SPACE

LOVE AFF

IN VENICE

CLARK CABLE CRE PIEK BACARDE

success. When people ring the JAK LOOKS AT THE BATTLE OF THE BOX OFFICE

cinema and find out a Disney

im is showing they don't want to know any more detail.

Charles Goldsmill-kend of MGM in Lacn reports u revival in cinema-going. "You know, I have people ring this office to ask when they can see Gigi over here, I've even had

Ben Hur, and that's not even fashed shooting."

and be

sure

picture it needs

British chier Montague Morton of getting it back."!

said: "When this cerapany was originally formed by Charlie Universal International ple. Chaplin and Mary Pickford i tures have made revolutionary was intended to help Indepen- alterations to meet the new dent producers to get

B slow- stuction. Said their chetning. We operate the same policy "We closed the studios for a time best in picture ideas and see and completely streamlined the they have the best backing. We

Before, we were organisation,

never interfere in the production, never making

more than 30 films a

We let them get on with 11" year.

months' time, the last hand- the von sit approached, and Columbia - told me canckily, inquiries when we see showing Britain, Douglas G. Granvltic: today. We are tôle to plek the

AM fold that, in a few willie. Foulenough signalled to ful of London buses, each work-isked the driver to take back "While the boom period was on licone people got into Alms who some empty cases with him. ing to its own schedule, will

agreed, and was asked in Lor and fo place there. The reces- agree not to accept passengers drink.

sion will clear them Everything

out and disapproved of by either driver friendly that the driver lost back to their proper jobs. or conductor; not to stop

of time. Foulenough until count

"I don't chose a girl with a take

production programme you will same the they want to; not to stick to any offered to

who won a beauty and the Shrillville,

see how we are facing the ailua. and make only seven or eight. driver 30in. bust prescribed route.

was

50

10 von

"This sort of thing happed before,

"if you lake a look at our "New we will spend the

толсу OF

of

even anore

F. E. Hutchinson, British head 50 Paramount, celebrates

this years in the Alm Business year. He takes a calm view of the film crisis.

agreed. Foulenough left the contest at Deighton or maybe tion. We are offering variety.

wo are making "The Arst picture mude under In the event of fewer people empty enses from the castle in Coney Island and sign her up. The pletures

The sort of people I am looking enter for all tastes. You name a this new policy will be seen here using the buses, fares will be the yard at Shrillwillic, drove for may be it boy working as a big alur and somewhere, he or seen. It's called A Time to Love doubled, and DS a protest back, unloaded the champagne,

la the pro- and A Time To Die, a story of party.seriwriter for the BBC. A boy she will eature against further cuis in the and

the war. The writer is Remarque gramme," services, the {ew remaining When the driver had sufficiently with

whose All Quiet on the Western buses will Anally decide not to recovered he drove the empty soncone like that.

Arthur_Abeles, ofWarner Erent made history for this run, at all,

"champagns-eases back to His

Brothers. puts his emplusts on studio 28 years ago. firm in Auchtermuchte.

In passing

THE spectacle of a great Power, which prides itself. on Its sense of humour, preparing to hide its head in shame if another great Power is the first to get a rocket into the moon's orbit ly not an edifying one. If the whole business were treated os a comic sporting event and u subject for mirth, it would be another matter. While hoping that nobody will get to the moon, I think it is a pity thal The "race" cannot be won by some little country which has made no fuss, such as Switzer- ld. The mortification and humiliation of the great Powers would be well worth watching.

Neat but beastly

THE road to Shriliwillie

mins Castle. past Macaroon Foulenough had discoveerd that a wine-merchant from Auchter- muchie was to deliver cases of champagne at Shrül-

some

resumed

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ARTIE.

ICELAND

the

Artic.

"I don't dare swallow that one-he's under Royal Navy protection."

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

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AND INSTRUCTIONS THAT CALE WITH YOUR

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We can talent.

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"Good stories and not bally- hoo will keep alms alive,"

Jimmy Patinson, head of the Fox British once, believes in new deal for cinemagoers.

NEW HERO

the story.

BEST IDEAS

"We are buying the really big novels. We have to pay high prless because other companies British Lion have brought on want them, too. People want to to the board euch famous im-

good atos

expansively makers as the Boulting Biothers made. There is no future for the and Launder and Gilliát, cheaper picture; we've all tried them and they have falled,"

SOC

Managing director Dayld "We decided that Гаг too

Kingsley told me: "There is no many people had to wait too

Associated British challenge that a crisis won't Down at long before they got a chance to

in Elstree business is cure, Thirty years ago the Bim see a new picture. Now we have studios

Jimmy Wailis, studiu found ity volce and many the timo it takes booming.

told *mo: "We haven't thought it would lose its head to get a film around the country, head, from two years to nine months. room of the manent to make all and its audience. As usual the

fearful ard the pictures we have planned,"

the timid were

cut

We have also started open- tur pictures in the provinces #suburb nt the same time they are showing la the West Eni A recent example of this www The Long Hot Summer. It 1 Line the folk outside the Weat End of London were made to feel a little important."

FEWER FILMS

com-

Shrewd planning and careful co-operation with other panies is part of the secret of their success.

wrong.

"Not every film can be il misterpiece or a box-office bit. But, generally, the cinema com- tinuds to offer the best in popular entertainment,

"We like to put particular emphasis on comedy-as in our films Private's Progress."

"I have just bought a good The desk of Cyril Edgar, story an American company was

boss

the of British

Walt also chasing. Now I have agreed United Artists have more than Disney company, was loaded with bust company that they 40 million dollars currently in- were cloaks, shall release the film in America vested in production and a pro- with toys. There

Mr when we've made it. This means gramme that carries them into masks, pistols and swords. Edgar tried out one of the we can spend the money on the 1960.

PLACE THEM IN YOUR

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By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

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Sheaffer

"In u Welfare State people have more to buy and compell- tion for their custom in

Nerce,

People have good homes and don't have to go bul to escape drrariness. The social pattern has changed.

"We are adjusting the Industry accordingly. At Paramount we are making fewer but bigger films, People shop for Aims just like everything else and we will provide ims they will feel they can't afford to miss."

men

Lel. Ealing's Sir Michael Eaton have the last word. lle told me: "There ore atill dedicated

in the Alm industry. They don't go through all we have to go through just for profit. With men like there behind them flims will never die."

Gerard Garrett

=(London Express Service!.

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