Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1940 — Page 10

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HOLLYWOOD

Disney Working on 7 Feature Length Pictures to Be Released Two Each Year

By PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD. Oct. entertainment factory, — SO unwork in it, that the movie colony going on in the fantasy business.

Production of mouse, duck and other shorts already has heen doubled, probably will be tripled. He has a thousand employees. He soon will inrtduce a new sound system whicn represents the greatest advance since words and music came to the flickers. Lack of this special sound equip‘ment is delaying release of “Fantasia,” which is a two-and-a-half-hour symphony concert with ani- - mated accompaniment. It will open Nov. 14 in New York, where he has leased a theater tor a year. This is the same theater, incidentally — the old Colony — to which an. unknown Wait Disney went in 1928 with a can of film under his arm and begged a free showing of his first cartoon. By. early February, probably enough of the sound-reproducing devices will have been manufaciured to permit “Fantasia” to ‘be showing in 11 other key cities. ach set of equipment costs $40,00 and requires 10 days tor installation. In the spring comes “The Reluctant Dragon,” which is best explained by the story of how it began. A few months ago, studio executives were trying to figure what to do with three especially geod stories suitable for “long shorts” of maybe a couple of reels each Another problem they were mulling at the time was a cinematic tour, also in two reels, of the new studio. But they weren't satisfied that such a picture, even with Robert Benchley’s narration, was quite what they wanted.

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AND THEN the big idea struck. They'd combine Benchley, the studio and the three shorts into a feature. The humorist would be shown reading Kenneth Grahame's “Reluctant Dragon” and deciding to call it to the attention of Disney. Book in hand, he'd arrive at the studio, get lost from his guide, barge into various departments where cordial craftsmen would show him exactly how they work. There he (and the audience) "would see the first two of the aforementioned three shorts—in sequence but through different mediums. The first probably would start with story sketches such as cover the walls of directors’ offices. Then some of the rough, pencilsketch animation would be seen, as if in a projection room, Part could be shown in the painting department, other sequences under the camera, some through a cutter’s moviola, and so on. Finally Benchley would find Disney, and the latter would whisk him off to a projection room to see a newly completed picture. And this would be “The Reluctant Dragon,” the very yarn that had brought Benchley to the studio. Third future feature will be “Bambi,” perhaps in the early summer. - This tale of a deep has been in production even longer than “Snow White” was. It’s the pet of the whole studio and the nucleus of a sort of cult for the hundreds who have worked on it.

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AFTER THAT—“Dumbo.” The idea came from an unpublished children’s book which Disney bought outright—a hook about a baby elephant who was jeered for his ludicrously large ears until he found he could fly with them. The story, enlarged into a featurelength script, takes Dumbo into a circus. “Peter Pan” and “Alice in Wonderland” will be animated within a couple of years. “Alice’s” admirers on Disney's staff have experimented with that classic for years. But the boss wasn't in any hurry; he wanted the public to have plenty of time to forget the sorry version Paramount made with human actors in 1931. The seventh feature actually in production is “The Wind in the Willows,” another story by Kenneth Grahame. It's a satirical thing involving a toad, a mole and I don’t know what all.

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Opening Tomorrow

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“DOOMED TO DIE”"—With Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds. Directed by William Nigh. Detective Wong catches the culprit. “PRAIRIE SCHOONERS”—WIith Bill Elliott, Evelyn Young.

Circle

“KNUTE ROCKNE—ALL AMERICAN”—With Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Donald Crisp, Ronald Reagan. Directed by Lloyd Bacon; original screen play by Robert Buckner, based on the private papers of Mrs. Knute Rockne and the University of Notre Dame. A film biography of Knute Rockne from his childhood in Norway, through his student days at Notre Dame and his country- wide fame as a football coach there, to nis death in 1931. “MONEY AND THE WOMAN”—With Jeffrey Lynn, Brenda Marshall. Directed by William K. Howard. The young bank executive and the wife of the crooked teller join forces to thwart a bank robbery.

Indiana

“DOWN ARGENTINE WAY”—With Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood. Directed by Irving Cummings. A musical set in New York and the Argentine, with a spot of plot about a family feud and horse racing. “ELSA MAXWELL'S PUBLIC DEB NO. 1"—With George Murphy, Brenda Joyce, Elsa Maxwell. Directed by Gregory Ratofi. When the soup fortune heiress turns “parlor pink.” the newspapers play it up and soup sales slump. The heiress’ fiance, a candidate for Congress, is embarrassed but helpless. And then Elsa Maxwell steps in.

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“THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA”—With Cary Grant, Martha Cedric Hardwicke. Richard Carlson. Produced and directed by Frank Lloyd; adapted by Sidney Buchman from Elizabeth Page's novel, “The Tree of Liber.y.” A tale of a Virginia woodsman and his aristocratic bride, their fam-

tionary War. “THE LADY IN QUES'TION"—WIith Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth,

Irene Rich. Directed by Charles Vidor. All ahout the trouble that ensues when the soft-hearted French shopkeeper brings a pretty defendant home to live after he has sat on ‘the jury acquitted her. Lyric INA RAY HUTTON AND HER ORCHESTRA (on stage)—With Fid ‘Gordon, comic violinist; Hibbard, Bird and LaRue, dance act; Evelyn Farney, tap dancer; Five Juggling Jewels, “THE GAY CABALLERO’—With Cesar Romero, Sheila Ryan, Robert Sterling. Directed by Otto Brower.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 10, 1940

Film Extras Worry Rises

Ban Asked If on Job Less

Than 11 Days a Year.

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 10 (UU. P.).— Nearly 5000 extras who sometimes brush elbows with the Myra Loys and the Clark Gables—and receive about $35 a year, each, for it— today faced the prospect of losing even that insecure niche in motion pictures. A joint committee, representing major producers and the Screen Actors’ Guild, reported to the Motion Picture Producers’ Association that a survey showed 4564 parttime actors and actresses worked less than 10 days each in 1939, The committee recommended that they be weeded out, so that extras working 11 days or more a year might have more employment. The Actors’ Guild executive board will act on the report. Producers were told that extras who worked 10 days or less last year averaged $35 each from motion pictures. The committee Central Casting Bureau, where all film players not under contract are registered for part time employment, ignore extras in the lower bracket and refuse to register them. There are presently 9849 actors and actresses listed in Central Casting. The extras who would primarily be affected are “members of the mob”—the convicts at prison mess

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ROBERTS BAND

Red Roberts and his orchestra will be the attractions at the Indiana Roof for the three nights beginning tomorrow. The band, which recently broke all records for long runs at Madura's Danceland in Hammond, has appeared in Indianapolis previously only at private dances.

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SCOUTS IN SERIES

Warner Bros. announces that the next of the series of patriotic shorts to go into production at. the Burbank studio will be one based on the activities of the Boy Scouts.

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