BoxOffice July 17, 1943

p68
"Walt Disney's "'Victory Through Air Power'' had its ivorld premiere at the Globe Theatre on Saturday Sa?"

p71 (picture of Walt Disney?)

p74
"34,899 feet of film shipped during June, the Walt Disney studio hit the alltime high in its liistory for output during any one month, missing by only 2,312 feet the total output of film for all of 1942, So far this fiscal year, Disney has delivered 140,927 feet, of which more than 90 per cent has been for the government."

p(showmandiser)

""Fantasia" and promoted it with a newspaper advertisement that was a radical departure from the usual ad with press book illustrations and consequently attracted wide attention. The Jo is on the dead end of a downtown street. The King is 40 blocks south of downtown in a south side business section. The ad, one of the largest spreads ever used here by a theatre, was 3x15 inches and without illustration. Large type at the top proclaimed "An IMPORTANT Message to the Public About "FANTASIA"." Below this, across the page in 12-point type, was the copy: We are proud to announce that we have

secured that glorious show, Walt Disney's "Fantasia," for presentation in St. Joseph at advanced admission. "Fantasia" stands today perhaps the most widely publicized and discussed motion picture in screen historyl "So manifold are its wonders, thrills and laughs glorified in magnificent color and intensified by Fantasound-recorded music by Stokowsky that everybody is seeing "Fantasia" many, over and over again! The type than dropped to five para-
• It has received an avalanche of acclaim by critics and public and has been hailed as "Like nothing else in heaven or on earth." • It won all three special academy awards

for

in the motion picture industry, the Irving Thalberg award)

Walt Disney the highest tribute academy's

Dropping back to 12-point full measure, the copy continued, "It's coming to these theatres in an event of extraordinary interest to our whole community. We urge every man and woman, every child of school age, to see 'Fantasia'." Then follows a signature cut of the picture superimposed on a miniature "Oscar" with the signature cuts of the Jo and King on the sides. Below this, in large type, "First Run in St. Joseph," followed in full measure 12-point with:

full feature length showSt. Joseph to Kansas City terriopportunity to see this extraordinary picture in its lull length, over 2 hours long, exactly as it was presented on Broadway, and PROUDLY PRESENTED to the patrons of St, Joseph and vicinity by Dickinson Theatres, Inc., at the Jo and King."


p(l?)
Disney cartoons contest: First, Omaha; second, Dallas; third, San Francisco; fourth, Atlanta; fifth, Albany; sixth, Buffalo. Canada: First, 'Vancouver; second,

p121?
"Walt Disney Cartoon Revue?" This was an unusual stunt because the Poll last week abandoned the co-feature picture policy, showing in its stead a series of five new

Disney cartoons, each featuring a different member of the Disney menagerie, among them Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto."




p (near the end; confused)

"Can't

Make

It

Stick

7 Mins.

is

Columbia

(Color Rhapsody)

watches the goat munching on his battleship while viewing the cartoon in a theatre and rushes back to save his ship. The goat gels

tlie last laugh by joining the audience for the fadeout. Popeye is seen only briefly swabbing the deck of the warship.

"employes" but "associates" and no strikes. The footage contains sock entertainment for the entire family of a type that would fit on

any

bill.

Very Good. A riot of color and fantasy cartoon based on the infamous career

Adolf H by name. The paperhanger plans to paste wallpaper emblazoned with the Nazi swastika in every room in every house in the world. He meets insurmountable trouble,

the

Austrian

paperhanger,

The Truck That Flew

Paramount

Excellent.

this

(Madcap Models)

8 Mins.

hov/ever,

when he

can't
cartoon

delightful a story

fantasy
make

and thereby hangs a title comes in.

tale.

the paper stick That's where the

An

utterly

transposed into a Hying truck. While flying through the heavens, the flying truck confronts three Jap v/arplanes which the little boy proceeds to shoot down. The dream ended, the

flying truck returns to his
home where


7 Min». (Phantasy Cartoon) Columbia Good. Amid a spooky atmosphere a tough fly gets into the toils of a spider's web and

Secret Agent

Paramount

Fair.

(Superman)

of

9 Mine,

the Superman series, the title character battles a gang of saboteurs, who are trying to make a getaway in

In this last
plot to

Superman overhears of a capture and kill a beautiful girl agent

who has

He

flies

learned of the foreign agents' plans. through the air to rescue the maiden Many kids in theatres in various parts of the country have wanted to know why Superman wasn't in the army in view

in distress.

his ness.

of

superhuman strength and

Maybe Superman has

resourcefuljoined the army.

The Hungry Goat

7 Mins. Paramount (Popeye Cartoon) Fair. Popeye plays second fiddle in this cartoon which introduces a tough goat who eats tin cans and battleships. An admiral

plot to

Superman overhears of a capture and kill a beautiful girl agent

who has

He

flies

learned of the foreign agents' plans. through the air to rescue the maiden Many kids in theatres in various parts of the country have wanted to know why Superman wasn't in the army in view

in distress.

his ness.

of

superhuman strength and

Maybe Superman has

resourcefuljoined the army.

The Hungry Goat

7 Mins. Paramount (Popeye Cartoon) Fair. Popeye plays second fiddle in this cartoon which introduces a tough goat who eats tin cans and battleships. An admiral