Talk:Harry Saltzman

Today's edits
The tone of this article has been tagged since February 2011, and no wonder with purpose-prose POV such as, "In a double historic irony, Mankowitz put the two together and was hired to work on the script for what became film history— Doctor No." I've trimmed as much of this as I could to straight forward encyclopedic fact without such POV and editorial commenting, but the issue of unverified content, tagged since October, is still a big issue. --Tenebrae (talk) 20:45, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Technicolor fiasco
I've added further cited details about Saltzman's two years at Technicolor. I'm not sure how to add the following sums or if wikipedia policy allows us to add such information. Regardless, this makes interesting reading. - Fantr (talk) 20:11, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
 * In 1970 Saltzman buys at least 370,000 Technicolor shares. Tom Mankiewicz claims Technicolor is selling at US$30 a share. Therefore Saltzman spends at least US$11,100,000 (1970 funds). In today's money that's at least US$65,879,072.16 according to http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/.
 * In 1972 Saltzman sells 370,000 shares to pay back the Swiss bank loan he got to purchase the stocks in 1970. According to Mankiewicz, Technicolor was selling at US$8 a share. Saltzman gets US$2,960,000 (1972 funds) for those shares. In today's money that's US$16,306,909.09.
 * Saltzman has lost at least US$8,140,000 (1972 funds). In today's money that's US$49,572,163.07 down the hole.


 * The inflation calculator site is a problematic reference since there are different mathematical formulas for approximating present-day values. Secondly, even when numbers are agreed upon, they may not be in context &mdash; a comic book cost 12 cents in 1963 and anywhere from $3-$4 generally now. Was 12 cents the equivalent of $3-$4? No, because in addition to inflation comics publishedrs now pay royalties, use better printing processes, employ a different distribution system, etc. This is only one example, simply to indicate that it's difficult if not impossible to make absolute comparisons. It also appears to be OR synthesis. --Tenebrae (talk) 21:11, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Life and career (paragraph 11)
Use of the word 'loan' in the following sentence conveys the wrong meaning:

"However by 1972 Saltzman reportedly had to sell off 370,000 shares of Technicolor stock to repay the loan he made to the Union Bank of Switzerland to purchase the stock. "

According to the article, Saltzman borrowed $40 million from UBS - not the other way around. Suggest editing this paragraph, so the sentence reads "the loan he had with", "his debt with/to".92.40.127.3 (talk) 21:42, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

This is done: replaced with "to repay his loan from," 92.40.118.64 (talk) 22:17, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Probable Jewish origin
Wikipedia articles on famous film directors, actors or producers usually mention it, if they were Jewish. This is not the case here, but there are hints that suggest a Jewish origin: the first name Herschel, the facts that his father was named Abraham and Saltzman, coming from the territory of Poland, and the fact that he married a woman born Ghinsberg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.24.11.129 (talk) 23:03, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Birth act
Hello. According to his birth act in Sherbrooke that is on the BAnQ he was born Israel Harris Saltzman on October 29, 1915 here Danielvis08 (talk) 18:51, 16 May 2024 (UTC)