The Film Daily (1939)

Record Details:

Title:
The Film Daily
Date:
1939
Publisher:
Wid's Films and Film Folk, inc.
Volume:
The Film Daily (Apr-Jun 1939)
Leaf #:
00016
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
This leading industry publication, published out of New York, was founded in 1915 by Wid Gunning (who called his publication Wid's Daily until 1922). The Film Daily documented the rise of the Hollywood studios, the transition to sound, and the evolution of the American film industry (the paper finally shuttered in 1970). The Film Daily included feature reviews, news stories, and advertisements, but its extensive coverage of short films in the 1920s and 30s distinguished it from other trade papers of the period. -- Eric Hoyt, 2011/2013
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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Candid Camera Focuses on 20th -Fox Chi. Conventioi Sidney R. Kent greets General Manager of Distribution Herman Wobber at Chicago. Sidney R. Kent, president of 20th Century-Fox and head man at the conclave. Left— Herman Wobber (center) with William Sussman, Eastern Division manager (left) and William C. Gehring, Central Division manager. Right — The short subject contingent — Truman H. Talley, Movietone producer, Lew Lehr, shorts editor and News humorist, Steve Fitzgibbons, Movietone Studio manager, Jack Sichelman, in charge of convention arrangements. Charles E. McCarthy, director of advertising and publicity and Arch Reeve, advertising manager as they arrived from New York on the convention special. From the West — William Kupper, Western Division sales manager and John Dillon, Los Angeles branch manager. Adsales Manager Lee Balsly has just congratulated Clyde W. Eckhardt, Chicago manager, whose office this season broke all records for adsales. Herman Wobber congratulates Morton A. Levy, Prairie District manager who will undertake leadership of the 1939 annual S. R. Kent Drive. Right — Al Davis, Philadelphia; M. Crassgreen, Albany: Sam Cross, Philadelphia; Ben Dare, Albany; Edgar Moss, Philadelphia District manager; Paul Terry, Terrytoon producer; Harvey B. Day, Terrytoon business manager; Felix A. Jenkins, general counsel; Earl Wright, New Haven; Sam Germaine, New Haven; Ben Tolmas, Philadelphia. Left — Foreign Department delegation — seated: Australia's C. V. Hake, Overseas Sales Director Walter J. Hutchinson; standing: British Sales Director R. Sutton Dawes, E. S. Fraser, Leslie F. Whelan, British Movietone Producer Sir Cordon Craig, Chile Manager Arthur Ruscica, Lee Brandfeld, L. Rosenfeld.