The Film Daily (1918)

Record Details:

Title:
The Film Daily
Date:
1918
Publisher:
New York, Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc.
Volume:
The Film Daily (Jul-Dec 1918)
Leaf #:
00034
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
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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DAILY Sunday, July 14, 1918 Too Much Meller and Too Little of Marie. Fails to Entertain The Box Office Analysis for the Exhibitor Baby Marie Osborne in "CUPID BY PROXY" Diando — Pathe I don't see how you arc going to alibi yourself for playing this. As kiddie stuff it utterly fails to get over because there is very little kid stuff in it and what we do get registers as very ordinary. The story proper has whiskers and does not convince at any stage. It isn't entertainment, it doesn't get anywhere, the whole production is slip-shod and poorly produced. . .it's just "fillum." Baby Marie started out to drum up quite a following and she has shown us that slie can deliver when given Intelligent direction and a story that provides something for her to do, and it certainly is a crime to let anything like this go out. A few more like it will ruin her career completely if her popularity hasn't slumped in your community already because of similar stories she has been given recently. If you have to play this, you can probably get it over on the strength of Baby Marie's name, but I certainly wouldn't promise anything. There is really nothing objectionable in the story, it just isn't there, it's hackneyed, it doesn't entertain. It will certainly hurt whatever following you have drummed up for the star in the past, because they will sit through the early reels of this waiting for the cute kid stuff they have learned to expect in these productions, and when it fails to appear, they are going to feel that they have been cheated. (f A Message to the PRODUCER rjnHE house of Robertson-Cole, bached by years of J successful international trading and practical experience in foreign fields, stands ready, with all of its prestige and financial power to take over the foreign distribution of any production of proven merit. A list of productions now being successfully handled in foreign territory by this company on request. Robertson-Cole Co. World Wide Film Distributors 1600 Broadway Film Department New York j