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 #:
00052
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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26 â– til'M AILV Sunday, July 14, 1918 Tell Them This Is Departure From Routine Western and Emphasize Comedy The Box Office Analysis for the Exhibitor Roy Stewart in "BY PROXY" Triangle Classed purely as entertainment, I think this will go over with most any audience. Roy Stewart's ever present smile in this should win him many friends because he smiles in a way that makes you want to enjoy it with him. Maude Wayne is one of the famous Keystone blondes who has forsaken slapstick for "drammer," and if you bought a set of the Keystone enlargements of the beauty squad you might dig up the one of Maude Wayne and use it for your lobby as Maude looks "quite some." Walter Perry's Irish map should pull the regular Triangle fans because Walter has been with the organization ever since it started and people have come to depend on him for a few chuckles every time he appears. He has a typical role in this. I would tell my patrons that this is purely a comedy and would use a cut of Roy with his smile in my ads. You might use catchlines like these: "What would you do if you had pledged your clothes to a Chink for collateral on a poker debt and the Chink decided to foreclose while you were asleep? See 'By Proxy'." "If you were going to marry a girl you had never met, would you make the arrangements yourself or leave this trifling detail to a friend?" " 'By Proxy' is a western picture without any shootin', but if laughs were ammunition, this Triangle play woulo wreck our house." 6 i By Your TVorks You Are Known" "Madam Who" "A Man's Man" "Patriotism" "Carmen of the Klondike' RECENT PRODUCTIONS "Turn of a Card" "Alimony" "The One Woman" "More Trouble" "The Bells" "Sierra of the Sixties" "All Wrong" THE BRUNTON STUDIOS ROBERT BRUNTON CO. Melrose A^e. Los Angeles. T HE ONLY STUDIO CONCENTRATING ON THE PRODUCTION OF FEATURE O THE EXCLUSION OF ALL OTHER DETA JREQ Productions made by contract. Perfect facilities for individual producing units with or without contractees supervision.