Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1934
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000600
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
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:
A New York-based daily trade paper published by Martin Quigley. The companion to Quigley's better known weekly publication, MOTION PICTURE HERALD, and a direct competitor to THE FILM DAILY, which was also published out of New York. Established in 1930, MOTION PICTURE DAILY enjoyed a circulation of roughly 5,000 readers most years of its four decades in print (a nearly identical circulation to THE FILM DAILY, but only one third of the readership of MOTION PICTURE HERALD, which reached a wider audience of exhibitors). In the 1930s, the MOTION PICTURE DAILY's editor, Maurice Kann, called on the movie industry to shift more production back to the East Coast. Any productions that filmed in New York received ample attention. New York City never regained its production lead over Hollywood, but the major studios used the Big Apple for their corporate and distribution headquarters. As a result, MOTION PICTURE DAILY tended to focus on economic and regulatory issues confronting the film industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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MOTION PICTURE DAILY Tuesday, March 20, 1934 Short Subjects "Little Miss Mischief (Vitaphone) A one-reel "Pepper Pot" novelty depicting a day in the life of a little girl, the various pranks she plays, the tangles she gets herself into, and the attention she requires from her parents. Fairly amusing. Running time, 7 mins. "Shanghaied" (Walt Disney-U. A.) This is a Mickey Mouse "thriller" which will keep the youngsters on the edge of their seats and monopolize the attention of their elders. Mickey and Minnie Mouse are held captive aboard a pirate ship, the villainous captain of which has designs on Minnie. A rescue, of course, is effected by Mickey, who bests not only the savage captain but the entire crew of pirates as well. Running time, 7 mins. "Broadway Brevities" (Universal) Another Mentone Production directed to Milton Schwarzwald with a series of vaudeville acts — The Three Girl Friends, Jim Wong Troupe, Slim Timblin, Warren Boyd, Murray Wood, Mosconi Brothers and Dorothy Van Alst, and Adelaide Hall. Ought to prove worthwhile in places where they can't have their vaudeville on the stage, if they want it. Running time, 20^4 minutes. "Roast Beef and Movies" (M-G-M) The title doesn't mean a thing. A lot of stuff is jumbled into the story, MOTION PICTURE DAILYS HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW 'Melody in Spring' (Paramount) Hollywood, March 19. — Lanny Ross, Olympic athlete and radio favorite, makes his screen debut in this. Pleasant of appearance, he renders new vocal numbers that should appeal to his many radio fans. The film is broad comedy, centered around the antics of a souvenir hunter, Charles Ruggles ; his wife, Mary Boland, and daughter, Ann Southern, with Lanny Ross adding the romantic interest. Ross is a small town singer who falls, at first sight, for Ann, visiting his home town. Ross seeks a spot on Ruggles' radio program. In addition to being a nut on collecting souvenirs, Ruggles manufactures dog biscuits, detests crooners and disapproves of Lanny. To get rid of Ross, the family ostensibly leaves for Paris, but winds up in a colorful Swiss village. Wherever they go, Ross is there. His persistence furnishes many laugh-provoking situations with the girl and boy voluntarily in jail for a happy ending effect. The picture is typical family fare, set in a picturesque mountain village background. Never serious, it balances dialogue action and situations nicely with the Ruggles-Boland team predominating in garnering laughs. George Meeker, Herman Bing, Norman Mitchell, the three Gale sisters and Helen Lund contrive to round out a clean bill of fun designed to entertain those who do not demand logic in plot. Norman McLeod directed. but the Technicolor photoplay is great and some of the dance numbers by the Albertina Rasch girls are high class. The story is tied together by George Givot, Jerry Howard and Bobby Callahan who invade a movie studio to sell a film they have made. After showing several assorted shorts in a projection room they discover the "producers" are nuts from an asylum. Running time, 17 mins. "Ha-Ha-Ha" (Paramount) Betty Boop as a dentist treating Ko-Ko, the Clown, for a toothache is the plot of this latest of the Betty Boop series. Escaping laughing gas affects Betty and Ko-Ko and spreads to the population of the city. This one should fit well on any program. Running time, 7 mins. Short Subjects "War Debts" (Beverly Hills Exchange) This three-reeler is a series of scenes showing the ravages of the Great War that fathered our present war debts. Photographed by Captain Kleinschmidt during the Austro-Russian fighting on the eastern front prior to our entry into the struggle, it offers a gripping picture of the horrors of warfare and its aftermath. Many of the scenes were evidently obtained at extreme risk of life and some of them may prove a bit too graphic for the over-sensitive. Decidedly an asset is a narrative spoken by Wilfred Lucas. Elmer Clifton is presenting this. Running time, 30 mins. "Pugs and Kisses" (Vitaphone) Charles Judels as a fight trainer and Lionel Stander as a dumb fighter furnish a pretty good series of comedy gags. When the fighter loses Judels plays a couple of tricks on him tr keep him away from women. Shemj Howard, Greta Granstedt and Tom Hughes are in the cast. Two song; numbers, "Babies Go to Town" anc "Pie Number" are introduced. It couk be funnier. Running: time, 21 mins. "County Fair" (Universal) Oswald meets a lad who gives hin a tearful story of being put out of th house. Taking pity on the youngster he takes him to the fair with hirr; There the kid makes a nuisance 6 himself, so that Oswald decides to tak him back to his folks. Pleasant, nothing more. Running time, 6 min and, of course! "THE BIGGEST MONEY MAKER IN TWO YEARS" a _ W f+ Hollywood Qsot^e A R L I S 5 R po e A DARRYL F. ZANUCK production Presented by Joseph M. Schenck THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD BORIS KARLOFF • LORETTA YOUNG • ROBERT YOUNG HELEN WESTLEY. . . and a Distinguished Cast of One Hundred. Re/eased thru UNITED ARTISTS