Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jul-Sep 1960
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000161
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:
December 02, 2023
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I TANT We cannot, and shall not, permit any deduction to be made from our weekly service charges by those exhibitors who for any reason whatsoever voluntarily elect to use Columbia trailers. It is of course the prerogative of any exhibitor to use Columbia's trailers but any exhibitor electing to do so, as already stated, must do so at their own expense — not at the expense of National Screen Service. There exists therefore no requirement or obligation to use Columbia's trailers, a fact which is substantiated by the following clause in Columbia's own trailer license agreement: "DISTRIBUTOR HEREBY NOTIFIES EXHIBITOR THAT EXHIBTOR MAY LICENSE ONE OR MORE TRAILERS DISTRIBUTED BY DISTRIBUTOR AND THAT EXHIBITOR IS NOT REQUIRED TO LICENSE ANY TRAILER OR TRAILERS DISTRIBUTED BY DISTRIBUTOR AS A CONDITION OF OBTAINING ANY OTHER TRAILER OR TRAILERS OR ANY OTHER MOTION PICTURE DISTRIBUTED BY DISTRIBUTOR." Thus any exhibitor who contracts with Columbia for use of their trailers, clearly does so of his own volition and must accordingly do so at his own expense — not ours. In closing I wish to state that we regret exceedingly the decision made by Columbia to handle their own advertising materials, because we intensely feel that it will impose additional hardships to exhibitors at a time when they are faced with many other serious difficulties. We shall, however, as we have always done, do everything within our ability to meet the situation in such a manner as is in the best interest of our exhibitor customer and our company. NATIONAL SCREENNSERVICE PRESIDENT