Motion Picture News (Oct 1915)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture News
Date:
Oct 1915
Publisher:
New York, Motion Picture News, Inc.
Volume:
Motion Picture News (Oct 1915)
Leaf #:
000251
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Motion Picture News was the leading film industry trade journal during the 1920s. Founded in 1908 as a counterweight to the dominant Moving Picture World, the News was the voice for the independent, non-Trust, producers. Later Motion Picture News expanded its coverage to the entire industry, supporting the independent exhibitor with objective film reviews, summaries of programs at theatres across the nation, activities of regional exchanges in the cities with regional exchanges, and excellent coverage of the coming of sound and screenings and stage shots at the major New York City theatres. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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October 16, 1915. MOTION PICTURE NEWS 95 Listen! State Right Buyers -'S'/ ■ r A V i Of/ Latest Big Real Battle Pictures Red Hot from the Firing Lines!! THE BATTLE and FALL of WARSAW !! IN THREE REELS MOVING PICTURES OF GERMAN WAR exactly as it is— war just as the camera caught it — war as it is being waged today by the greatest fighting machine of all the ages— the culmination ot 40 years of German training. These pictures are not imaginary, they are REAL. They were not staged. Plenty swell posters, photos and slides. Also a 24-ffc. oil cloth hand-painted banner. Flashiest thing you ever saw. Read what the world’s . larges! newspaper has to say NEWYORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, f 1915 20,000 TIE UP BROADWAY TO SEE REAL WAR MOVIES Police Reserves' of F6ur Precincts Busy Opening Traffic Through Record Crowds Headed to Forty-fourth Street Theatre — 25,000 Turned Away Is Manager’s Report. |/ pictnrea Show Actual Fighting. ^ The Forty-fourth Street Theatre isl a Shubert house, but F. Ziegfeld jr., | a Klaw & Erlanger ally, had leased It Outright to show the ulctures three I WTh<f first part of tt*e pictures showed the thousands in Berlin singing “Die Wacht am Rhein" apd soldiers marching to the froht, flowers in their guns, wives and children walking behind and crowds cheering. This group included views of the commercial life of the city and closed with the Kaiser bidding goodby to the Austrian General Staff. In the pictures of actual fighting all ^ VICTORY FILM CO., Suite 603, 145 W. 45th St., New York Better to read fifty advertisements than to miss the one YOU need.