Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1914)

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Jan-Mar 1914
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1914)
Leaf #:
0001378
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine
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:
Moving Picture World, founded in 1907 by J.P. Chalmers, was one of the motion picture industry's first trade papers. Published on a weekly basis in New York City, Moving Picture World informed exhibitors about films available for rental and editorialized on behalf of the growing industry (improving the quality of movies through higher filmmaking standards, not government censorship, was a frequent topic). The paper reached its height in the mid-to-late-1910s--a fact reflected in the circulation figures and the huge amount of advertising that filled every issue during the period. In the 1920s, Moving Picture World lost ground to other competing weekly trade papers -- including Variety, Exhibitor's Herald, and Motion Picture News. In 1927, Moving Picture World ceased publication when it was acquired by Martin Quigley's Exhibitor's Herald. Across the 20 year run of Moving Picture World, readers can watch the transition from short film programs to feature films and witness the transition from the dominance of Edison's Trust to the rise of the "Independent" film companies that ultimately became the Hollywood studios. Silent film historians have utilized and cited Moving Picture World more frequently than any other trade paper, and the publication still has many insights left to offer. -- Eric Hoyt, 2012/2013
Date Added:
November 30, 2023
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1336 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD ALAN DALE The Celebrated Dramatic Critic, Writes in the 1 New York American of Sunday, February i^th, 1914 / \ I had an awfully good time at the opening of the Vitagraph Theatre. It seemed like a new experience, with a certain piquancy to it. Nothing to do but look ! Plays were there, wihout voices, and the very silence was enjoyable. Then one's imagination was allowed to work so agreeably. I prefer my own imagination to the "words" that are cast on the screen. Sometimes these words, banal and trite, spoil the illusion. In pictures one can imagine such a lot! I love them when they don't dot the i's and cross the t's. The Vitagraph pictures ^. were certainly very beautiful ones, writhout a flicker in them. Alan Dale is right: — The pictures shown at the Vitagraph Theatre and all other theatres that use the Power's Cameragraph No. 6A are shown "without a flicker.** Projection of motion pictures is always subject to criticism when the picture is marred with flicker or jump. You can secure yourself against this criticism by installing POWER'S CAMERAGRAPH No. 6 A, the motion picture projecting machine without an equal. Inform yourself of our patented intermittent movement and other distinctive features of this perfect machine, all details of which are given in our illustrated catalog G. NICHOLAS POWER COMPANY Ninety Gold Street, New York City ■¥( M