Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1914)

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Oct-Dec 1914
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1914)
Leaf #:
000623
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:
September 21, 2023
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THE' MOVING PICTURE WORLD 591 ALFRED SUTRO'S PLAY OF MODERN SOCIETY The Walls of Jericho Picturized from the James K. Hackett success produced at the Hackett Theatre, New York. The story is a modernization and a practical application of the biblical story, "When the priests blew with their trumpets, the walls of Jericho fell down flat." This masterpiece of dramatic literature is a powerful screen vehicle for EDMUND BREESE Lately starred on Broadway in "The Master Mind" and remembered as the original John Ryder in "The Lion and the Mouse." In "The Walls of Jericho," as Jack Frobisher, the rich Australian sheep raiser who marries a noblewoman, he cries, tearing down the walls obscuring his wife's heart and soul: "I've been poor, foolish Jack, who didn't play cards, or waltz. But the first fop who came along, the first smirking dandy, who could whisper and ogle and tell you a tit-bit of scandal, he was amusing and pleasant. He thought it right that you should lose hundreds at cards and spend a fortune on dress. Your brother seduces a girl — you are indignant with me because I befriend her. The people around you — the poor, the helpless, the sick — to these you give never a thought. You are a peer's daughter, sent into the world to enjoy yourself, have a good time with Dallases round to fiirt with. It's been pleasure, pleasure, pleasure from morning till night, from one year's end to another. Well, I say to Hell with all this! You are my wife, not my mistress. I want a mate and a partner. We'll leave this rotten life. We'll go back to Nature, and start things over again." Big Line of Advertising Matter Arrange for Bookings Now TELEPHONE, WRITE OR WIRE TO The Box Office Attractions Co. William Fox, President Executive Offices: 130 W. 46th Street, New York EXCHANGES OPERATING IN NEW YORK, 13(1 West 46th St. Phone DALLAS, 1907 Commerce St. Phone South SYRACUSE, Eckel Theatre Bldg. Phone Bryant 7340. Western Main 2066. Warren 119. CHICAGO, Mailers Bldg. Phone Central MINNEAPOLIS, Jewelers Exchange Bldg. BOSTON 10-12 Piedmont St. Phone Ox171fi * Phone Northwestern Nicollet 2498. ford 6254. ST-. LOUIS 3632 Olive St. Phones Bell KANSAS CITY, 928 Main St. Phones Bell. CLEVELAND, Columbus Bldg. Phones Tmddl 795; Kii^och Delmar 4363. Main 1008; Home Main 7253. Main 5677; Central 6260 R. SAN FRANCISCO, 107 Golden Gate Ave. ' Phone Market 4880. DtNVtK, Ideal Bldg. Phone Main 5071. PHILADELPHIA, 1333 Vine St. Phone PITTSBURGH, 121 Fourth Ave. Phone SEATATLE, 1214 Third Ave. Phone ElliWalnut 4503-4. Court 1302. ott 1039.