Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1911)

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Oct-Dec 1911
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1911)
Leaf #:
000604
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
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:
January 11, 2024
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598 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD Let us help decorate your lobby Jor the holidays — Mail us the couf.cn in the lower, left-hand corner Thanhouser Cut This Memo Out and Paste it Over Your Desk I 1 I MEMO Unless I want to miss them, I must ask my exchange NOW i j for "LADY FROM THE SEA," Ibsen Psychological Study. (Rel'dTues. I * Dec. 12) "CINDERELLA," Greatest Film Fairy Story. (Rel'd Fri . j ■ Dec . 23) "SHE, " Rider Haggard • s Mystery Masterpiece in 2 Gorgeous, ' I Mystifying Reels. (No. 1, Tues. Dec. 26), (No. 2, Tues. Jan. 2.) I Released Tuesday, November 28 THE TEMPEST Shakespere's Thanhouser Co.. New Roihell *,N,y. Send tne KREE Lobby Decoration! for your "Greatest December" features. I ^^ not getting"TheThan houser News." Numi Don't Forget the G R EATEST in Film History DECEMBER Complete in One Reel Here is another in the TTianhouser Shakesperean series that you'd better get busy featuring. The storm effects are exquisite — easily better than any ever seen in a stage production of this play. The subject gives chances aplenty for pretty settings and you'll see that our producers utilized them to the extreme. The story is a very smooth-running, simple and familiar one. It will be relished in all corners of the house. Released Friday, December 1 The Story of a Test Beneath the Veil She faced him and tried him. He encompassed the trial successfully and furnished this film with its great big climax. She was a dashing beauty and he — an artist who loved the beautiful— loved her for her good looks alone. She lost these in a sudden accident. And with her pretty face she lost him. At least she appeared to lose him. and here came his great trial. The film describes it fittingly and prettily pictures its very dainty sequel 12 (Tues.) LADY FROM THE SEA 22 ( Fri. ) CINDERELLA 26 (Tues.) "SHE" Address.^ Ctchange. THANHOUSER COMPANY New Rochelle, N. Y. Sales Company Agents for U. S. and Canada