New Movies, the National Board of Review Magazine (Oct 1948 - Feb 1949)

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Wn MOVIES* -The National Board of Review Magazine OCTOBER 1943 Vol, XXIII No. 4 «2.00 a year Editorial:: The new ITETv/ MOVIES .This month, as it must to. all men, inflation has come to NEW" MOVIES. inflation leading to deflation. Oar printing, paper, and mailing costs have risen so high that we were faced with the choice of printing a very much smaller magazine, or raising our price, or of publishing -our usual complement of material in a less expensive form. We have chosen the last, believing that the information service we offer is more important to you than the 'shininess of our pages. In its new format, NEW MOVIES will actually be able to afford more space to movie news, comment and criticism than in these last constricting months. "We hope, with financial worries off our minds to make it a more stimulating magazine than ever before, and one worthy of the interest, support and loyalty our friends have always shown for.it. IN MEMORI/1M5 D.W. GRIFFITH 1876 1948 An Address delivered at the funeral of Mr. Griffith in Hollywood, July 29, 1948 CHARLES BRACKBTT author of /the. screen plays nA Foreign Affair" "The Lost Weekend" and many Others. As Acting President, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, it is my honor, this afternoon to pay tribute to a very important man. I am afraid that many of us who didn't know David Yfark Griffith personally have in the last years lost an awareness of what he meant in our industry. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that our view of ■ him has been, obscured by a* disturbing shadow, the shadow of an elderly man living In our midst, but outside the Industry That man died last Friday morning, and suddenly David Wark Griffith, pioneer and prince of directors, stood forth clearly. from the record.