Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1916)

Record Details:

Title:
Picture Play Magazine
Date:
Mar-Aug 1916
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Street & Smith
Volume:
Picture-Play Magazine
Leaf #:
00051
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines, Early Cinema, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Began publishing in 1915; mid-level fan magazine on par with Movie Classic and Screenland. Cost a twenty five cents an issue up until pricing pressure from New Movie (c. 1932) incited an across-the-board price decrease to 10 cents. Merged with Charm in 1941, which would later become Glamour magazine (1959). -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

The Ince Studios 37 lars' worth of film had traveled through the camera. You know we all admit that the most inexorable, exacting, truthtelling, uncompromising producer in the business is the camera. Those feet — Lord, we'd be sued for libel by the actress and mobbed by the public if they ever get to the public !" "And there is no way to amputate them 'successfully?" "Perhaps. That is our problem just now — one of them." We could see the Indian encampment from where we were walking. Mr. Ince noticed me looking at it. ''Quite a tribe, isn't it?" he asked. I admitted that it was, and again he smiled. "And quite an expense, too," he added. "Their forefathers may have lived on what they could gather in the forests or plains, but the twentieth-century Indian don't believe in such things. They like to hunt only as long as it is sport for them. I have time, I like to study them. Most of our Indian scenarios are based upon the tales which have been told them by their ancestors, and the ideas are really quite new to the screen, so I consider them a valuable asset." We started to ascend the large hill at the side of the studios, and directly below us I noticed a set that reminded me of a Fifth Avenue mansion. I remarked about its costliness, and Mr. Ince said that it probably totaled close to a thousand dollars to complete it. This staggered me, but not as much as when he added: "And we only used forty feet of film we took in it, too." "It doesn't always cost so much, though," he went on, as he noticed the expression on my face. "Every now and then we get a scenario that calls for almost all exterior locations, and then the cost of production is surprisingly low. We spend money whenever we have to, d no other time." o s e few words ex There seldom passes a day that a house of some kind is not hurned or blown up at one of the Ince studios. This one was a real three-story structure.