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 #:
000112
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
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I ' . AN ENLARGED AND IMPROVED PICTURE-PLAY MAGAZINE TO BE ISSUED MONTHLY Picture-Play Magazine will be made larger and be vastly improved, beginning with the issue that will appear on your news stand on March ioth. In its new form this magazine will be issued once — on the tenth — every month. Because of the added pages and the general improvement, the price of Picture-Play Magazine will be fifteen cents instead of ten, but, as the issues will be once instead of twice each month, the amount you spend will be reduced from twenty to fifteen cents — and what you will receive will be worth a great deal more. By giving you a large number of special feature articles — all profusely illustrated — about the players and what they are doing, and about motion pictures in general, as well as stories from the feature films and the regular interesting and instructive departments— in short, by giving you what you want in a motion-picture publication — Picture-Play Magazine will be by far the best magazine of its kind that you can get, in every way. See opposite page for details of tbe first issue of the better magazine