The Film Daily (1929)

Record Details:

Title:
The Film Daily
Date:
1929
Publisher:
New York, Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc.
Volume:
The Film Daily (Jul-Dec 1929)
Leaf #:
000531
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
This leading industry publication, published out of New York, was founded in 1915 by Wid Gunning (who called his publication Wid's Daily until 1922). The Film Daily documented the rise of the Hollywood studios, the transition to sound, and the evolution of the American film industry (the paper finally shuttered in 1970). The Film Daily included feature reviews, news stories, and advertisements, but its extensive coverage of short films in the 1920s and 30s distinguished it from other trade papers of the period. -- Eric Hoyt, 2011/2013
Date Added:
July 11, 2024
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Sui ay. September 1, 1929 Flood of Short Subjects for 1929-30 ft TYPES OF PRODUCT, fOST IN SOUND, SLATED lirty-three companies, active in iishort subject field, have combed iy known form of entertainment material as the basis of their i -1930 programs. . in anlysis of this product, as com1 by THE FILM DAILY, fol Frank R. Abrams SOUND reels 104 1 • • • Advance Prod. SOUND ilar Song Series 104 1 s Twins 1 1 SILENT ilar Song Series 104 1 merican Sound Recording Corp. SOUND >c loltlay Frolics 12 2 * » » Artclass Pictures SOUND |b Pollard Comedies 12 2 * • • Bell Pictures SOUND cs of one reelers 6 1 * # » Boll man and Grant SOUND Hin^ Overtures 26 1 i«C« 12 1 mpeo Sketches (Cartoons) . . 12 1 * # . Bray Pictures gram undetermined * # # Castle Pictures SOUND or Novelties 12 1 * * » Columbia SOUND lumbia Victor Gems 26 1 .zy Kat Cartoons 13 1 -■nier Comedi-s 13 2 lor Sensations 26 1 Iking Screen Snapshots 26 1 ly Symphonies (Cartoons) 13 1 rce Comedies 12 2 ECIALS: !3Jf r,a>' CabaJlero" with Frank Crumit. Old Man Trouble" with Jules Bledsoe. Snappy Co-Eds" with Nan Blackstone. Jailhouse Blues'* with Mamie Smith. My Wife" with Jack Wilson. '.T?'lmtf Stars." with Henry Bergman. Memories" with Lambert Murphy and Lucy Marsh. .£* ? Talkie Studio," with Buddy Doyle. Parlor Pest" with Boyce Combe. Harmony Club" with Geoffrey O'Hara. Listen Lady" with Grace LaRue and Hale Hamilton. "On the Boulevard" with Sweet and McNaughton. D,ly.. oi Man of Affairs" with Maurice Holland. ''Boy Wanted" with Joe Phillips. Hawaiian Romance" with Holona Hawaiians. "On the Levee" with Jules Bledsoe. "In the Orient" with Tony Sard's Marionettes and nine to be announced. Analysis of Short Subject Product, 1 929-30 (Representing Product of 33 Companies) Sound and Type of Product Synchronized Silent *Acts & Musical Nos 1,143 Cartoons 151 S2 (•Comedies 335 20 Magazines ". 136 Newsreels 4(a) 6(b) Novelties 213 **Scenics 50 Serials 10(c) 11(c) Sport Reels 6 Westerns & Adventures 52 t Miscellaneous 10 1 Totals 2,058(a-c) 142 (b-c) GRAND TOTAL 2.260 * Including all types of acts, songs, musical numbers, sketches, etc. t Not including comedy sketches, which are listed with acts. ** Including travel reels, nature studies, etc. t Including unclassified product. (a) Totals do not embrace the number of individual releases, of which there are 416 units, including: Fox Movietone News (208 issues); M-GM Metrotone News (52 issues) Paramount Sound Ne-^vs (52 issues); and Pathe Sound Ncti'S (104 issues). (b) Totals do not embrace the number of individual releases, of which there are 624 units, including: Fox Nctcs (104 issues); Kinograms (104 issues) ; M -G-M -International News (104 issues); Paramount News (104 issues); Pathe Netvs (104 issues) ; Universal Newsreel (104 issues). (c) Totals do not embrace the number of individual chapters. There are approxi mately 10 two-reel episodes in each serial. Disney Cartoons SOUND Powers' Pow-Wows 12 Mickey Mouse Series 18 1 * • • Educational Film Exchanges SOUND Mack Sermett Comedies 30 2 '.upino Lane Comedies 8 2 Lloyd Hamilton Comedies 12 Mermaid Film Funs 8 2 "oronet Comedies 6 2 With Edward Everett Horton lack White Comedies 6 2 Tuxedo Comedies 6 2 Lyman Howe's Hodge Podge Novelties 12 1 SILENT Kinograms (Newsreel) 104 1 * * * Ellbee Pictures SOUND F.Ilbee Comedies 18 2 » * # James A. Fitzpatrick SOUND Music Master Series 12 1 \merican Holiday Series 12 1 Traveltalks 12 1 Movie Horoscopes 12 1 SILENT Musio Master Series .' 12 1 Vmerican Holiday Series 12 1 * # * Fox Film Corp. SOUND Fox Movietone News 208 1 SILENT Fox News 104 1 * * # Walter Futter SOUND Curiosities 26 1 Novelties 26 1 * * * Great Arts Pictures SOUND Musical-dramatic shorts 13 1 * • # Home Talkie Prod. SOUND Series of dramatic sketches, vaudeville acts, jazz bands, operatic selections 18 1 * * » Imperial Pictures SOUND See Ufa Eastern Dist., Inc. Intern'l Photoplay Dist., Inc. SOUND Sound Shorts Series, 16 1 and 2 * • # Mascot SOUND "King of Kongo," serial in 10 chapters, each two reels. Four other serials in dialogue, sing ing, sound effects each in 10 two reel chapters. » # « Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer SOUND Harry Langdon-Roach Comedies . . 8 2 Charley Chase-Roach Comedies ... 8 2 Our Gang-Roach Comedies 8 2 Laurel & Hardy-Roach Comedies . . 8 2 Colortone Revues in Technicolor. .. 12 2 Hearst-Metrotone News 52 1 Synchronized Our Gang-Roach Comedies 2 2 Synchronized Laurel & Hardy Comedies 2 2 Metro Movietone Acts 26 1 & 2 SILENT Our Gang-Roach Comedies ..... 2 2 Laurel & Hardy-Roach Comedies 2 2 M-G-M International Newsreel ..104 1 Paramount SOUND Christie Talking Plays 24 2 Paramount Talking Plays 6 2 Paramount Acts 32 1 Paramount Screen Songs 18 1 Paramount Talkartoons 6 1 Paramount Sound News 52 1 SILENT Paramount News 104 1 * * # Pathe Exchange, Inc. SOUND Pathe-Sound News 104 1 Pathe Audio Review 52 1 Pathe Audio Special Feature .... 1 2 George LeMaire Comedies, pro duced by and starring LeMaire 8 2 Manhattan Comedies, produced and directed by George LeMaire... 6 2 Checker Comedies, produced and directed by George LeMaire and starring Frank T. Davis.. 6 2 Variety Comedies, directed by Bradley Barker and featuring vaudeville artists in famous sketches • 8 Melody Comedies, tabloid musical comedies directed by Harry Delamr 6 2 Folly Comedies, musical miniatures produced by Frank Davis 6 Golden Rooster Comedies, featuring stage and screen celebrities 6 2 Buck & Bubbles Comediw, fr»m the stories of Hugh Wiley figuring Buck & Bubbles, colored comedians g 2 Sound Sportlight, edited by Grant land Rice 26 1 Aesoj's Sound Fables . . 26 1 Talking Topics «f the Day . . . " " 26 1 D , VT SILE<NT Pathe News j94 , Pathe Review J8 J "Black Book," Serial .' *\a \ Aesop's Film Fables s« 1 * . . •*•• mm ' Photo Kinema SOUND t-dgar Guest Poems 17 1 Radio Pictures ora ^ SOUND KCA Gramercy Shorts including seven two-reel dramas, sev«n novelty single reels, six two-reel Gramercy Comedies, six «nereel comedies by Marc Conn«lly. 24 142 Larry Darniour Comedias, including 13 "The Record Breakers" and 13 "Mickey McG«ire" Comedies ■>(, •> Radiotone Pictures SOUND Five one and two reelers each week 240 1 &2 • • • Rayart SOUND Raytone Comedies 12 2 Ray tone Novelties 12 • • • Roseland SOUND Series of one reelers 12 1 SILENT Bonzo Cartocns 26 1 • • • Gordon Sawyer Pictures SOUND Domestic Comedies 12 2 Musical Comedies 6 2 • • • Sound Film Dist. Corp. SOUND Whoopee Sketches (Cartoons) 12 1 • • • Tiffany-Stakl SOUND Color Symphonies 24 1 • • • Ufa Films SYNCHRONIZED Nature Studies 26 1 • • * Universal Pictures Corp. SOUND Pat Rooneys, with Pat Rooney, Young Pat and Marion Bent.. 6 2 Benny Rubins .• 7 1 "Cohen on the Telephone" Novelties, with George Sidney *.. 1 In An Arabian Nightclnb Novelties, with Josef Cherniavsky, et al *.. 1 Sporting Youth Comedies, Universal-Junior Jewels 12 2 "Ace of Scotland Yard" Serial ... 10 2 "Tarzan the Tiger" Serial IS 2 "Jade Box" Serial 10 2 "Lightning Express" Serial 10 2 "Terry of the Times" Serial .... 10 2 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit 2'6 1 Sunny Jim Comedies 10 2 All-Star Comedies 10 2 (*) Number in series indefinite. SILENT Sid Saylor Comedies 10 2 Arthur Lake Comedies 10 2 Pioneer Kid Westerns 13 2 Northwest Mounted Actions 13 2 Selected Westerns, miscellaneous reissues 26 2 • • • Vitaphone SOUND Approximately six subjects weekly, including vaudeville acts, opera singers, dramatic and comedy skits and playlets, jazz bands, singers and vocalists ., 312 1 and 2