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 #:
000673
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:
August 01, 2024
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ANNOUNCEMENT! (No. 656 Straight from the ShoulderTalk by Carl Laemmle, President of the Universal Pictures Corporation) I HEREWITH ANNOUNCE THAT. WHEN YOU SIGN FOR THE UNIversal Complete Service Contract in Sound, you can take your choice as to the number of years you want your contract to run . . . one year, two years, three years, four years or five years! YOU ARE NOT LIMITED TO ONE YEAR. YOU ARE NOT ASKED TO TAKE TWO, THREE, FOUR OR FIVE yea rs. BUT IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU WANT PEACE OF MIND AND ABsolute insurance for five years, it's up to you to tell the Universal salesman so. THERE ARE NO STRINGS TO IT. THERE ARE NEVER ANY STRINGS to any Universal policy. THE CONTRACT IS SO SIMPLE THAT IT REQUIRES NO ANALYSIS. It plainly and simply gives you the right to any and all Universal product with the exception of Super Specials, Laemmle Specials and Newsreels. These are sold on a separate contract. YOU GET FEATURE PICTURES . . . YOU GET THE GREATEST WESTerns on the market . . . you get the serials . . . you get Junior Jewels . . . you get 2-reel specials . . . you get single reel comedies, even including the marvelous Oswald cartoons . . . you get 2-reel featurettes . . . you get a complete program, exactly as the name Complete Service implies. ALL THE MYSTERY . . . AND THE BUNK ABOUT SOUND PICTURES and their prohibitive cost ... all these things are laid low in one full swoop by this announcement. UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS NEW COMPLETE SERVICE CONTRACT in Sound, you get more than you would have had the nerve to ask for if you had written the contract yourself. FURTHERMORE, THESE PICTURES ARE FURNISHED EITHER WITH film or disc! THERE NEVER WAS SUCH A REVOLUTIONARY STEP IN THE Business since sound came into it. I DONT CARE A RAP WHETHER YOU SIGN UP FOR ONE YEAR or five. That's for you to decide. It all depends on your own particular situation. I HAVE ONLY ONE WARNING NOTE TO SOUND AND THAT IS this: — The contracts are now deluging us. If you want this contract, you must hurry up about it. If your competition beats you to it, it will simply be too bad, that's all. IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO WIRE YOUR HOUSE, MAKE YOUR Application for this contract NOW! HERE S WHAT YOU GET! 1929-30 PRODUCT LAURA LA PLANTE IN 3 JOHN BOLES IN 2 JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT IN 3 REGINALD DENNY IN 2 MARY NOLAN IN 4 GLENN TRYON and MERNA KENNEDY IN 3 GEORGE LEWIS and BARBARA KENT IN 2 THE DRAKE CASE GIRL OVERBOARD THE LAST PERFORMANCE THE CLIMAX THE HOMICIDE SQUAD THE DEVIL'S PIT KEN MAYNARD IN 8 HOOT GIBSON IN 8 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (REISSUED IN SOUND) SHORT SUBJECTS TWO REELS 12 SPORTING YOUTH 12 FOURTH COLLEGIANS 6 PAT ROONEYS 10 SUNNY JIMS 10 ALL-STAR Serials: ACE OF SCOTLAND YARD TARZAN THE TIGER THE JADE BOX THE LIGHTNING EXPRESS TERRY OF THE TIMES ONE REEL 7 BENNY RUBINS 26 OSWALD CARTOONS SILENT FIVE REELS JACK HOXIE IN 3 WILLIAM DESMOND IN 3 (REISSUES) TWO REELS 10 SID SAYLORS 10 ARTHUR LAKES 52 ACTION WESTERNS ONE REEL 26 CREAM of the COMEDIES (REISSUES)