The Film Daily (1921)

Record Details:

Title:
The Film Daily
Date:
1921
Publisher:
New York, Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc.
Volume:
The Film Daily (Jan-Jun 1921)
Leaf #:
000908
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:
September 21, 2023
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The Path Ahead Vast in accomplishment, superb as the newest art has developed, so the path ahead looms portentuously for the director of moving pictures. Brilliant as the future seems for all other forms of artistic endeavor, none possesses that great opportunity which awaits the genius of direction. For he will be aided with many inventions; assisted by many developments in which lighting, properties, even color, will be but a part. Far, far from the roof studios in downtown New York, with their meagre, impossible appointments of yesterday are tremendous studios of to-day. And those that are to come will be as marked in their advancement and improvement as these of to-day loom over their predecessors. For the art of the camera has but found its first development. What the future holds, what the path ahead leads to, no man knows; no one can foretell. 16