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 #:
0001529
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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Wednesday, June 29, 1921 IK** \ DAlUV filial xvened at Minneapolis, Minn IE MICROSCOPE him how little he really is, by making ourselves so much bigger. He is not the bad, bad bogeyman he would have us believe — not by a long shot. His theatres are not better than ours nor are his pictures. All he really has is MONEY — and that is dwindling so fast that he has had to practically turn Highwayman. He is only standing behind the microscope of advertising, and if you'll peek behind you will find that he is not near as big as we — and KNOWS IT! But he doesn't know that we know it, so let's show him ! Let's hold our ground, hold our theatres, hold our producing units and the first thing you know he'll be asking us to let him play in our yard. We have pictures and theatres — thousands and the best. We have the ability and desire to satisfy the Public's wish for clean and human photoplays. Let's give it to them and forget all about the MAN BEHIND THE MICROSCOPE. I sure would like to be with you fellows out there in Minneapolis, but I feel that I am where I can do US the most good. I am opening "THE TWICE BORN WOMAN" at the New York Hippodrome. You will read more about it later in this paper. Mr. Wall Street could probably tell you how many pictures of his were turned down to let this feature run. That's my first shot — let's lay down a barrage and pretty soon the MAN BEHIND THE MICROSCOPE will be "irised" to fadeout size. Signed (JULIUS SINGER)