The Film Daily (1918)

Record Details:

Title:
The Film Daily
Date:
1918
Publisher:
New York, Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc.
Volume:
The Film Daily (Jul-Dec 1918)
Leaf #:
000730
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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26 a!d!!i DAILY Sunday, November 17, 1918 Not For Family Circle But Will No Doubt Pull a Certain Element The Box Office Analysis for the Exhibitor Enid Markey and Edward Coxen in "MOTHER, I NEED YOU" Carlton Prod— Ernest Shipman, Dist. While this has been handled as a preachment and a lesson to mothers and their daughters, I have a hunch that the producers figured that it might make money b«* cause of the nude stuff and the delicate situations involved. Although these have been rather well handled, they leave no doubt as to the thought presented and this fact is very apt to invite a run-in with local censor boards. While the moral effect of this is very apt to be questioned and the offering is certainly not the thing to show in a community house catering to family patronage, it will undoubtedly be a clean-up in sections where the sensational stuff pulls business. I have no doubt but what the class of house which thrives best on this type of offering will find that the chief advertising value of the production lies in the Eden scenes which show Eve in the nude and the curious gang that is pulled in by this feature of the production is not likely to object to the rest of the offering, and although they will undoubtedly find it tiresome to sit through they will more than likely remain in their seats at the end of the film to see the nude allegory over again. This production was made over a year ago under the title, "The Curse of Eve," at that time presented in ten reels although it was never released. It has been cut down to approximately six reels as presented for review and while some of the objectionable situations have been deleted and covered up by titles, the general effect of the offering shows little improvement except that it is in a better moneymaking length. . , — T23 I Q The only studio concentrating on the production of features to the exclusion of all other details. Productions made by contractPerfect facilities for individual producing units with or without contract ees supervision The BRUNTON STUDIOS ROBERT BRUNTON COMPANY Melrose Avenue :: Los Angeles "By Your Works You Are Known' Recent Productions "Madam Who" "A Mans Man" "Patriotism" "Carmen of the Klondike" "Turn of a Card'' ' 'A limony'' ' "The One Woman'''' "More Trouble" "The Bells" "Sierra of the Sixties" "All Wrong"