Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1920)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Classic
Date:
Jan-Dec 1920
Publisher:
Brooklyn, N.Y. : M.P. Pub. Co.
Volume:
Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1920)
Leaf #:
000808
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Fan Magazines, and Early Cinema
Format:
Books
Contributor:
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, PFA Library and Film Study Center
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
First issue in 1915; absorbed Shadowland in November 1923; became Movie Classic in September 1931. -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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The Home Stretch' LIKE a throng of eager spectators at the finish of a race, our readers crowd against the fence and anxiously await the outcome of the Fame and Fortune Contest of 1920, which has been running in The Motion Picture Classic, The Motion Picture Magazine and Shadowland for some time past. The contest closed on the first day of August, 1920, and every one interested in it— and that is saying thousands of people from coast to coast — await the decision of the judges with much anticipation. , , ^ ,, ^, The judges, consisting of Mary Pickford, Mme. Ulga Petrova Howard Chandler Christy, Thomas Ince, J. Stuart Blackton, Maurice Tourneur, Samuel Lumiere, Carl Laemmle, Jesse Lasky, David Belasco, Blanche Bates and Eugene V. Brewster, will meet the honor roll members of the contest at the I.ong Island estate of Eugene V. Brews t e r and will watch the contestants while they are given a t h o r o camera test. The lucky winners will then be chosen, and, as soon after as possible, the announcement' will (Vorty-six)