Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1934
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000177
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A New York-based daily trade paper published by Martin Quigley. The companion to Quigley's better known weekly publication, MOTION PICTURE HERALD, and a direct competitor to THE FILM DAILY, which was also published out of New York. Established in 1930, MOTION PICTURE DAILY enjoyed a circulation of roughly 5,000 readers most years of its four decades in print (a nearly identical circulation to THE FILM DAILY, but only one third of the readership of MOTION PICTURE HERALD, which reached a wider audience of exhibitors). In the 1930s, the MOTION PICTURE DAILY's editor, Maurice Kann, called on the movie industry to shift more production back to the East Coast. Any productions that filmed in New York received ample attention. New York City never regained its production lead over Hollywood, but the major studios used the Big Apple for their corporate and distribution headquarters. As a result, MOTION PICTURE DAILY tended to focus on economic and regulatory issues confronting the film industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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To ooir President, W. RAY JOHNSTON IT has been our pleasure to be associated with you in the motion picture business for a good many years. This year marks your twentieth anniversary in the industry. A few of us have had the privilege of working with you during the entire twenty years. Many of js have worked with you for ten years or more. We felt honored to be identified with you then; we feel lonored to be identified with you now. i Mr. Johnston, you are now embarked on one of the oiggest enterprises of your career — the direction of •he activities of Monogram Pictures Corporation. We take this opportunity to thank you for your inspiring leadership. We wish also to pay tribute to Trem Carr, vice president in charge of production, and his executive staff, headed by Lou Ostrow, for the steady mprovement in the quality of Monogram Pictures. vlr. Johnston, we appreciate the way you have given o generously and unsparingly of your time, thought and effort to make the Monogram Company the leadng independent company and a dominant factor in rhe motion picture sun. To show what this means to js, we are doing everything in our power to make the vlonogram Company all that you hope it to be. n a word, Mr. Johnston, we are with you to a man. MEN of MONOGRAM ALBANY ATLANTA BOSTON BUFFALO CALGARY CHARLOTTE CHICAGO CINCINNATI CLEVELAND DALLAS DENVER DETROIT INDIANAPOLIS KANSAS CITY LITTLE ROCK LOS ANGELES MILWAUKEE MINNEAPOLIS MONTREAL NEW ORLEANS NEW YORK NEW HAVEN OKLAHOMA CITY OMAHA PHILADELPHIA PITTSBURGH PORTLAND SAINT JOHN SAINT LOUIS SALT LAKE CITY SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE TAMPA TORONTO VANCOUVER WASHINGTON WINNIPEG