Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

Page scan 000659 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1934
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000659
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:
June 13, 2024
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! Intimate in Character Internationa! in Scope (independent in Thought 1 he Da ify N ewsp a p e r Of Motion Pictures Now Sixteen Years Old OL. L\V. NC. €1 new yocr, T till I Producers Omit LA.T.S :0X SHOWS $1,410,79 Circuits See 25% Ju leavy Additional Burden Foreseen Under Plan to Cut Hours ' Several hundred thousand dollars HH be added to operation costs of frajor circuits if the proposed 30Dur week is passed by Congress, a (ilm Daily survey shows. Circuit pecutives are now figuring an a 25 ler cent boost in overhead, lased on the cut of 25 per fent in working hours from the resent NRA maximum of 40 hours, ccording to one major circuit offijial, the average overhead in sal(Cvnlinited on Page Copies of the grievance and ; day or Monday First move Code Author, not be nati 'ELEASE DATES SET ON 13 WARNER Fl ; Release dates on 13 new tirst National features jt, taking care of th^ •:hedule to the first of 'fit includes: "Jimmy !arch 17; "Wond "Jambling Lady," IV ■tared Nurse" and i (.Continued C tionlocal :e finanh of exe way as s support een by the 'e Council, week, prelimEvide movement [he Council at a i on March 21 at kvelt, 75 socially S on Page 4) am Kanto 3 Mo v Sam Ka ) meback squired >uses, the1 ie Newtow Elmhurst, 'arner house, ueensboro Theater7 ,is headquarters, and; •itional houses. His ofgar? (.lied Tanor Holding Corp Rowland and RKO Talking endrick Handling Spring-field Theater mgfield, Mass. — Harry Kenformer vice-president of Fox ft Coast Theaters, has been !ned manager of the Fox theater 5re. O iund Turnawav business West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Basic agreement between major producers and unions Improvement is Scted by Kent in nnual Report rs first annual statement since Ionization, Fox Film Corp. reI net profit of .$1,410,793 for the veeks from April 1, 1933, effective te of the reorganization, to Dec. '0. This compares with a loss of '$7,595,100 for the 40 weeks ended Dec. 31, 1932. In making the report yesterday, President Sidney R. lent stated that the management feels the corporation "has successfully weathered a most critical period in its history and looks forward (.Continued on Page 4) FOX WESTMAST Bli IS UP 15 PER CENT West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Fox West Coast ch> cuit business is reported to be more chan 15 per cent improved as compared with this month in. 1933. Officials of the outfit look for a further improvement. Paramount to ExploitDozen Potential Stars Paramount will exploit 12 players as embryo stars with special trailers and other forms of publicity, during the next four months. The first trailer, "Stars of Tomorrow," is -completed and will be sent to all Paramount .houses this week. The (.Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 4) "Rothschild" Acclaimed George ArSSss in "The House of Rothschiid;"* 20th Century production released by United Artists,' was acclaimed by s distinguished premiere audience af the Astor Theater iast night. Reaction of the opening night low being distributed to subscribers of FHE FILM DAILY 1 650 Broadway, N. Y. C.