Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1934)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1934
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000696
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 29, 2022
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"Old Fashioned DieHards" Sirs: LET ME BE ONE OF THE FIRST TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR ANNOUNCEMENT THAT YOU WILL ENTER THE MOTION PICTURE FIELD STOP I KNOW YOU WILL DO A GOOD JOB AND THAT YOU WILL PROVE TO A LOT OF OLD FASHIONED DIEHARD HALF MUMMIFIED PROFESSORS AND OTHER SUPPOSED TO. BE EDUCATORS IN THIS COUNTRY THAT BY THE USE OF PICTURES AND RADIO YOU CAN REEDUCATE MANY MILLIONS NOT WORRY TRES ALL TRES WILLI Sirs: As a regular reader of TIME, I am much interested in having THE MARCH OF TIME shown at our Emboyd Theatre this city. Here's hoping we may have the pleasure of seeing the first picture issue and that it proves as interesting and successful as TIME Magazine. Yours truly, S. P. H., M.D. Fort Wayne, Indiana Sirs: C. C.l 63 TOI SAN Fl Sirs: Your announc most interesting, productions showil Cordis YOUR 1HtMRE Frenzied Impatience Sirs: Am enormously interested in TIME's brilliant new venture, THE MARCH OF TIME, Inc. As a resident of a small Indiana city I'm hoping that its showing will not be confined to metropolitan areas. A large group of TIME-readers and MARCH OF TIME enthusiasts are awaiting the debut of your first reel in termed a frenzy of impa■ill petition the manager of iccordingly. E and FORTUNE'S ts, allow me to wish the world to the , Inc., knowing that igress with the same lerived from the suIfTIME "Letters"— is of TIME. A Toast Sirs: I have just finished listening to your MARCH OF TIME program, which holds me enthralled for thirty minutes each Friday night — I only wish it were sixty minutes in length. Needless to say, I shall look forward with anticipation for your MARCH OF TIME Newsreel. I only hope our theatre manager will buy this feature — for I feel sure the people of our town would appreciate this news feature. I shall request that he book the MARCH OF TIME myself and I know my friends shall do the same. A toast to TIME's new venture — and much success to its christening. Yours truly, Mrs. J. F. 224 N. Oak Pratt, Kansas "Our Whole Family" Sirs: With reference to your announcement this evening on the MARCH OF TIME program, please be advised that I as well as our whole family will be very glad to support your new venture and sincerely hope that we may soon have the pleasure of seeing your pictures. Very truly yours, I. R. 616 Lyons Ave. Irvington, N. J. Sirs: We in this family are delighted to read that your new venture in pictorial journalism is soon to begin. The theatres at which we'd like to see the MARCH OF TIME are: the Kentucky, the Strand, and/or the Ben Ali theatres. We greatly enjoy the March of Time on Friday evenings. But your program on Nov. 30 was one of the best we've heard. Very truly yours, A. S. 1600 Richmond Road Lexington, Ken. Sirs: First Sta Secon Ohi Wishi Sirs: Pleas( ias of ti Wiscons TIME custome tise it. 1 Sirs: It is forward MARC] am sure dramati the air ii I sugg THIS MAKES HISTORY IN ALL your experience as an exhibitor have you ever heard of a motion picture being deluged with fan mail before anyone has even seen it on the screen? Yet, on the announcement of this picture, people all over the country wrote and telegraphed asking and demanding that THE MARCH OF TIME be shown their favorite theater. Look for the name of your theater these letters, Mr. Exhibitor, (the copies of those printed here are on file at our office— you can see them any time) read them carefully. You don't have to be told what a reception like this means at the box office. Released Through FIRST DIVISION The New Major HARRY A. THOMAS, Pres. in m St. Ind. 1 not cen ARCH York Any of to have Place not t will tres, ARCH heatre, Sirs: If the MARCH OF TIME m<. pictures will be like the broadcast : the magazine (TIMEn I shall endt them with enthusiasm. Yours very truly, P. K. 620 Second Str<* Brooklyn, N. Y. Sirs: The Warner Theatre in Ridgev.< the Hawthorne Theatre in Hawthoi and the Pascash Theatre in West* are the ones I patronize most often.! be glad to see THE MARCH OF TI! at any or all of them. Yours very truly, E. H. 224 Richards Roa Ridgewood, N. J. Sirs: I would like to see the MARCH TIME shown at Madison Thea Oneida, New York. Yours truly, E. A. Wampsville, N. -i Sirs: Interested in your new venture. I local theatre for showing is The Centi N. L. T. 2312 E. Federal Stre£ Baltimore, Marylanr Sirs: Have been enjoying THE MAR OF TIME over the radio and will' very pleased to hear same in the mov Yours truly, W. H. 33 Mildred Terrac Vaux Hall, N. J. Sirs: I would like to have THE MAR OF TIME exhibited at the Bronx\ Theatre, N. Y. G. C. V deG. 650 Fifth Avenu New York, N. Y would like to see ME in Motion pictu esi ami nope i OF TIME may be shown in Indianapolis at Loew's Palace Theatre. With best wishes for great success, I am Yours truly, J. L. D. 1210 Golden Hill Drive Indianapolis, Indiana 3 Cheers 3 Cheers for THE MARCH OF TIME Movies. How can we wait!! M. E. M. 1612—10 Avenue nost of ory) pr< e Balal ient to ides, we ; they h:: ants to icture wo he process to justify dence Halls for Mei 60th St. hicago. Ill EVEN BEFORE RELEASE THOUSANDS ARE DEMANDING IT