Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1940)

Record Details:

Title:

Motion Picture Daily

Date:

Jan-Mar 1940

Publisher:

New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]

Volume:

Motion picture daily

Leaf #:

000152

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:

November 03, 2022