Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1941)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1941
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000187
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:
October 27, 2022
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mm N. Y. TIMES, JAN. 27, 1941 Ccf m Prices Brings Gain For 'Gone With the Wind* THE MIRACLE OF SHOW BUSINESS! A year later! But the same crowds, cops, cash! A year later! And "GWTW" tops its own records! Last week the first 13 engagements Electrified the industry and held over! Now a 3rd week is announced! (Boston, St. Louis, Washington, Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, Worcester) And every new opening is terrific! (Baltimore, Akron, Canton, Providence, Waterbury, Memphis, Kansas City, etc.) And each one a hold-over! No matter how long a period It played previously It's as though it never played before! And an interesting development is that Small towns are even topping the big towns! There has never been anything like it! It will never happen again in our lifetime! Give it everything youVe got of showmanship! It's the miracle of show business. "Gone With the Wind" registered 10,432 more paid admissions on the first two days, last Thursday and Friday, of its return engagement at the Capitol than in the comparable period when it first opened at the theatre in December, 1939. Matinee receipts were $1,017 above the original receipts, notwithstanding that current admissions represent a 50 per cent reduction in the original price scale. Attendance increases of 30 per cent and increases of from 10 to 15 per cent in receipts also were reported in Cleveland, Ohio; Worcester, Mass. ; Bridgeport, Conn., and other representative cities, according to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the distributors.