Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1941)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1941
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000121
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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What's Your Temperature The motion picture is a business. It seems well to say this, because so much that we may read, hear, and see tends to an impression that it is a fever. The United States has been built by business, ever improving business^-conducted with sane diligence, working for profits and ultimately successful in just the degree with which it has rendered service with a level-eyed policy of producing and selling on terms that have delivered margins of satisfaction at each step from plant to customeD—consistently, continuously. Republic Pictures Corporation is a business. This corporation was founded for the sole purpose of making reasonable profits for a long time. To make profits for a long time requires a consistent delivery of satisfaction to the customers. That calls for product that can be counted on, so made that it can be sold at prices consistent with the market, delivered on a policy which recognizes the mutual interests of buyer and seller, on the long pull. !R.epublic intends always to make money out of its customers, and expects to do that always because the customers have taken profits out of Republic product. Six years of Republic experience show that a great many showmen like to buy profits, that more every year recognize sound, staple product made on performance, even if the field does glitter with gilded promises. Business is the American way of constructive service of the whole people. It is the American way to pay and get what it pays for. !R.epubIic is a business because it serves, enables the theatre to be a business. There is no substitute for profits REPUBLIC PICTURES CORPORATION BUY U. S. DEFENSE BONDS