Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1950)

Page scan 000256 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Apr-Jun 1950
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000256
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:
May 30, 2024
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INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR OF MANY QUESTIONS Our industry is deep in the making of decisions in reorganization under the law and the courti and deep in the problems of competition within the art and amid the other arts of entertair ment. Every decision demands facts. The Almanac, essential always, is a necessity now. And many changes have come. Conside the contents of the twenty-second issue, now coming up: WHO'S WHO, new ones are arriving. . . . CORPORATIONS, a lot of them are being mad over THEATRE CIRCUITS, and how different! . . . SERVICES, all still urgent, growing changing. . . . PICTURES, that living catalogue of product. . . . EQUIPMENT AND MAT I RIALS, of which you need lots. . . . REORGANIZATIONS, sequels to the Federal suit. . TRADE ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS, shaping and reshaping THE WORLI MARKET, which comes to mean much at home. . . . INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN, with issue eternal. . . . NON-THEATRICAL PICTURES, marching on and on. . . . TELEVISION ANl RADIO, bound whither? . . . AND MANY MORE. No other source in the world has as many of the answers as The Almanac, with its twenty-om years of publication, produced by an organization which was born the year of "The Birth of Nation" and the year of the birth of the modern industry— The yearbook that goes aroum the world. QUICLEY PUBLI CAT I O N S Rockefeller Center New York City