Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1955)

Page scan 00019 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1955
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00019
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 14, 2025
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The results, beyond our fondest dreams, are: The Horizontal VistaVision Camera — and the complete conversion of our Studio to this system. Ten VistaVision pictures already completed. A few weeks ago, the top executives of our worldwide sales and advertising departments came to Hollywood and viewed these ten productions. They were extremely enthusiastic over what they saw. So eager were they to spread the proof of the outstanding values in these pictures and of the amazing merits of the Horizontal VistaVision Camera, that they urged the Studio to prepare a Special Film containing the highlights of the pictures. Running 20 minutes, this Special Film is nearing completion and is titled: Paramount Presents VistaVision MOTION PICTURE 1 HIGH FIDELITY A Product Featurette We are arranging trade showings of this film for exhibitors and will subsequently furnish prints, without charge, to theatres for the entertainment of their audiences. I sincerely believe that this is a most important film. I think that, seeing it, you will visualize for the first time A New World In Motion Pictures and its vast potentialities. I am confident that, having seen it, you will agree that the real technical and financial future of our industry rests upon the ultimate photographing and projecting of motion pictures standardized on the principles of the HORIZONTAL VISTAVISION CAMERA. President, Paramount Pictures Corporation