Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1959)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Apr-Jun 1959
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00086
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 10, 2022
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QUIGLEY PUBLICATIONS IN THE SERVICE OF THE AMERICAN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD FOR 44 YEARS © MOTION PICTURE HERALD Foremost business weekly of the American motion picture industry .. . intensively national, extensively international in scope and circulation. Better Theatres — original and most authoritative publication devoted to the physical theatre, issued monthly as a section of the Herald. Better Refreshment Merchandising — monthly section of the Herald devoted to theatre vending, originating in a refreshment news department installed in the Herald in 1930. MOTION PICTURE DAILY Providing the industry with immediate spot news coverage, fully — and accurately — with a typographical scheme for easy finding, easy reading. International MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC Who's-Who and statistical annual of the motion picture industry, widely used within the industry, by the press and by research organizations in the U. S. and abroad. International TELEVISION ALMANAC Statistical annual of the television and radio industry — a complete reference book on its companies, activities, personalities. FAME Annual audit of personalities of motion pictures and television in the U. S. and Great Britain, presenting the monthly and annual motion picture Box Office Champions.