Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1959)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1959
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000288
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:
December 02, 2023
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14 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, November 24, 195$ *> THE GREATEST INDIAN FILMS "Pather Panchali" "Aparajito" "The World of Apu" THE GREATEST JAPANESE FILMS "Rashomon" "Gate of Hell" "Ugetsu" "Street of Shame" "Golden Demon" "Phantom Horse" Set Up a Japanese Film Festival For Immediate Booking Write or Phone Edward Harrison 1501 Broadway New York City Tel.: La 4-1318 ASTRAL FILMS LTD. TORONTO. CANADA Distributors of EUROPEAN MOTION PICTURES ASTRAL FILMS LTD. IZZY ALLEN JERRY SOLWAY OFFICES IN ALL EXCHANGE CENTERS 'Golden Age' Had Colorful Campaign by ROBERT YOUNGSON As this is written, "The Golden Age of Comedy," a cavalcade of the great silent comedies that made the Roaring Twenties roar with laughter is nearing the end of its second year of release in the United States — and its popularity at the boxoffice shows no sign of waning. By public demand, some theatres have rebooked it three and four times. Life Magazine devoted two full pages to it. Both Steve Allen and Jack Paar have plugged it on TV. Paar no less than four times. Fourteen U. S. critics included it in their lists of the ten best films of the year. "The Golden Age" has played or is about to play in almost every free nation of the world. Its reception in England, Italy and Holland has been particularly enthusiastic. The French version, with a commentary by Rene Clair, is in its tenth record week on the Champs Elysees just two weeks ago, it set a new boxoffice mark in Bombay, India. The success of "The Golden Age" is particularly satisfying to me because this picture is the result of a seven-year dream. It is also the result of screening and re-screening some 2,000 reels of film. Much of this mountain of material was previewed before invited audiences, so that their laughter could help me select the funniest episodes of all. It is these episodes, carefully edited and refaced, that make up the eight reels of "The Golden Age of Comedy." The secret of "The Golden Age's" success lies, I believe, in this painstaking method of selection. Over the past two years, I have been repeating the process, screening some 2,500 newly uncovered reels to prepare a sequel entitled "When Comedy Was King" which will soon be ready for release. All my efforts would have been in vain however, had there not been some way to let the public know that "The Golden Age" was not merely a few old films cheaply strung together but something special. Ben Adler provided the answer to this problem. His ads, his posters and accessories and his press book gave "The Golden Age" just the kind of colorful, explicit, high grade exploitation it needed. // RAOUL J. LEVY SALUTES BEN ADLER AND THANKS HIM FOR HIS NATIONAL CAMPAIGNS ON AND GOD CREATED WOMAN NIGHT HEAVEN FELL LOVE IS MY PROFESSION CONGRATULATIONS TO 1 BEN ADLER ADVERTISING SERVICE QUALITY ELECTROTYPE CORPORATION j ELECTROTYPES STEREOTYPES PLASTIC PLATES AND MATRICES 250 W. 54th St., New York 19 Tel. Circle 5-7602 GOOD LUCK To BEN ADLER On His 30th Anniversary In The Motion Picture Industry • RITEWAY PHOTOPRINT COMPANY 1465 BROADWAY NEW YORK 36, N. Y. PE 64895 ljS