Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1960
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000323
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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WILL BE A SURE BOXOFFICE HIT." Mot/on Picture Exhibitor 1 IS BRIGHT, SOPHISTICATED COMEDY... THE KIND OF PICTURE THEY WILL TALK ABOUT FOR LONG AND OFTEN, AND WILL BE URGING OTHERS TO SEE . . . DESTINED TO MAKE BUSY PLACES OF THEATRES IN THE MONTHS AHEAD FOR LONG RUNS AND STRONG BOXOFFICE." m***. "SOLID ENTERTAINMENT THROUGHOUT WITH CHARM AND HILARITY... COLORFUL, IMPRESSIVE AND PLENTY OF AMUSEMENT FOR EVERYBODY... SHOULD GIVE UNIVERSAL A REVENUE SOURCE ON A PAR WITH 'PILLOW TALK' AND 'OPERATION PETTICOAT.' AND THAT GOES FOR EXHIBITORS TOO." Boxoffi«e "A ROLLICKING THOROUGHLY DELIGHTFUL AND FAST-STEPPING COMEDY... WITH CRACKING DIALOGUE WHICH SPARKS AND SPICES THE FILM... VERY LIKELY TO BRING IN VERY LIVELY BUSINESS..." Motion Picture Herald "BRIGHT, EASY-FLOWING COMEDY WITH TOP FLIGHT MAROUEE CAST, ONE THAT WILL BRING AN INVITING TWINKLE TO ANY SHOWMAN'S MAROUEE . . . THE STAR PERFORMERS SHINE BRIGHTLY. SOLID BOXOFFICE PROSPECTS." From UNIVERSAL... for a GREENER CHRISTMAS!