Motion Picture Herald (Jan-Feb 1939)

Page scan 000126 from Motion Picture Herald

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Jan-Feb 1939
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Jan-Feb 1939)
Leaf #:
000126
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:
Founded in 1915 by a Chicago printing company as a regional trade paper for Midwest exhibitors. In 1916, editor Martin Quigley bought out the owners, and over the next 15 years, he grew EXHIBITORS HERALD into one of the most important national, weekly trade papers in the film business. Quigley acquired MOTOGRAPHY in 1917 and MOVING PICTURE WORLD in 1927. In 1930, he acquired MOTION PICTURE NEWS and the new 'consolidated' publication became MOTION PICTURE HERALD. From the pulpit of his editorial page, Quigley preached the need to improve the motion picture industry and improve the quality of the films. He skillfully served as a mediator in disputes -- between distributors and exhibitors, between the film industry and the Catholic Church (Quigley was one of the architects of the Production Code). Quigley claimed that EXHIBITORS HERALD represented the 'independent exhibitor' and sections like 'What the Picture Did for Me?' certainly provided a forum for theater owners. But plenty of exhibitors viewed Quigley as a servant to the studios and large theater chains. In response, publications such as SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, INDEPENDENT EXHIBITORS FILM BULLETIN, HARRISON'S REPORTS, and BOX OFFICE were either formed or grew significantly in the years following Quigley's brief moment of consolidation in 1930. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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10 MOTION PICTURE HERALD January 14, 1939 By Harris & JSwing MEMBERS of Congress had been in Washington scarcely long enough to light their cigars when the solons shown above proposed bills having particular regard to the film industry. Representative Francis D. Culkin, left, wanted prohibition of blind selling and a Federal Film Commission. Representative Andrew Edmiston, center, introduced an anti-block booking bill as successor to the Pettengill bill of previous sessions. Senator Matthew M. Neely, right, again is sponsoring his block booking bill. This Week n Pictures DAN MICHALOVE, below, assistant to Sidney R. Kent of 20th CenturyFox, discusses the Australian market on his return from a three months' study of the Hoyt theatre circuit properties in the Commonwealth. Story on page 42. By Staff Photographer WALTER McNALLY, RKO manager for Ireland and owner of an extensive circuit in the Free State, interviewed during a visit to the home office in New York, painted an enthusiastic picture of the market in Erin. Business during 1938, he said, was 33 per cent better than in 1937, and a comparable increase in 1939 can be expected. The interview is on page 18. By Staff Photographer MAX BAER, right, in New York for what has been heralded as his comeback fight with Lou Nova, wears the insignia which qualifies him for the role he will play in six westerns for which he has contracted with the new Grand National. IRVING ASHER, below, production head of London Films, arrives in New York on the Washington on his way to join Alexander Korda in Hollywood for one of the many separate and joint conferences being held there among United Artists partners, producers attorneys and financiers. Story on page 14. By Metropolitan By Cosmo-Sileo