Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1943)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Jul-Aug 1943
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1943)
Leaf #:
00020
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:
November 17, 2022
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12 MOTION PICTURE HERALD July 3 94 3 ON THE "CRAZY HOUSE" set at Universal, Colonel Arthur Freudenfeld, Cincinnati and Toledo, Ohio, exhibitor, poses between Olsen and Johnson in front of the machine gun. Watching the "contract signing" are Mrs. Freudenfeld and her sister, Miss Hanson. EXPLOITATION of Paramount's feature, "So Proudly We Hail," was discussed and planned thoroughly in New York and Hollywood meetings attended by the company's best publicity brains, and those from large circuits which will play the picture. Above, in Hollywood: George Brown, studio publicity director; Ralph Ravenscroft, Paramount; Robert Selig, Fox Intermountain circuit; Claude Morris, Fox Midwest circuit; Dean Hyskell, Fox West Coast circuit; Leonard Neubaur, Sam Vorzimer, Alec Moss, Lou Harris, Paramount; Helen Garrity, Fox Intermountain; Earl Hunt, Fox Evergreen; Willis Kinnear, Paramount; Dave Cockrill, Denham Theatre, Denver; Far Reeaer, Fox West Coast; Vic Gauntlett, Fox Evergreen; Scoop Conlon, publicist; Blake McVeigh and Teet Carle, Paramount. AT RIGHT, at the New York meeting: Leon Netter, Paramount circuit; William Hollander, Balaban and Katz circuit, Chicago; Mrs. Alice Gorham, United Detroit Theatres; Maurice Rubens, Great States Theatres, Chicago; Louis Finske, Comerford Theatres, Scranton; Sam Dembow, Paramount circuit. In rear are Hal Danson and Al Wilkie, Paramount home office. PUBLICITY EXPANSION by Artkino, Russian film distributor, is reflected in the appointment, this week, of Elias Lapinere, formerly of Warners and MGM in Europe. He will supervise Artkino's national, Canadian, and Latin-American advertising. By Staff Photographer FROM BRAZIL to "Coney Island." The Brazilian newspapermen and friends, left, were guests at a Twentieth Century-Fox New York home office screening, and are on a tour sponsored by the National Press Club and the CIAA. They are Wilson Lins, Dr. Belisario de Souza, Rodolfo Da Motta Lima, V. P. Gatti (New York consul), Ernesto Simoes Filho, Dr. Andre Goncalves Carrazzoni, Walter Paepcke (president of the Container Corporation of America), Joaquim Ottoni Da Silv'erira Camargo, Dr. Casper Libero, and Edgar Do Godoi Da Mata Machado.