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 #:
00090
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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10 MOTION PICTURE HERALD July 10, I 943 THIS WEEK the Camera observes: DEPARTURE. At the 20ih-Fox National Theatres luncheon for Ernest Turnbull, who left Hollywood last week to return to managership of the Hoyts Theatres circuit, Australia: Tom Connors, Spyros Skouras, Mr. Turnbull and Joseph Schenck. By Staff Photographer CONGRATULATIONS to Nat Lefton from O. Henry Briggs, right, president of Producers Releasing Corporation. At the Eastern regional meeting in New York last Friday, Mr. Lefton was named manager for Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland. By Staff Photographer MARTIN QUIGLEY, N. Peter Rathvon, James R. Young, Rutgers Neilson and Ned E. Depinet at a luncheon Tuesday for Mr. Young, adviser for RKO's "Behind the Rising Sun". By Staff Photographer PLANNERS. Harry Lowenstein, president of New Jersey Allied, and E. Thornton Kelly, organizer, inspect the schedule at the unit's 24th annual convention at West End, New Jersey, last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Mr. Loewenstein was reelected. PRAISE for Hollywood's "unstinting assistance" came last week from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, right, shown with MGM production chief Louis B. Mayer at the "Build the Cruiser Los Angeles" Bond selling program in the Hollywood Bowl last Wednesday night. Mr. Knox said he spoke for "the Democratic Administration and the Republican fragment". NEW PRODUCTION. Principals in the newly formed International Pictures, Inc.: William Goetz, former 20th-Fox production chief, and head of the new company; Leo Spitz, film attorney, former RKO president, and International's chairman of the board; Nunnally Johnson, writer and producer.