Motion Picture Herald (1954)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
1954
Publisher:
New York, Quigley Publishing Co.
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1954)
Leaf #:
000105
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
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:
March 28, 2024
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AS the National Television Film Council tendered a certificate and a gift to Dr. Alfred Goldsmith, "father of television," at luncheon in New York last week: Robert Shelby, John Schneider, Dr. Goldsmith, Cliff Norton, Mel Gold, Arthur V. Lough by the Herald SPEAKER, at the luncheon in New York Tuesday sparking the theatre drive for the AmericanKorean Foundation: Robert Coyne, COMPO counsel. With him, Al Lichtman, 20th-Fox distribution director, also a speaker. by the Herald N. PETER RATHVON and John G. McCarthy, as they spoke Tuesday about Mr. Rathvon's program of pictures, completed and coming, from the Continent, dubbed and/or in several languages. "Embassy Baby" and "1984" he will make in Germany. "No Way Back," made for Germans, he will dub for this market. He also has a German-French picture, "Double Destiny." He will make about three pictures a year, he said, and hopes some day to make multi-lingual, "international" pictures in Hollywood. PLANNING the 1954 fund-raising for New York Cinema Lodge, B'nai B'rith: the luncheon meeting at which Max E. Youngstein presided. Around the table are Martin Levine, Alfred W. Schwalberg, Mr. Youngstein, Monroe Goodman, Leon Bamberger, Norman Robbins, Jack Hoffberg, Bernie Brooks, Milton Livingston, Sally Meiselman, Harold Klein, Lou Wolff, Ben Abner, Joe Sugar, Abe Dickstein and Saul Trauner. Standing, Leo Jaffe and Burton E. Robbins, president. by the Herald by the Herald THEY SPOKE. The scene at Columbia, New York, in the office of Abe Montague, Will Rogers Memorial Hospital president, as he presided at a telephone-cast opening the Fifth Annual Christmas Salute. With him, distributor chairman Charles Feldman and exhibitor chairman M. A. Silver; and, background, assistant Ned Shugrue. HOSTS AND GUESTS, at the Harvard Club, New York, as the American industry gave a luncheon for Italian visitors of prominence. In array are Dr. Franco Penotti, Italian distributors' representative; Eric A. Johnston, MPAA president; Dr. Eitel Monaco, president of ANICA (Italian producers' group); Nicholas M. Schenck, Loew's, Inc., president; Barney Balaban, Paramount president, and Robert Benjamin, U.A. board chairman. THEY LISTENED. An exchange scene, right, this one being 20thFox's, in New York. hv t''o H -r , JOSEPH KAUFMAN, who produced "Long John Silver" in Australia, is in New York with the print, and spoke about producing problems and pleasures Down Under. He likes the idea, and has tied up the Pagewood studio, Sydney, for two and one-half years on lease. Distributors Corp. of America has his film and will open it in New York during the Christmas season. by the Herald ren.