Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1927)

500 in Cash Prizes Complete in This Issue IN EVERY ISSUE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE THERE W ILL BE A PICTURE CONTEST WITH THIS month our artist has presented a director and cameraman filming a war scene from a camera platform. There are many errors both in drawing and in the way things are being done. And again there are forty-eight cash prizes for those with the sharpest eyes. Let the men of the family . . . or the best boy-friend ... in on this, for they can probably help you to find additional mistakes. As a matter of fact, the best part of this contest is that the entire family can work on it together. It should be loads gf fun finding out which member keenest sense of observation. As can be seen, no particular pete successfully. All you have carefully and note each error as 48 Cash Prizes 1st Prize $100 2nd Prize 50 3rd Prize 25 4th to 23rd Prize, inclusive, @ $10 200 24th to 48th Prize, inclusive, @ $5 125 Total of Prizes each month. . $500 of the household has the ability is needed to comto do is study the drawing you find it. Usually, contests in magazines and newspapers run for months and months. This is not the case here. This contest is complete this month. And the winners will be announced in the October Motion Picture Magazine. You do not have to buy issue after issue and wait a young lifetime to find out if you're one of the lucky ones. However, if you have half the fun finding the mistakes in this drawing that we think you will, you'll be anxious for the August Motion Picture Magazine to reach the newsstands so that you can try your luck next month. Incidentally, the picture next month will be a bathing beach, well sprinkled with bathing beauties as a comedy is filmed. We know the men will be glad to help next month. These Simple Rules Promise Fairness 1. Prizes will be awarded to those who point out the largest number of actual mistakes in this picture, and who present their explanation of the errors in the clearest and most skilful manner. (The mistakes shall be in all cases interpreted to be errors appearing in the pictures about which there can be no question in the opinion of the judges.) 2. In the case of any ties, the full amount of the prize will be paid to each tying contestant. 3. Answers may be submitted on any kind of paper, but they must be typewritten or written in ink and on one side of the paper only. 4. Errors must be listed separately and numbered. 5. No corrections or changes will he allowed after an entry is submitted, but a contestant may submit as many separate entries as desired. 6. Address entries to Picture Contest Editor, Motion Picture Magazine, 175 Duffield Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 7. Write your name and address plainly on each sheet of your entry. 8. The publishers will not be responsible for delay, loss or non-deliveries of entries. And entries with insufficient postage cannot be accepted. 9. No contribution will be acknowledged and none will be returned. Neither will letters of inquiry regarding the contest be answered. 10. Entries in this contest must be mailed or delivered to the offices of the Motion Picture Magazine not later than the first day of July, 1927. No entry bearing a postmark after July first will be considered. 11. You do not have to buy Motion Picture Magazine to compete. You can borrow a copy from a friend or examine a copy at any of our offices or Public Libraries, free of charge. 12. The contest is open to everybody except employees of Motion Picture Publications and their families. 13. The editors of Motion Picture Magazine will act as judges and their decisions will be final. Complete acceptance of these rules is an implied condition of each entry. 32