Motion Picture News (Oct 1915)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture News
Date:
Oct 1915
Publisher:
New York, Motion Picture News, Inc.
Volume:
Motion Picture News (Oct 1915)
Leaf #:
000466
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Motion Picture News was the leading film industry trade journal during the 1920s. Founded in 1908 as a counterweight to the dominant Moving Picture World, the News was the voice for the independent, non-Trust, producers. Later Motion Picture News expanded its coverage to the entire industry, supporting the independent exhibitor with objective film reviews, summaries of programs at theatres across the nation, activities of regional exchanges in the cities with regional exchanges, and excellent coverage of the coming of sound and screenings and stage shots at the major New York City theatres. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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22 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 12. No. 17. This is addressed To You Mr. Exhibitor The Trade Searchlight is on South America — are you “ tying up ” your theatre to the columns and columns of space in the daily papers on South America Today? Travel pictures always interest the audiences of high class theatres. Teachers, students, lawyers, doctors— often pay from 50c to $2 to hear a “Traveloguer” — — but right now business men and motion picture patrons everywhere are seeing Paramount South American Travel Pictures. The newspapers are giving a raft of free publicity to the exhibitor who runs these pictures. With the hundred other good points that might be mentioned such as lending distinction and variety to your program — How can you afford to be without them? ^paramount ^ pictured (orfyoratiofu ONI HUMMED TIN WIST POBT1ETH V ' STREET NEW york.n.y f > Be sure to mention “MOTION PICTURE^NEWS” when writing to advertisers.