Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1916)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture News
Date:
Sept-Oct 1916
Author:
Motion Picture News, Inc.
Publisher:
New York, Motion Picture News, Inc.
Volume:
Motion Picture News (Sept.-Oct 1916)
Leaf #:
000708
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
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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1980 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 14. No. 13 A LETTER HCM MiSS IITTY GOHDOK (THE HONo M]aS.H.ll.BE0DESFODD)lDlHEEMIDlIORSgPUB'LIC Im.itation is not only the sincerest form of flattery. It is the better part of wisdom, the source of all, improvement. Columbus discovered the West Indies. His imitators opened up the American continent. When Mr. Lewis J. Selznick organized the Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation he expected to be imitated. More, he hoped for it. He knew his idea would be a failure if others did not adapt it to their own uses. He has already expressed his appreciation of the compliment paid his judgement by Miss Mary Pickford and Mr, Adolph Zukor in organizing the Mary Pickford Film Corporation. It is my turn to thank Mr. Selznick for giving me the opportunity to enlist under his banner at the head of my own company, the Kitty Gordon Film Corporation. He blazed the way and it is up to every motion picture star to follow the sure road he has pointed out to artistic prestige and financial success. To my friends the exhibitors and public who have found merit in my program pictures I wish to give assurance that my future productions, beginning with the picture now under way, an adaptation Qf one of Richard Harding Davis' great novels, "Vera, the Medium," will exceed their most sanguine hopes. And each of my productions will be marketed through the great chain of exchanges established by Lewis J. Selznick Enterprise?, Inc.