Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1919)

Page scan 0001448 from Motion Picture News

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture News
Date:
Nov-Dec 1919
Author:
Motion Picture News, Inc.
Publisher:
New York, Motion Picture News, Inc.
Volume:
Motion picture news (Nov-Dec 1919)
Leaf #:
0001448
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
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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110 Motion Picture N c vj s TO THE MOTION PICTURE THEATRE OWNERS OF AMERICA ADVERTISING ON THE SCREEN IS A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM. The exhibitor must, above all things, consider the rights of his patrons. No. doubt there are pictures in which the advertising and the entertainment value are inseparably bound up. No other kind of pictures under this plan will be shown on his screen, because no pictures will be offered until they have passed the supervising committee, composed of exhibitors. All industrial and educational films to be shown hereafter must be controlled and supervised by exhibitors, because they own the screens. Under no circumstances will the exhibitors delegate their rights to supervise their screens to any producing company whatever. The burglar who is caught with the goods and offers to surrender part of his loot in exchange for a license to burglarize in the future is not an impressive figure morally or from a business standpoint. Some of the producers who contracted with the big advertisers for the use of our screens without our consent are in the position of the man who has raised money by putting a mortgage on a piece of property to which he has no title. DON'T SIGN ANY CONTRACTS THAT WILL MORTGAGE YOUR SCREEN TO ANY FILM PRODUCER. GET IN TOUCH WITH ANY OF THE UNDERSIGNED. Under pressure applied by activities of the Screen Protection Committee, new propositions and offers more or less vague and indefinite, are being made to the exhibitor to induce him to mortgage his screen in the interest of individuals and film producing corporations. Under the plan worked out by this committee, all money derived from advertising in the pictures shown in each state goes to the state organization for the exhibitors of that state to use as they see fit. We, the undersigned , have no connection whatever with any alleged, or so-called, " national " exhibitors' organization. ' MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITORS' LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE. Sydney S. Cohen, Pres. W. H. Linton, Utica, Treas. S. I. Bermen, Sec'y Jules Michaels, Buffalo, Chairman Executive Board. MIAMI VALLEY EXHIBITORS' ASSOCIATION. Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana. John Seifert, Pres. A. W. Kinzler, Treas. NORTHWEST EXHIBITORS' CIRCUIT. Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho. J. Q. Clemmer, Pres. and Treas. H. B. Wright, Sec'y. CLEVELAND MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITORS' ASSOCIATION. H. H. Lustig, Pres. Sam Bullock, Exec. Sec'y. W. J. Slimm. AMERICAN EXHIBITORS' ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. Fred J. Herrington. KANSAS CITY EXHIBITORS' ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI. A. M. Eisner, William Flynn, Jack H. Roth, B. M. Achtenberg. ILLINOIS EXHIBITORS' ALLIANCE. George D. Hopkinson, John H. Frundt, F. W. Hartman, V. R. Langdon, H. Von Meeteren, M. O. Wells, Chicago; Joseph Hopp, Rock Island; D. M. Rubens, Joliet; Charles Lamb, Rockford; W. E. Burford, Aurora. MICHIGAN EXHIBITORS' ASSOCIATION. J. C. Ritter, George A. Harrison, Harlen F. Hall, Fred Rumler, John R. Odell, Harry Oppenheim, Peter Jeup. SOUTH CAROLINA EXHIBITORS' LEAGUE. George C. Warner, Pres. NORTH CAROLINA EXHIBITORS' ASSOCIATION. H. B. Varner, Sec'y and Treas. A. F. Sams. LOS ANGELES (CALIFORNIA) THEATRE OWNERS' ASSOCIATION. COLORADO EXHIBITORS' LEAGUE EXHIBITORS' PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA, NORTH DAKOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA AND IOWA. C. W. Gates, South Dakota. Pres. ; E. E. Nemec. Minnesota, Sec'y; S. S. Picker, Michigan, Chairman Executive Board; P. W. Myers, North Dakota; J. C. Collins, Iowa; A. L. Robarge, Wisconsin; J. E. Gould, Minnesota; J. J. Larkin, Minnesota; S. G. Latta, Minnesota. MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITORS' ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN. H. J. Stoerger, Pres.; P. Langheinrich, Sr., Sec'y E. Langmalk, F. C. Seegert. S. Bauer, W. A. Schoon. A. Dietz. Arrangements with organized exhibitors in New England, the South, and other territory are now being completed. Committee on Organization for Protection of the Screen SYDNEY S. COHEN, New York, Temporary Chairman SAM BULLOCK, Cleveland, Temporary Secretary Temporary Headquarters of the Committee, Room 708, Times Bldg., New York City