Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1921)

Page scan 00017 from Motion Picture News

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture News
Date:
Sept-Oct 1921
Author:
Motion Picture News, Inc.
Publisher:
New York, Motion Picture News, Inc.
Volume:
Motion picture news (Sept-Oct 1921)
Leaf #:
00017
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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THE S^TUimjlY EVENING POST An Illixstrated AVeekly Founded A? 1728 6y Benj. Franklin SEPT. 192,1 THE COPY ^* lOc. in Canada 'THE SPICE OF THE PROGRAM" YOU are buying motion pic ture entertainment today just as you buy groceries or dry goods. Wherever — you think you run least risk of making an unsatisfactory purchase. Theatres showing Educational Pictures do not depend on just one picture to please an entire audience. They offer you so many different kinds of good pictures that their programs are bound to please you. You may see a two-reel feature photo-play hke The T^orihem Trail, SELIG RORK'S great production of James Oliver Curwood's story. Or — A two-reel comedy by Christie — or a ToRCHY Comedy from a Sewell Ford story. You can see the great screen comedian Lloyd "Ham" Hamilton in a Mermaid Comedy ably directed by Jack White. Or — One of Wm. S. Campbell's Animal Comedies with almost human animal actors. You can take Jolly Journeys around the world in Motion Picture Scenics for which the standard has been set by Robert C. Bruce's Scenics Beautiful. You may laugh at Juban Ollendorff' s animated cartoons, Sketchografhs, or — See in Kinograms the visual news of all the world. When you ihop /or your mone-j'i worth in mouon picture entertainment, look, "i theatre entrances for posters and cards shounng the Educational Pictures sign. When you see it — go in I It's the Sign of a ivelhhalanced Program ! EDUCATIONAL FILM EXCHANGES, INC., £. W. Mammons. President Os(aH Watch for this advertisement on Thursday , Sept. 1 . It will go into ^,150,000 homes and be read hy 12,000,000 persons in the United States and Canaaa*