Motion Picture News (Oct-Dec 1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture News
Date:
Oct-Dec 1930
Publisher:
New York, Motion Picture News, Inc.
Volume:
Motion Picture News (Oct-Dec 1930)
Leaf #:
0001151
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine
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:
March 28, 2024
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EducationaVs Comedies this season are beyond question the finest brand of short feature laugh makers that ever made exhibitors* patrons howl for more. They are better eomedies beeause better people are making them . . . and playing in them. COM^ ♦*, Men famous for years of success in making boxoffice comedy in both feature and short feature lengths are producing and directing Educational' s Comedies. Mack Sennett . . . Al Christie . . . William Beaudine William Goodrich . . . Leslie Pearce . . .William Watson Eddie Cline . . . Harold Beaudine . . . Arvid E. Gillstrom Stephen Roberts . . . Nat Ross . . . Del Lord E. H. Allen . . . Paul Terry . . . Frank Moser. 25 Many of the best comedy pens of Hollywood and the rest of the country have contributed the stories and the dialogue for EducationaVs Comedies, for the funny tales and the crackling chatter have come from such well known writers as Florence Ryerson . . . Colin Clements . . . Al Boasberg James Gleason . . . John A. Waldron . . . Earle Rodney Jack Jevne . . .Walter Weems . . . Dick Weil . . . Ernest P\gano . . . Paul Gir ard Smith ... Ken Kling . . . Katherine Scola . . . Sherman L. Lowe . . . Jack Townley . . . Hale Hamilton . . .Walter DeLeon . . . Neal Burns Jimmy Starr . . . Harry McCoy . . . Bert Levy. EDUCATIONAL FILM EXCHANGES. Inc.. e. w. mammons, President Member, Motion Picture Producers mid Distributors of Vm.-r i. ... Inc.. W ill El. 1 1.. * -. President