Motion Play (Oct and Nov 1920)

Page scan 0000 from Motion Play

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Play
Date:
Oct and Nov 1920
Volume:
Motion Play (Oct and Nov 1920) Promotions
Leaf #:
0000
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Hollywood Studio System
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library; Canadian Media Magazines Project; Paul Moore and Jessica Whitehead
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:

Motion Play

Motion Play Magazine (1920-22) was one of many magazines for movie fans, but unique by virtue of being a newspaper supplement distributed free with Sunday papers such as the Washington Herald and the Indianapolis Star, along with a half-dozen others in the Midwest and Northeast. The syndicated magazine expanded the national reach of an earlier 1919 insert in the Philadelphia Record, which provided “news of screen players and plays, in rich sepia rotogravure.” Circulation reached nearly six hundred thousand by the end of 1921.While this was a modest result compared to syndicated color comics, it gave Motion Play a higher circulation than any fan magazine in the 1920s. In 1922, the movie features were folded into a general magazine in 1922 and the title “Motion Play” discontinued. Motion Play’s slim eight pages did not require staples or a glued spine, but its layout and content otherwise fit the form of other fan magazines of its day—a full-page poster cover of a movie star and other “portraits of the foremost cinema stars, together with interesting gossip about them and their work.”

– Paul Moore, March 2024

Date Added:
April 11, 2024
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12 } THE INDIANAPOLIS SUNDAY STAR, OCTOBER 24, 1920... _ ee Something very special for readers | of The Indianapolis Sunday Star, — _ Beginning Sunday, November 7th “ A Delightful Treat See These A Special Surprise’ Advance Pictures of the beautiful street costumes and charming house gowns recently imported by the female stars of Filmland, including June Caprice Priscilla Dean Geraldine Farrar Mary Miles Minter Fabulously priced furs of rare chinchilla worn by Dorothy Cummings, a marvellous gown of raspberry velvet with hat to match as specially posed for us by Mary Miles Minter, and half a dozen other costume photographs of interest to every woman form a special feature of THE INDIANAPOLIS SUNDAY STAR’S Motion-Play Magazine on and after Nov. 7. Seven exclusive photographs of Pearl White taken on her Long Island farm give you an intimate glimpse of this rising young film star. Other new and exclusive photographs portray the big dramatic scenes and incidents of the new screen plays soon to be shown locally. Will Rogers Art Acord “Bill” Duncan Charles Hutchinson will be shown in feats of daring and break-neck situations incident to their new plays, of which these are advance photographs. Everybody interested in the new moving picture plays (and who isn’t?) will find in Motion-Play Magazine an absorbing pictorial forecast of coming events with bright, pithy editorial captions that will amuse, edify and enlighten every member of the family. A Novel Innovation Commencing Sunday, November 7, readers of The Indianapolis. Sunday Star will-receive, in addition to the regular paper, an 8page photographic section, handsomely printed on super-calendered stock by the beautiful gravure process, and containing 35 or more supremely interesting pictures of Plays, People and Events in the moving picture world. You get this costly and beautiful | It is specially edited to interest every member of the family. There is no other publication like it. In a series of-special photographed views, enlivened by scintillating captions, it gives each week a terse and graphic presentation of the big human interest scenes from all the newest film productions with special personal glimpses of the home life, social activities and daily diversions of famous stars and nearstars of Filmland. -members of the family. MOTION-PLAY IViAGAZINE Free with The Indianapolis Sunday Star, Commencing Sunday, Nov. 7th’ A Complete and fascinating Moving Picture Entertainment for all ,,