Motion Play (Oct and Nov 1920)

Page scan 0001 from Motion Play

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Play
Date:
Oct and Nov 1920
Volume:
Motion Play (Oct and Nov 1920) Promotions
Leaf #:
0001
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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