Motion Play (Oct and Nov 1920)

Page scan 0003 from Motion Play

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Play
Date:
Oct and Nov 1920
Volume:
Motion Play (Oct and Nov 1920) Promotions
Leaf #:
0003
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Fan Magazines
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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See These Advance Pictures of beautiful costumes, thrilling stunts and. startling situations from the new photoplays. Interesting introductions.to motion picture stars in their latest roles: Alice Joyce Ruth Roland Earle Williams Nazimova Tom Mix May Allison Ina Claire rae corm Once to Every Woman The old, old-story of the conflict betweeri ambition and — love. Its joy and pathos all pictured on one page. A Dorothy Phillips film. ee Dead Men Tell No Tales Look these pictures over Sunday—you may want to be forewarned before the inevitable shiver begins its jazzy course downward from the back of yourcollar, ~ Sn Gowns-A real art fashion show Furs, feathers and silk—fashions you will see in the new films. taka : Greek Muse and Modern Jazz Mildred Davis Margaret Loomis New steps and new lines in drapéry. —— Betty Compson —a bewitching full page portrait. Her rare beauty . mirrored perfectly. [reine Be se aQ SSE And a Houdini super-stunt— Bound on a locomotive pilot. 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 Delightful Treat A Special Surprise A Novel Innovation ~ f Commencing Sunday, November 14, readers of The Journal will receive, in addition to the regular paper, a special 8 page photographic section, handsomely printed on super-calendered stock by the beautiful gravure process, and containing 45 or more supremely interesting pictures of: Plays, People and Events in the moving picture world. “You get this costly and beautiful MoTion. PLAY MAGAZINE Fr ree with next Sunday’ S Journal It is specially edited to interest every member of the family. There is no other publication like it. In a series of specially 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 arid near-stars of Filmland. A ie laky and fascinating M ovine Picture Entertainment for all mem bers of the family. Be sure that a copy of this beautiful magazine is _ included with your Journal Sunday, November 14. To avoid disappointment, it is well to place your order early with your newsdealer. ORDER TODAY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER Get the Minneapolis Journal Sunday, Nov. 14, without fail r