Moving Picture World (July-Dec 1909)

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
July-Dec 1909
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (July-Dec 1909)
Leaf #:
000872
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
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:
Moving Picture World, founded in 1907 by J.P. Chalmers, was one of the motion picture industry's first trade papers. Published on a weekly basis in New York City, Moving Picture World informed exhibitors about films available for rental and editorialized on behalf of the growing industry (improving the quality of movies through higher filmmaking standards, not government censorship, was a frequent topic). The paper reached its height in the mid-to-late-1910s--a fact reflected in the circulation figures and the huge amount of advertising that filled every issue during the period. In the 1920s, Moving Picture World lost ground to other competing weekly trade papers -- including Variety, Exhibitor's Herald, and Motion Picture News. In 1927, Moving Picture World ceased publication when it was acquired by Martin Quigley's Exhibitor's Herald. Across the 20 year run of Moving Picture World, readers can watch the transition from short film programs to feature films and witness the transition from the dominance of Edison's Trust to the rise of the "Independent" film companies that ultimately became the Hollywood studios. Silent film historians have utilized and cited Moving Picture World more frequently than any other trade paper, and the publication still has many insights left to offer. -- Eric Hoyt, 2012/2013
Date Added:
February 15, 2024
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866 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD The "Imp's" Holiday Release is entitled "LEST WE FORGET 5* A Christmas heart story, brimful of the Yuletide spirit. It will send your audience away in a beatific frame of mind, for it deals with a question that goes straight to the soul. Of course, it "turns out right." Your special attention is called to the beautiful dissolve effects. This is the first time the "Imp" has tackled effects of this sort, put I don't believe "Lest We Forget" could have been improved upon if we had been doing this stunt every day for a hundred years. Tell your exchange you want this subject just as s< on as possible. Drop them a postal card RIGHT NOW. This is the sort of picture that helps give your theatre and the whole moving picture business a good, clean name. Get it, if you have to fight tor it. RELEASED MONDAY, DECEMBER 20th Independent Moving Picture Co. of America m East 14th Street, New York CARL LAEMMLE, President Released Monday, Dec. 6th "HIS LAST GAME" Released Monday, Dec. 13th ''THE TWO SONS" *■*! TTi*!/* £Vk«4Vr n«i«* ^^7«»»» Every exhibitor who sees what we have done for our customers in shape of I HC K lQc *J AllllS vllir TT fty Film Service, and then reasons with himself will, nay must, give us atrial. A special assortment of Headllners. NO LEMONS. Films for sale at a reasonable Price PHILADELPHIA FILM EXCHANGE Members of the National Independent Moving Picture Alliance Offices: >4 North Ninth Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 8 Light Street. BALTIMORE, MD. "AGFA METOL" The developer which made moving picture taking possible. Depositing the finest texture to the film and allowing the shortest exposures to be made. "AGFA" developers are no experiment. Years of experience behind them. Agfa Metol, Agfa Pyro, Agfa HydroKinone, Agfa Amidol, Agfa Glycin, Agfa Ortol, Agfa EiKonogen, Agfa Rodinal, Agfa Intensifier. Write for dye shade card, also formula book Let us supply your wants in developers BERLIN ANILINE WORKS 213-215 Water Street New YorH \ FEATURE / THE Exhibitors' Film Exchange. Inc. an 138 THIRD AVENUE NEW YORK Phone 2775 Stuyvesant 3HI At / SWTLI \