Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1914)

Page scan 000258 from Moving Picture World

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Jan-Mar 1914
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1914)
Leaf #:
000258
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:
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:
May 30, 2024
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246 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD EXTRA! Bully Good News For ^THE DANCES A ONE-REEL DANCE FEATURE! Through a stroke of unexpected luck and at terrific expense the Universal has induced the world-famous modern dancers, SEBASTIAN AND ALLEN, to pose in a series of SIX MODERN DANCES, all of which have been condensed into ONE FULL REEL. We will release this Jan. 26 under the Victor-Universal brand in order to get if to you as quickly as possible, and right while the dance craze is sweeping the whole world. This one-reel feature shows ALL THE STEPS OF THE MODERN DANCES, and shows them so plainly that anyone who can dance at all can copy them. Special music is being arranged, and special i -sheet and 3-sheet posters are being hurried to completion. GET AN EARLY BOOKING OF THIS, NO MATTER WHAT IT COSTS YOU, AND ADVERTISE IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT. It is a genuine "scoop." We Want More COMEDY DIRECTORS! COMEDY SCENARIO WRITERS! COMEDY SCENARIO EDITORS! ^ The Universal Film Manufacturing Company is centering its mightiest effort on making the best comedies in the world. If you have a good position now, a position that HAS A GOOD FUTURE FOR YOU, we do not care to take you away from it. But whenever you want to make a change for the better and join the staff of THE BIGGEST AND STRONGEST CONCERN IN THE WORLD OF PICTURES, think of the Universal first. The instant you are free to do so, LET US HEAR FROM YOU. f It ought to be plain to everyone by this time that no film concern in the universe has the vim and vigor and determination and enterprise and ambition that inspires the Universal. That is the kind of concern that you ought to be connected with, IF YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH IN YOUR LINE. We've never failed in anything we've at tempted, and we don't intend to fail in our determination to BEAT THE WHOLE WORLD WITH COMEDIES just as we now beat, the whole world with dramatic productions, features and general excellence of program. f We are ALWAYS on the market for the BEST MEN IN EVERY LINE OF THE BUSINESS. But most particularly just now, we want those who are high up in the COMEDY end of the trade. ^ The opportunity of a lifetime is knocking at your door right now as you read this advertisement. NO MATTER HOW BIG OR SUCCESSFUL YOU ARE, YOU'LL BECOME BIGGER AND MORE SUCCESSFUL IF YOU ARE THE KIND The Universal IS LOOKING FOR! ^ Direct all communications (in order to keep them strictly confidential) to "The office of the President." Mecca Building Universal Film CARL LAEMMLE, ''The Largest Film Manufacturing Broadway at 48th Street