Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1915)

Page scan 00069 from Moving Picture World

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Jan-Mar 1915
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1915)
Leaf #:
00069
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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^ Happp anb ^rosiperoust i^eto l^ear i;o ^11 d^ur Jfrientist anb Eeaberg THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD is the one paper in the trade that everybody reads and cannot do without. We have not space enough to publish all the letters of praise we receive every week from highly satisfied subscribers. Following are a few recent encomiums: We could not get along without the Moving Picture World. Exhibitors Everywhere SUBSCRIBE TO-DAY The information in a tingle issue is often worth a whole year's subscription. Readers who study the MOVING PICTURE WORLD every week thereby keep thoroughly posted and up-todate in regard to the whole moving picture field of endeavor and Iheir NEW YEAR consequently will be HAPPY AND PROSPER. OUS. North Carolina. The Moving Picture World. Gentlemen : — "I wish to add my quota to the volume of well deserved praise you have already received. We find your publication of great practical value, which is the main thing after all for any trade journal to achieve." Yours, BLAKE D. APPLEWHITE. North Wales, Eng. Editor Moving Picture World. Dear Sir : — "We find your paper most interesting and helpful in many ways and one that every Manager and Operator should subscribe to, who wishes to be up to date in the business." Yours Fraternally, GEO. H. KENYON. West Virginia. Moving Picture World. Gentlemen : — "We thank you for the great help your journal has been to the exhibitors in general and the writer in particular. We would just as soon think of trying to run without a machine, as without 'The World'." Yours truly, O. F. LANGWORTHY New York City. Moving Picture World. Gentlemen : — "The entire Moving Picture World is one fine thing." WALTER CHAS. MICHEL. ' Newark, N. J. Editor Moving Picture World. Dear Sir: — "There's no use wishing you success, because you've got it already — but it'll do no harm to second the applause that's coming to you from every sincere well-wisher of the future of the films." Heartily yours, WILLARD H. KITCHELL.