Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1915)

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Jul-Sep 1915
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1915)
Leaf #:
000403
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Early Cinema
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:
September 21, 2023
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THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 371 "BUILT BY BRAINS To All "Movie" Men : They will thank us for it. The builders of the great San Francisco Exposition will want its story perpetuated. This can be done by PICTURES only, and a LIVE history, showing in addition to the buildings, and the exhibits, the many thousands of eager moving people, must be made by MOVING PICTURES. So thanks 'will be to all engaged, from the chemist who makes the film to the boy behind the lamp house who turns the crank. And there is glory enough for us all. Hence these greetings to you as history preservers. But to teach this history we are preserving, to thrill or even amuse, the pictures when shown must be clear, distinct and beautiful in tone. The clearest, most distinct, and most beautiful pictures are produced only on Minusa Gold Fibre screens. This is the celebrated E. R. Anderson screen, the one that is "Built by Brains'" to fit your theatre. It is the screen now on exhibition in the model theatre, also at the booth of The A. A. Metcalfe Company. Write Dept. A for special booklet. MINUSA CINE PRODUCTS CO. ST. LOUIS NEW YORK