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 #:
000423
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:
September 21, 2023
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July 10, 1915 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD ma, ous LANCE over the history of the world's play-acting. There are but few milestones : the Passion Play at Oberammergau, the National Theatre of Bayreuth, the Rhine Plays of Wagner, Shakespeare. And now The Cycle of Lincoln Photo-dramas. To make the point, recall Oberammergau, for instance. At Oberammergau, the Passion Play extends for a solid week, without intermission or cessation. The characters are played year after year by the same actors, whose lives are devoted to this alone, and whose very natures become that of their parts. Thus is the life of Jesus in all its beauty and realism presented to the pilgrims who visit Oberammergau for the play alone, and Jesus and his doctrines are made real to all believers. The Passion Play has been the most comprehensive attempt to show a great figure in all the history of the world. And now comes a more broad and far-reaching enactment— a dramatic presentation of Abraham Lincoln. And with the idea appears the most impressive, the most vital motion picture classic of the epoch. A Cycle of Photo-Dramas based on the life of Lincoln, authentic and true to the life of the Great Emancipator is in truth, the Epic of America, for Abraham Lincoln embodies the very spirit of the Republic. Because Lincoln rose from the lowest rank and reached the pinnacle of all the world; because Lincoln's every act was the reflection of our finest ideals; because Lincoln knew no master but Liberty — Lincoln is the typification of America and the noblest example for American manhood and womanhood. In all the pages of history, no character so inspires all America, no character so touches the deepest recesses of our hearts. The pages of story and history are dumb. Give America her Lincoln as he was ! Show the rising (Continued on folloztring page) CHARTER FEATURES CORPORATION 110 WEST 40th STREET, NEW YORK BENJAMIN CHAPIN, Inspirator