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 #:
000424
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 July 10, 1915 generation what Lincoln did ! See him as he really looked, acted, prayed, aided, led, wooed, fought, worked, studied, was born and died. And you have t..e most popular motion picture character ever seen on the screen. There is no need to popularize a Lincoln picture. Every school, church, society, newspaper, magazine is making a moving picture Lincoln more needed and more craved for. M^incomfentimenf I S life was a great adventure. No melodrama ever pictured could compare with the excitement, intrigue, romance of his brief years: Born ugly, poor, out of sight of civilization, with his two hands he reared himself, paid to educate himself, rose, conquered, and then at the helm of the shattered Ship of State, he led America to the position from whence she rises to inspire all the world. Hence Lincoln is the national character — the beacon light, the example par excellence for all America. To concentrate all this national interest in a series of photoplays is the plan of the Charter Features Corporation. A conservative, broadvisioned policy of giving America what she wants, is the intention of the Charter Features Corporation. Backing up the intention is the capital to buy all that is needed to impress the motion picture public with the fact that the Charter Features Corporation is to be the foremost producer of high-class features in series form. Benjamin Chapin as LINCOLN