Moving Picture World (Sep 1919)

Page scan 000325 from Moving Picture World

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Sep 1919
Author:
Chalmers Publishing Company
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Sep 1919)
Leaf #:
000325
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
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:
July 04, 2024
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September 13, 1919 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1655 Woman — Driving Power of the World As shown here with H. B. Warner in "For a Woman's Honor," Robertson Cole feature distributed by Exhibitors Mutual. iiiiiiiiiiini hi iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Doubles for Celebrities in Rolfe Cast. Actors who are doubles for celebrities run in quantities at the Fischer studios in New Rochelle, N. Y., where B. A. Rolfe is putting on "The Amazing Lovers," Charles A. Logue's adaptation of Robert W. Chambers' "The Shining Band," for presentation through A. H. Fischer Features, Inc. Robert Baton Gibbs, who plays Major Brent, is a "dead ringer" for Robert W. Chambers, while E. J. 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Treasure Island/' Stevenson's Tale of Strange Seas and Men, Is Good Material for Tourneur Vitagraph Donates Feature for Charity. Vitagraph donates the film, "The Yankee Princess," featuring Bessie Love, for its releases at the Shakespeare Theatres, Chicago, at a special performance for the Chicago Babies' Free Milk Fund. WITH all the motley crew of characters evolved by the imaginative mind of that beloved and lamented author, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island" will shortly be produced by Maurice Tourneur, whose work has brought him into the foreground of picture producers. According to Mr. Tourneur, this production of "Treasure Island," which will be a Paramount-Artcraft Special, will be characterized by a combination of realism and beauty. Mr. Tourneur hopes to make it as artistic in one sense as "The Bluebird," yet with all the bigness and romantic thrill of days which were characterized by their freedom from all that in modern times we regard as conventional. The romance of "Treasure Island," however, is not that of the softer emo tions. It is a romance of the sea, of strange and grotesque figures of old times, freebooters who made terrible the waters of the Spanish Main, thrills of desperate encounters, the terror that stalks through the night when civilization is far away and the wind whistling through gaunt branches of trees sends waves dashing madly. It is the spirit of an era gone forever which Mr. Tourneur plans to make the motif of his version of what is Stevenson's most popular work. Jack Holt v ill play Long John Silver, Wallace Beery the part of Israel Hands while the others will include Lon Chaney as Tom Merry, Bull Montana as Morgan, L. Filsen as Bones and so on. Work will start soon on this production. Film Showing Attractive Aspects of Omaha Is Largest Using Municipality as Background THE folk of Omaha came to the conclusion that their town was too good for it to continue with its light under bushel, and decided to advertise. They resolved to inform the rest of the United States that Omaha resembled its sister metropolises in the East down to the minutest detail. The resolution having been placed before a number of the city's leading business men and passed unanimously, the next step considered was the means by which this first great campaign of municipal exploitation would be undertaken. Someone suggested motion pictures. That is the reason that Harry Levey, general manager of the industrial and educational department of Universal, sent a complete staff of cameramen and directors to the Nebras'a city, with instructions to produce the greatest motion picture ever screened in which a city and its bids to fame and glory were to be the backbone. The company has returned to New York with nearly 5,000 feet ot exposed film, in which the civic beauties of Omaha have been woven into a love story. Release Second Post Picture One of the striking features of the next Paramount-Post Nature Picture, "A Voice of Gladness," released by Famous Players-Laskv Corporation, September 14, is the subtitles. These are excerpts from the best known poems of William Cullen Bryant, New England's greatest nature poet. In the subtitles such widely known poems as "Thanatopsis," "The Summer Wind" and "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood" are represented in a manner that makes the entire onereel subject a peculiarly well-blended bit of beauty and poetry. Increase Admission Prices. Beginning September 1, the Please U and Globe Theatres at St. Johnsbury, Mass., raised the price of matinees for children between the ages of 5 and 12 .years to 10 cents, with war tax added.