Moving Picture World (Oct-Nov 1919)

Page scan 000518 from Moving Picture World

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Oct-Nov 1919
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Oct-Nov 1919)
Leaf #:
000518
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:
May 30, 2024
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414 TEE MOVING PICTURE WORLD November 2k. 1919 SHOWING THE SI2E AND POWER OP "SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE," PRODUCED BY ALLAN DWAN FOR RWaT.aRT Hoffman Goes fo New Post MILTON E. HOFFMAN has sailed from Hew York for London* where he will assume the general management of the studio of Famous Players-Lasky Erit.ish Producers, Ltd. Upon Ur. Hoffman's arrival ir London, Albert A. Kauffman, who has had charge. of the construction of the plant and its equipment*, will' return to this country. The London studio was formerly a center of production activity, but the war having halted the motion picture industry in Great Britain it was necessary .to completely remodel the structure and install entirely new equipment. This was a task requiring many months .to perform, but under Captain Kaufman s supervision the plant has been gradually transformed into a modern, well equipped studio. The work was done according to the most approved American standards. Under Mr. Hofflnan active production operations will be started at once. One company will commence work forthwith. Ky early soring it is probable that at least three companies will be working simultaneously, with accommodations for more producing units in reserve . KAPID PROGRESS ON "THE FORTUNE HUNTER" Earle Williams, Jean Paige, his supporting woman, and the members of the supporting company are making splondid progress on "The Fortune Hunter,." Vitagraph's screen version of Yinohell Smith's famous comedy drama. Tom Terriss is directing Mr. Williams. Owing to the widely different scenes the picture cannot oe rushed, but Mr, Williams and his fellow "TWENTY THREE AND A HALF HOURS LEAVE" WITH DOUGLAS MA aotors are keeping everlasting at it and the picture will l»e ready for release early in the Stew Year. Meantime another of Mr. Williams picture will be released by Vitagraph. This is "When a Man Loves," dn wn-ich Mr. Williams appears as a titled Englishman. It will be presented during the Christmas holidays. STERLING FILMS HANDLES HALLMARK PICTURES I. Soskl.n, president of Sterling' Films, Ltd., ot Montreal end Toronto, who recent xy Closed a vcontrent with Frank G. Hell* president of H^llmatk, Pictures Corporation, whereby Sterling Films, Ltd., will handle exclusively, in the Dominion, all of Hallmark s Famous Directors pictures twenty-six in all and its serial releases, which • include "The Trail of the Octopus" end "The Sign of the Rat," writes the New York offioe of Hallmark that the report has been circulated, in Canada, that another distributing corporation is claiming to be the distributor of Hallmark pictures in the Dominion. Mr. Hall, president of Hallmark, states that Sterling Films, Ltd., is the. sole distributor of Hallmark pictures in Canada. ELSIE FERGUSON IN "HIS HOUSE IN ORDER" A reproduction of the bizarre Bal Masque, whieh is given annually in Paris by the students of the Latin Quarter, has been built by Famous Players-Lasky at the old Triangle studio in Yonker3 for the production of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's "His House in Order," starring Elsie Ferguson under the direction of Hugh Ford, It is at tne Bal Masque that some of the most dramatis incidents in the play took place, and in the eoreen adaptation it will be possible to show details of the affair that were impossible on the stage. An automobile smash-up is another of the interesting features of the picture adaptation. iAN AND DORIS MAY, AN INCS-ARTCRAFT. IS CORKING COMEDY