Moving Picture World (Oct-Nov 1919)

Page scan 000524 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 #:
000524
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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420 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD November 22. 1919 F.I.L.M. Club Holds Bggfsfe&K The F.I.L.1.1. Club of New York City held a beefsteak dinner at Ilealy's on Saturday evening, November 8. About 150 members and guests participated. The satisfying of the inner man was interspersed with several vaudeville numbers and the beguiling music of a colored jazz quartet. Without the aid of 2.75 the whole affair was one of melody and mirth. In a burst of spontaneous combustion Bert Sanford, of Pathe, put the professional Salome, who preceded him, to blush by his terpsiohorean interpretations. After the feasting and frolic Sam Eekman, treasurer of the club, who presided, appointed I. E. Chadwick to act as toastmaster . Mr. Chadwick said he would commit the exchangemen to silence and call upon the exhibitors to express themselves about the merits and demerits of F.I.L.M. clubs in general and the New York club in particular and hoped they would do so without fear or favor. Sydney Cohen, president of the New York Exhibitors State League, said: "I have nothing but praise for the film clubs. They have been helpful in many ways and brought about an intimate fellowship between exhibitors and exchangemen. I believe in organization and point with pride to the election of Mayor' Lunn of Schenectady. Utica won Sunday opening on referendum; likewise Mount Vernon through the efforts of organized exhibitors. Pacific Coast Magnate Talks E. B. Johnson, secretary of the Turner & Dahnker Circuit of San Francisco, said: "The film clubs serve their purpose, not only in the adjusting of differences between exhibitor and exchanges, but in getting together -elements in such affairs as we have enjoyed this evening." William Brandt, president of the Brooklyn Exhibitors League, said: "I am in favor of F. I. L. M. .clubs, particularly their dinners. They bring the exhibitors in close touch with the me'n they otherwise deal with only behind their desks." Charles O'Reilly said: "I commend the F.I.L.M. Club for it3 efficiency as a much needed and constructive organization. Well organized exhibitors associating, with the film club can accomplish wonders. It is too bad we haven't got a well organized National Association. If we had then we would have a combinr ation that would be a power in the industry.” Those Who Dined and Thirsted Among those present were Bernard H. Mills, D. Beck, Harry Brandt, William Brandt, Sydney Samson, Isidor Goetz, Milton J. Swartz, Norman H. Moray, Robert S. V/olff, C. W. Mott, William H. Hollander, Bert Knobel, Bert Sanford, Louis Rosenbluh, S. J. Swartz, Dave Rosengarten. Max Talder, Murray Rosenbluh, Abe Burnstein, S. J. Schaefer, Morris A. Kashin, M. C. Hughes, Hy Gainsborg, Julius Singer, II . J. Mellon, A.’ V. Filben and R. Wolff. William Marsh. M. S. Felder, l. J. Schwartz, Sam MAY ALLISON, A HOLDING COMPANY IB "FAIR AND WARMER" Bach, Charles A. Goldreyer, Joseph Klein, B. Johnson, R. H. Clark, Lester W. Adler, Charles Steiner, Jack Schwartz, H. Weisner, Ike Hartstall, D. Sneider, R. J. Tonry, Joe Weinberg, J. J. Darcey, H. L. Lyons, L. L. Lyons L. L. Baren, W. E. Raynow, William Weisfeld, Sydney S. Cohen, Charles R. O'Reilly, Henry E. Friedman, Thomas J. Connors, Sam Sonin, Henry Siegel, S.P. Reiben, A. R. Reiben and William Burnstine. Wilton Blumberg , Henry Ginsberg, Marcus Miller, Ira H. Simmons, F. J. Willis, A. Blumenstein, S. Harris E. Mayor, L. Solmeider, A. E. Rohlfs , R. W. (Yiddish) MoHevins, Nathan Hirsh, H. H. Eekman, Philip Lewis, R. J. Clark, Ben Levine, Mack D. Weinberger, James M. Ashcroft, N. E. Mallouf, J. Bellman, Henry Fried, Howard S. Hummel, George Steiner, Jack II. Kaplan and L. Soutnor. • Dick Perry, Charles H. Moses, Samuel Jierler, Fred • E^ Baer, Dave Sohmer, W. C. Herrman, George Uffner, Charles Rosenzweig, L. B. Metzger, Hall H. Spector.H. H. Hirschlin, Foster Moore, C. B. Hoy, Charles Steiner, William Heilkemeier, Samuel Marcorice, William S. Schwartz, Henry Cole, Lieutenant Jacques, Sol Title, £ouis Geller, -Ren Janowitz, Max Tellerman, Al Kudroff, I. E. Chadwick, S. P. Reiben, I.' Wormser, Ben Steiner. Sam Spedon, Nathan Beier and Al Scutnor. SPEDON ROBSON IN "BUTTERFLY MAN" CAST Andrew Robson, erstwhile stage favorite, and one of the beat-known character men in pictures, having finished with. Dustin Farnum, haB been engaged to support Lew Cody in "The Butterfly Man" under Ida May Parkis direotion. Robson was in the all-star cast of "The Beloved Cheater," the premier Cody release filmed at the L. J. Gasnier studios. Augustus Phillips, a popular leading man in stock, has also been added to the cast of players supporting Lew Cody. SHOWING THE DRAMATIC TINGE OF "WHO'S YOUR BROTHER?" THE CURTISS PICTURES FEATURE WITH EDITH TALIAFERRO