Moving Picture World (Jul 1921)

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Jul 1921
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Jul 1921)
Leaf #:
00031
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:
September 21, 2023
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July 2, 1921 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 21 F.-B. WAR RE N The Hell-Fire Battalion F. B. Warren Corporation now announces to the exhibitors of the country the operating personnel of its nation-wide sales organization. The men who comprise our corporate family are the best paid resident managers who have ever operated a distributing company in the history of the motion picture industry. The stars opposite the names of these capable and resourceful aides indicate the number of years that each one has been identified and associated with the head of this company. All of us learned a long while ago to like each other; to play the game by' the same rules; to make friends of our exhibitor-customers and to go through hell for each other, whenever occasion demanded it. Every manager of an F. B. Warren Corporation office has a partnership bonus earning interest in the gross receipts of his office and, based upon careful operation, every employe in every office will also have a participating interest in the earnings of the office. OFFICE ATLANTA BOSTON BUFFALO CHICAGO CINCINNATI CLEVELAND DALLAS DENVER DETROIT KANSAS CITY LOS ANGELES MINNEAPOLIS NEW ORLEANS NEW YORK OKLAHOMA CITY PHILADELPHIA PITTSBURG SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE SPOKANE ST. LOUIS WASHINGTON MANAGER ***John C. Shannon **Alexander Weissman **Thomas W. Brady ******Sidney J. Goldman, Vice Pres. ***Irving Hanower C. E. Holah **Doak Roberts **Irving P. Arnold ***J. J. Milstein ******Benjatnin Blotcky *****William H. Jenner, Vice Pres. William R. Wilkerson **Selected; to be announced ***Marx S. Nathan **Selected; to be announced **Edgar Moss, Vice Pres. **William Warner **William A. Crank **Louis Amacher **Selected; to be announced ***C. D. Hill ***Rudolph Berger