Moving Picture World (Jul-Aug 1922)

Page scan 000502 from Moving Picture World

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Jul-Aug 1922
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Jul-Aug 1922)
Leaf #:
000502
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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American Releasing Corp. presents ( The most rollicking comedy-drama of 1922 A cast headed by Marguerite de la Motte supported by four debghtful old scamps in the persons of Tullv Marshall, Russell Simpson. Frank Brownlee and Jack Dill. The story was originally published in Adventure Magazine under the title “Assisting Ananias" and Tuttle, the author, hasn't missed one laugh. In China when the amused Orientals enjoy a humorous picture they lean forward on their grass mats and bump their foreheads on the ground. Here in the United States audiences will come mighty hear rolling out of their seats. Years ago you remember how they howled over Doug Fairbanks’ crazy conceit “The Mystery of the Leaping Fish”? Very well, those are the kind of laughs your audiences will get out of “Fools of Fortune.” Belly laughs that start ’way down under the belt and make you rock all over. Wise old Typewriting Tuttle — way out in California. He sure has started something with this picture. If he writes another one like this they 11 run him for President. For Pre-release Only American RELEASING CORPORATION In Canada: Canadian Releasing Corporation. Limited FOOLS OF FORTUNE oAmazinghj directed hip Louis William Chaudet And titled for all the laughs in the world by its author WC. TUTTLE