Moving Picture World (Nov-Dec 1923)

Page scan 000544 from Moving Picture World

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Nov-Dec 1923
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Nov-Dec 1923)
Leaf #:
000544
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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444 MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 1, 1923 “THE LEAVENWORTH CASE” A Whitman Bennett Production MOVING PICTURE WORLD : Almost at the first flash you find yourself face to face with a seemingly unsolvable mystery and from then on, with no waste footage, your interest is held tensely until the final and thoroughly satisfactory solution. Here is an absorbing and exciting entertainment for all who like a good detective-crimemystery story — and who does not? MOTION PICTURE NEWS: No type of story is more popular in these United States than a good detective yarn, and Anna Katharine Green’s mystery tale “The Leavenworth Case” is said to be her most widely read and best liked work. Therefore to begin with this picture it can boast of a real plot. It is one that bristles with action — action that begins soon after the introductory reel gets under way and keeps rolling along at a merry pace right up to the finish. The scene in “The Rat Trap,” a sort of third-degree chamber, possesses real thrills. The entire mounting is of a type that stamps this as a high class offering. EXHIBITORS HERALD: “The Leavenworth Case” loses none of its entertainment value through transference to the screen. Its highly dramatic moments have been well retained. The picture is well staged and lighted and full of dramatic interest; the story flows smoothly and works up to a splendid climax. EXHIBITORS TRADE REVIEW: From the time the old man is found dead in his sound-proof study till the very end, where both girls are freed of suspicion and the culprit is run down, the film runs along with a smoothness and continuity which will carry its audiences along with it. The production is fairly peppered with thrilling incidents, not the least of which is a hairraising fist fight on the very edge of the roof of the four-story house from which the villain is finally thrown and killed. The skill with which this situation is handled cannot help reflect itself on the reaction of the spectators, who, we feel sure will be edging forward on their seats. “THE LEAVENWORTH CASE”