Moving Picture World (Jan-Feb 1927)

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Jan-Feb 1927
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Jan-Feb 1927)
Leaf #:
000348
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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Rathe Review Jhe Maqazine of the Screen Season of 1927 Announcing Seven Series of Special Interest 1. Smithsonian-Chrysler Expedition to Tanganyika, Africa. Under Dr. Wm. Mann, Director of the National Zoological Park at Washington, this widely publicised expedition secured a collection of over 2,000 wild animals, taken alive. Staff Cameraman Charles Charlton, with the expedition, secured many scenes of marvelous interest. Seven installments, each between 350-500 feet, beginning in March. & 'f 2. Animal Comedy Featurettes. Produced by Mr. and Mrs. John Rounan. Cleverly trained animals in really funny little comedies, each between 400-500 feet. One a month, beginning in March. i1 3. American Museum of Natural History — George Palmer Putnam Expedition to Northern Greenland. This expedition received national publicity. Staff Cameraman Maurice Kellerman secured absorbing and unusual pictures, many of them sensational, among them Carl Dunrud, the cowboy, roping live walrus, polar bears, etc. A 1 A l ±.L_ _ 1 I _ 1 .'1 .1 _ * _1_ _ " a L I _ _ _J L ! L. &. 1 i. » II „ _ i . Also Art Young, who shoots the world’s largest wild animals with only a bow and arrow. Eight installments, each 400-500 feet, beginning in March. if 0' 4. Pathecolor. Many American subjects of special interest, including the National Parks; also Corea, the unknown. 5. Wonderful Microscopic Subjects. Things never before seen on the screen, including some showing the blood battles between disease germs and the defensive white corpuscles of the blood. Prepared by Dr. Heinz Rosenberg, Microscopist of the Rockefeller Institute, N. Y. 6. Process Camera Novelties. Approximately one a month, representing a continuation of the popular series made with the Knechtel Process. 111 7. Expedition to the Hidden Mountains of the Hoggar, in the Sahara. Only three white men have visited this unknown part of the world. These pictures make it known. ONE REEL, ONCE A WEEK