Moving Picture World (Jan-Feb 1927)

Page scan 000455 from Moving Picture World

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Jan-Feb 1927
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Jan-Feb 1927)
Leaf #:
000455
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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February 5, 1927 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 413 JsJOKMA oHhAKEK now 1 Y playing a lead in the new M etvo-Goldwyn-Mayer production, “Upstage,” directed by Monta Bell. T/ALENy TINES as they used to be. . Pathe reminds us that things are not so different nowadays. This is a scene from " Songs of England,” showing Peggy Shaw with the pensive eyes. rpHE cigar and Ernst Lubitsch, the German director, now making "Old Heidelberg” for M.-G.-M., JTUGENE O’BRIEN, who ^ has been signed for the lead in Columbia's picture the “ Romantic Age,” is handsome as ever. ]\ZfISS PEGGY HAMILTON is convinced that she can teach the stars how to be brilliant. This is one of her gowns as exhibited at the Biltmore in her fashion show for Fox, gown designed by Kathleen Kay. JVTABEL NORMAND, Hal Roach comedienne in Pathe comedy, looks old fashioned tin this Valentine picture but she is entirely 1927. A KISS is only a shadowy t h i n g. Frances Lee and Bobby Vernon in a scene from "Dugout,” the current Educational Bobby Vernon comedy. rT'HE interest in dummies seems to continue. Irene Rich, William Demarest, and Paul Stein, director, seem to be interested in this life size novelty which appears in Warner Brothers picture , “Don’t Tell the Wife.”