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 #:
000564
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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uick Reference Picture Chart c Tfandij, Compact information to Help you with your Bookings, Showinq ■■ 7itle,Star dype of Story, Date of Moving Picture World lieview, and Jootaqe on Current Jilms One of the Departments That Make Moving Picture World the Leader ASSOCIATED exhibitors Kind of Picture The Big Show (Lowell) Circus drama Galloping Cowboy (B. Cody) Western Earth Woman (Mary Alden) Drama Rawrnde (Buffalo Bill, Jr.) Mystery-western Dangerous Dub (Buddy Roosevelt) Western Twisted Triggers (Wally Wales) Action western Carnival Girl (Marion Mack) Melodrama Bonanza Buckaroo (Buffalo Bill, Jr.) Western comedy-melo. Hidden Way (Mary Carr) Crook melodrama ... Code of the Northwest (Sandow) Dog-melodrama Flving Mail (A1 Wilson) Crook melodrama Call of the Wilderness (Sandow) Dog melodrama Bandit Buster (Buddy Roosevelt) Western Bad Man’s Bluff (Buffalo Bill, Jr.) Western BRAY PRODUCTIONS On the Farm For the Love O’ Pete Getting Hitched Velocity ... Fighting Fool (L. Sargent) Transportation Nize Monkey At the Beach Trail of the Monk Monkey Huka Luke Warm Daze.. Blue Black Comma Butterfly .. Even Up A Sport Calendar . McDougall Alley Lantz cartoon McDougal Alley Novelty Fistical Culture Screen magazine Sunkist comedy .McDougall Alley . Lantz’ cartoon .Sunkist comedy .McDougall Alley . Fistical Culture series .Nature Special .Fistical culture .Novelty Magazine ... So’s Your Monk Sunkist comedy . Dog Gonnit Hot Dog cartoon. CHADWICK PICTURES CORP Paint and Powder (E. Hammerstein) Stage life drama .... Some Pun’kins (Chas. Ray) Rural comedy-drama Perfect Clown (Larry Semon) Feature comedy ..... Prince of Broadway (G. Walsh) Prize ring drama ... Count of Luxembourg (G. Walsh) ...Romantic drama Transcontinental Limited (all star) Railroad melodrama . Devil’s Island (Frederick) Mother-love drama The Bells (L. Barrymore) Drama Review Feet 1926 15. . 5,385 22.. . 4,639 29.. 5,830 5. . 4,460 31.. . 4,472 7.. . 4,470 14. . 4,962 21.. . 4,460 28. . 5.919 11.. 3,965 25.. . 4.500 18.. 4,218 25.. 4,468 1927 1.. , 4,441 .Oct. 23.. 2 rls 23.. 1 rl 30.. 2 rls 30.. 1 rl 6.. . 2 rls 27.. 1 rl .Nov. 29. . 2 rls. ..Nov. 29. .2 rls. 29. .1 rl. 4. .2 rls. 4.. .2 rl.s 11. . 2 ! rls 11. . 1 rl 25., . 2 rls 25. . 1 rl 1927 1.. 2 rls 8.. 1 rl 17.. 7,000 26.. 6,500 1926 2.. 5,700 9.. 5.800 ..Feb. 27.. 6,400 6.. 6.400 23.. 6.900 13.. 6,300 COLUMBIA PICTURES CORP. Lone Wolf Returns (Lytell-Dove) Crook melodrama ...July 31.. 5,750 Belle of Broadway (Comp son -Rawlinson). Romantic Drama 5,675 Sweet Rosie O’Grady (S. Mason) Comedy drama Oct. 2.. 6,108 Screen Snapshots Three issues Aug. 28.. 1.000 False Alarm (T^wis-Carr-Revier) Melodrama 5.235 When the Wife’s Away (Arthur) Farce comedy A Major Differs From a Sergeant A MAJOR in the army is a lot bigger than a sergeant — in power. So, in this Picture Chart, a major error is one that has power to hinder exhibitors in getting accurate information when they want it. As a part of Moving Picture World’s service to readers — the service that wins leadership and holds it— -we send out a dollar to each reader who writes a letter to us pointing out major errors — footage changes we were not told about, incorrect review date, etc. But not the little “sergeant” stuff, please. One chap wrote that there was a line shifted out of alignment a quarter inch at the bottom of a page. Think he was kidding, but you get what the difference is. We’re glad to pay the dollars when you show us major errors — incorrect titles, wrong footages, calling a comedy a drama — those are major errors. Kind of Picture Review Fett Truthful Sex (Busch-H. Gordon) ... Better Way (InceRevier-Strong). . . . Remember (D. PhillipsE. Metcalfe). 5,831 5.495 Stolen Pleasures (Revier) Wandering Girls (RevierAgnew) .. . ...... 5,054 5,426 Waldorf Price of Success (Lake-Glass) Sealed Lips (Revier) When Husbands Flirt (Revier) Fate of a Flirt (Revier) Perfection Fighting Youth (W. Fairbanks) Melodrama 4,781 Speed Mad (W. Fairbanks) Racing melodrama 4,441 New Champion (W. Fairbanks) Boxing melodrama 4,498 Great Sensation (W. Fairbanks) Melodrama 4,470 Handsome Brute (W. Fairbanks) Police drama 4,779 CRANFIELD & CLARKE, INC. Molly May Series (Violet Mersereau). 2,00t International Twelve Novelty Twelve 1,OOC Famous Paintings De Luxe dramas 2,000 Real Charleston Lesson novelty April 24.. 2,008 The Angelus Drama de luxe May 15.. 2,OOC Wooden Shoes “International” May 8 EDUCATIONAL FILM CORP Nothing Matters (Hamilton) Creeps ; Felix in Tale of Two Kitties Hold ’Er, Sheriff (Bowes) Hitchin’ Up (HierB) Felix Scoots Through Scotland Meet My Dog (Bowes-Virg. Vance) Hodge Podge .... Chase Yourself (Adams) Who’s My Wife Felix Rings the Ringer School Daze Honest Injun (Arthur) Who Hit Me? (St. John) Mister Wife (Bums) Excess baggage (Big Boy) Solid Gold Squirrel Food (Bowes) Move Along curiosities Daffy Dill (Burns) Chips of the Old Block Felix Misses His Swiss Dummy Love (Vernon) Kiss Papa (Conley) Here Comes Charlie Uppercuts (Duffy) My Kid (Big Boy) The Blue Boy Open House (Johnny Arthur) Jolly Tars (Lloyd Hamilton) Sons of the Surf The Radio Bug (Phil Dunham) Missing Links Jelly Fish (Frank Pangbom) Flaming Ice A Dippy Tar (Billy Dooley) Two Lip Time Pink Elephants (A1 St. John) Hodge Podge Yellow Pirate Scrambled Yeggs Whatnots Hold Still (Jack Duffy) Cut Price Glory Shell Socked (Adams) River Road Pound Foolish Dodging Trouble (Neal Burns) Plumb Goofy (Phil Dunham) Felix Shatters the Sheik His Off-Day (Dunham) Figures of Fancy , Bad Breaks Felix Hunts the Hunter Thens and Nows Raging Tide Midnight Follies Mighty Smithy Ooen Snaces (Bie Boy) Volix Bust9 a Bubble Flamine Romance (A! St. John) Movieland 1926 .Comedy June 26.. 2,000 ..Mermaid comedy June 26.. 2,000 .Sullivan cartoon June 26.. 1,000 ..Cameo comedy July 3.. 1,000 ..Hiers comedy July 3 2,000 ..Sullivan cartoon July 3.. 1,000 ..Cameo comedy July 3.. 1,000 ..Lyman Howe mag July 10.. 1,900 ..Comedy July 10.. 2,000 .Jack White prod July 10.. 2,000 .Sullivan cartoon July 17.. 1,000 Sullivan cartoon July 24.. 1,000 Comedy July 24.. 2,000 .Comedy July 24. 2,000 ..Christie comedy July 31.. 2,000 ..Juvenile comedy July 31.. 2,000 ..Jack White comedy Aug. 7.. 2,000 .Comedy Aug. 7.. 1,000 .Lloyd Hamilton Cam, Aug. 7.. 2,000 .Sideshow folk .....Aug. 14.. 1,000 .Christie comedy Aug. 14.. 2,000 .Hoage-Fodge .,,..Aug. 14.. 1,000 .Sullivan cartoon ....Aug. 28.. 1,000 • Christie comedy Aug. 28.. 2,000 .Mermaid comedy Aug. 28.. 2,000 .Lloyd Hamilton comedy.. Aug. 28.. 2,000 .Christie comedy Sept. 4.. 2,000 .Juvenile comedy Sept. 4.. 2,000 .Romance prod Sept. 4.. 2,000 .Tuxedo comedy ..Sept. 11.. 2,000 .Hamilton comedy Sept. 11.. 2,000 .Bruce scenic Sept. 11.. 1,000 .Comedy Sep. 25.. 1,000 .“Life” Cartoon Sep. 25.. 1,000 .Comedy Sep. 25.. 2,000 .“Life” Cartoon Sep. 25.. 1,000 .Comedy Oct. 2.. 2,000 Felix the cat Oct. 2.. 1,000 Mermaid comedy Oct. 2.. 2.000 .Travel scenes Oct. 16.. 1,000 Life cartoon com Oct. 16.. 1,000 Felix cat cartoon Oct. 16.. 1,000 Futter’s Curiosities Oct. 16.. l.t*v' Christie comedy Oct. 16.. 2,000 Life cartoon Oct. 23.. 1 rl World War comedy Oct. 30.. 2 rls Bruce scenic Oct. 30.. 1 rl Comedy Nov. 6.. 1 rl. Christie comedy Nov. 6.. 2 rls Cameo comedy Nov. 6.. 1 rl Sullivan cartoon Nov. 13.. 1 rl. Cameo comedy Nov. 13.. 1 rl. Hodge-Podge Nov. 13.. 1 ri. Cameo comedy Nov. 20.. 1 rl Sullivan cartoon Nov. 20.. 1 rl “Curiosities” ....Nov. 20.. 1 rl Life cartoon Nov. 27.. 1 rl Mermaid comedy Nov. 27.. 2 rls Life cartoon Nov. 27.. 1 rl Juvenile comedy Nov. 27.. 2 rls Sullivan cartoon Nov. 29.. 1 rl. Burlesque melodrama Nov. 29. .2 rls. Lupino Lane comedy Nov. 29. .2 rls.