Moving Picture World (Nov-Dec 1927)

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Nov-Dec 1927
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Nov-Dec 1927)
Leaf #:
000280
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Early Cinema
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:
December 07, 2023
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i6 MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 17, 1927 LUPINO LANE COMEDIES HAMILTON COMEDIES BIG BOY-JUVENILE COMEDIES DOROTHY DEVORE COMEDIES BOWERS COMEDIES LARRY SEMON COMEDIES TUXEDO COMEDIES With "Johnny Arthur MERMAID COMEDIES ( Jack White Productions) CAMEO COMEDIES LYMAN H. HOWE'S HODGE-PODGE OUTDOOR SKETCHES by Robert C. Bruce FELIX' THE CAT Cartoons by Pat Sullivan CURIOSITIES The Movie Side-Show Produced by Walter Fuller KINOGRAMS The News Reel That Tops the Field CARTER DeHAVEN in Character Studies McCALL COLOUR FASHION NEWS with Hope Hampton T. O YOU The Merriest of Christmases and Most Prosperous of New Years For twelve years, I have had the privilege of wishing the motion picture exhibitors of America a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. And each succeeding year, these wishes have been realized with increasing fullness. Year after year, the Christmas Season has brought our industry to the close of an epoch of new progress and new prosperity. So glowing have been the fade-outs of Old Years, that high hopes for the New have been far removed from the usual holiday platitudes, and anticipations of things better and finer have been cherished as certainties. Nineteen hundred and twenty-seven has been a year without parallel for exhibitors and producers alike. I he Merriness of our Christmas is assured; for it comes at the end of a twelvemonth of unprecedented progress. We enter into the Yuletide Season with a sense of having brought motion pictures nearer to that goal which we never shall acknowledge having reached. And, with the promise of a past so unique in its achievement, we move on into 1928, knowing that the industry will conquer new kingdoms and wishing each other a full share in the treasures to be won. PRESIDENT EDUCATIONAL FILM EXCHANGES, Inc. Member. Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. Inc. . Will H. Hays. President