Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1911)

Page scan 000176 from Moving Picture World

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Jul-Sep 1911
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1911)
Leaf #:
000176
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
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:
July 25, 2024
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1 66 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD TO THE EXHIBITOR AT no period in our proposition have we lost sight of the ** significance of the Exhibitor's request for information. We have worked as rapidly as possible to effect exchange connections and at this hour we are formulating plans for territory with many prospective exchange men who have come to New York at our request. We are in fact ready for business and during the next thirty days you will probably be solicited for service by a Representative of the National Film Exchange for your territory. You have given us encouragement by your request for information, we are ready to serve you on a basis as remarkable as is the proposition of exclusiveness. We propose that the parent institution shall protect you in your contract for service; we propose that every National Exchange shall deliver what it contracts to deliver. We propose that every exhibitor shall understand that what he is entitled to receive to the end, that no man may with sincerity attack our program, which we pledge you shall be a program of merit and variety, served on a safe and sane basis. Do you wish to receive a copy of the National Idea. Our program consists of the exclusive products of the following manufacturers: Mono Film Co., Paris. Film D. Art, Paris. Acquila Film, Turin, Italy. Savoia Film, Turin, Italy. Helios Film, Rome, Italy. Latium Film, Rome Italy. Mondia Film, Paris. Comedo Film, Milan, Italy. Deutsches Mutoscope and Biograph Film, Berlin. Meesters Film, B|erlin. Deutsches Bioscope, Berlin. Cricks & Martin, London. Clarendon Films, London. Hepworth Film, London. The following American Manufacturers Plantation Film Co., Florida. Mohawk Film Co., South Dakota. Rose Manufacturing Company, Indiana. Oklahoma Producing Company, Oklahoma. Federal Film Co., Mass. California Picture Play, Cal. Washington Film Co., Washington. Columbia Film Co., New York. Our programme is now complete. Our releases will begin on or about August 19th. We are ready to show the goods, quality and exclusive services. NATIONAL FILM DISTRIBUTING COMPANY 34-36 W. HOUSTON STREET N. Y. CITY, U. S. A.