Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1911)

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Jul-Sep 1911
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1911)
Leaf #:
000199
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
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:
July 25, 2024
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THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 189 solves may be small in numbers their influence with the public in a matter of this kind would be very great and their approval and commendation of the film valuable in proportion. As a rule these Dante scholars are men of prominence in their communities, men identified with public life or with educational institutions. With the aid of a private and special exhibition to such men, the daily press will be forced into serious recognition of the moving picture, and will send critics of ability to treat the matter, instead of giving the attraction a few lines of the press-agent variety of criticism for the sake of the advertising space bought bv the exhibitor. Such serious recognition would mean much and would at once impress the public and make them understand that a new and higher tvpe of moving picture has come and that higher prices are a very natural consequence. Second on the list of Dante friends and admirers are the Christian, more especially the Roman Catholic clergy men. Dante is today revered as an orthodox Catholic, and his poem is indeed based strictly on the orthodox Catholic philosophy. If here and there in the poem he isseemingly severe on the papacy, it must be borne in mind that in Dante's time free criticism of the Pope was permitted and that the popes entering political life as they then did laid themselves open to the anger and enmity of their political enemies, of whom Dante, however orthodox in matters of faith, was not the least bitter. The greatest aid to the proper presentation must, bowever, be the complete explanatory lecture. Every audience will feel the need of it before the first reel is well under way. If this feature of the production is treated intelligently its success is bound to be complete. It will, however, tax a good speaker and a co npetent Dante scholar to the uttermost to keep pace with the high artistic standard set by the film-maker. Nothing less than the best will do. CRITERION THEATER, POPLAR BLUFF. MO. IMPORTANT NOTICE. George Kleine announces that his big feature, "A Society Mother," which he ha> been advertising for some weeks for release on July 25th, has been delayed in shipment from Paris and cannot be released until July 29th. The reel which he has decided to release in its place is "A Favoring Current," 680 feet; "St. Malo and the English Channel." three hundred and ten feet. HERBERT BLACHE SAILS FOR EUROPE. Mr. Herbert Blache, president of the Gaumont Co.. of New York, accomanpanied by his wife. Mrs. Alice Blache. president of the Solax Co., will sail on the Kronprinzessin Cecilie. July 26th for a two months' trip through European countries, for a combined business and pleasure trip. They lor.k forward to meeting their many friends in all the big Eun pean cities, where they are both well known.