Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1912)

Page scan 0001147 from Moving Picture World

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Jul-Sep 1912
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1912)
Leaf #:
0001147
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:
May 30, 2024
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THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1 143 A remarkable production plus a well-known Star plus a well-known pla? and plus the well-known Solax Photography. Four big perfect factors in one big perfect attraction. DUBLIN DAN THE IRISH DETECTIVE THREE REELS OF THRILLS AND SENSATION. WITH THE POPULAR BARNEY GILMORE In the leading role. The late star with "Kelly from the Emerald Isle" and "The Rocky Road to Dublin" and other big attractions. STATE RIGHTS SELLING THROUGH FILM SUPPLY COMPANY OF AMERICA. ATTRACTIVE ADVERTISING MATTER Includes, three sheets, two kinds of one sheets, half sheet lobby displays, Heralds, Magnets, Colored Slides and still pictures. OTHER ATTRACTIONS THE LOVE OF THE FLAG RELEASED WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1912 A draughtsman is about to betray the plans of Uncle Sam's fortifications to a foreign government. He is moved by a desire for vengeance on officials who have wronged him. He experiences a revulsion of feeling when he sees his little boy patriotically waving a flag in ecstasies of delight as automatic soldiers march by. A wonderfully human story full of patriotism and "love of country sentiments" (Comedy-Drama). THE FUGITIVE RELEASED FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1912 A woman is killed. Her daughter consecrates the soil where her mother fell. Later this sentimental girl, the daughter of a sheriff, hides a fugitive in a shack, out of the reach of her father who is looking for the man. In taking food to the man the girl unwittingly betrays his presence. Shots are fired in a chase and the girl who has become attached to the fugitive imagines he had been killed and by queer coincidence had dropped on her mother's consecrated grave. She grows insane. Her sanity is restored by a remarkable test (Drama). October 2, 1912, SI'S SURPRISE PARTY. Comedy. SoWGompany FORT LEE, NEW JERSEY