Moving Picture World (Sep 1916)

Page scan 000384 from Moving Picture World

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Sep 1916
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Sep 1916)
Leaf #:
000384
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:
August 01, 2024
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Albert E,. Smith President of the vitagraph Company To The Exhibitors of the United States and Canada TWENTY years ago, the moving picture was born. Twenty years ago the Vitagragh Company was organized, and for Twenty years the Vitagraph has blazed the way — The pioneer for everything new in this great industry. The same men who have stood at the V itagraph helm during the past years — The same bright minds that have worked to make Vitagraph the " GOLD STANDARD" in filmdom. Are still at their posts. BUT— Eternal progress is eternal change. Time and tide wait for no man, and The passing of the years, sees the passing of old methods. The wasteful system of many organizations under many heads endeavoring to produce a uniform program of uniform merit has passed. Concentration and efficiency are the order of the day. Vitagraph is concentrating that the Exhibitor may get the highest efficiency. Vitagraph has arranged for a capital unheard of in motion picture finance. Vitagraph has acquired the V-L-S-E and several important producing organizations, all of which will be concentrated under one management, so that The highest efficiency may he applied to the production of the highest type of picture and Distributed in the most efficient way. Therefore — Exhibitor and Producer Will profit by the concentrated effort of THE GREATER VITAGRAPH. T— ■