Moving Picture World (Jul - Aug 1918)

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Jul - Aug 1918
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Jul - Aug 1918)
Leaf #:
0001268
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 Rivoli, N. Y.. lined them up with these thrilling films. It's easy to get the money when you've got the goods — It's easy to convince the Public you've got the goods when the press backs an attraction like this New York Daily Newspapers: N. Y. Sun, March 18, 1918 "Italians storming an Austrian trench in a hail of shrapnel are shown as one of the incidents in the official Italian War Pictures at the Rivoli this week. They arc also shown building bridges and carrying on the great mechanical work neceasary to fight the Austrians over the mountains. The] are the most vivid battle pictures that have been shown here in many months." N. Y. World, March 25, 1918 "Official Italian War Pictures at the Rivoli attracted crowded audiences last week. The victory of an Italian aviator over an Austrian Oyer, with the fall of the latter, and other graphic scenes of real fighting were shown." N. Y. Globe, April 22, 1918 'There are most thrilling incidents in the Italian War Pictures and they are the sort to keep the people in the audience on the edge of their seats until the final storming of the Austrian trench is over." Brooklyn Times, March 18, 1918 "At the Rivoli the representative of the Italian Ministry Mission to the United States, the Consular staff, and tin commercial representative of Italy gave Sunday night's performance the air of a diplomatic function and there were so many Italians in the audience that these war pictures called forth incessant applause culminating in the wildest enthusiasm whin their countrymen went 'over the top'.** Motion Picture Trade Papers: Moving Picture World, April 13, 1918 "\u Austrian battleplane pursued by Italian fliers and forced to capitulate. The bombardment of llcrmanda. Overlooking the Adriatic. The hurling of smoke bombs and the Infantry going into action under shrapnel lire protected by smoke clouds. The thrilling capture of hundreds of Austrian prisoners." Exhibitors' Trade Review, April 6, 1918 "They are quite the best stuff of its kind that has been shown here. This week's films present in all their exciting detail an aerial and naval attack on an Austrian stronghold. One of the big features is a Rghl between Italian hydroplanes and an Austrian airship. Ibis is a truly wonderful bit of motion picture photography taken by a cameraman in one of the battleplanes " Motion Picture News, Page 2216 "ITALY'S FLAMING FRONT" shows the most remarkable lighting pictures thai have ever been shown, beginning with docks of Italian aeroplanes taking the observations, the preparations in the trenches, going 'over the top' and finally the capture of droves of Austrians. Time after time the audiences broke into applause, loud cries came from the galleries again and again, and then at the end, when the torn Italian flag is shown waving over the battlefield Where shells are still bursting well, the scene at the Rivoli is one you will never forget." Everybody wants to see real fighting Italus Flaming Front" Shows War's Thrills Without Its Horrors fThe First Films of<3 Who&Batt/e < The gruesome scenes are cut out