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 #:
0001406
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:
May 30, 2024
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1322 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD August 31, 1918 ft icreencra BY LOUIS REEVES HARRISON An invaluable help to the writer who is making a serious effort to evolve stones for screen production Of great interest too to the individual who is watching the development of "the silent drama." $2.00 PER COPY, POSTPAID Published and for Sale by Moving Picture World 516 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YOPJC CITY Schiller Build nf . Chicago. Illinois Wright & Callender Building. Los Angeles. Cal. 6 NEW FEATURES FOR SURE RESULTS The CAMKRA that keeps abreast of the Science of Molten Picture Photography. THE UNIVERSAL MOTION PICTLHI-: CAMERA lias New Framing adjustment Better film transmission Ni w Poeaauma lulu Nen footage Indicator New "Static" prevention, etc. More Speed — li.tt.-r results :il leal than half the price Millar cameras. A postal will bring you complete description of the world's greatest value in motion picture cameras. BURKE & JAMES, Inc. Sole Wholesale Agents 240 E. Ontario Street. Chleare Eastern Branch: 22$ Fifth Arenne. New York City Moving Picture Machine Patents My Specialty PATENTS William N. Moore PATENT ATTORNEY LOAN AND TRUST BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. The Orst important step is to learn whether yon can obtain a patent. Please send sketch of your Invention with $5.00 and I will examine the patent records and inform you whether you are entitled to a patent, the cost and manner of procedure. Personal Attention Established 25 Tears For Long Lease I own best location — in best City — in best State for a first-class picture or vaudeville house. It is in Houston. Texas hot ."ill x 125 feet air and ventilation all four sides — faces South, thus receiving Southern breezes e\civ day in the year. Only 100 Feet from Rice Hotel the largest building in Texas. Houston will have about 50,000 soldiers this fall. Authorities say camp to be permanent. Army of nun :it work now improving the grounds. Every car line in city touches location. Most congested spot lor pedestrians in city. Write or wire me. ED. C. SMITH HOUSTON, TEXAS Sole Owner — Not an Agent Educate Your Audience to Help Fight Censorship Introducing a bill providing for the Censorship of Moving Pictures is a favorite Indoor pastime in legislative halls throughout the country. Eternal vigilance is the price of the Exhibitor's mere safety If not his success. Presented in the proper manner, the Ceni^rship of Moving Pictures is Just as obnoxious to the Exhibitor's audiences aa It is to the Exhibitor. And public opinion aroused in behalf of moving pictures and against their unfair and discriminatory control is the surest weapon to defeat Censorship. We have prepared a series of nine different stereopticon slides which crystallize the argument against Censorship; one of the slides is shown herewith. These slides shown repeatedly In any theatre cannot fall to influence public opinion in that locality against Censorship. They will line up the general public on the side of the Exhibitor. You Ought to Be Showing Them Nowl Legislatures Everywhere Are Oonvenmg Set of Nine Slides, carefully packed, will be sent postpaid an receipt of lie*. MOVING PICTURE WORLD 516 Fifth Avenue, New York City The Miniremeit el (hit Tktitra •etiret the ce-oaeratian of ill iitrois in prt*i«ii{ riof! *t will ■ • "Itfiliiet" teiItrtkip if Htfiif pictures '