Moving Picture World (Nov - Dec 1918)

Page scan 000234 from Moving Picture World

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Nov - Dec 1918
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Nov - Dec 1918)
Leaf #:
000234
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:
June 27, 2024
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784 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD November 23, 1918 How the Fox Idea Is yours a neighborhood theatre? Then make it a city theatre — a local institution that is as well known a mile — two miles — away as it is around the corner. You'd like that, wouldn't you? — and it's so easy when you know how. This is how — give the public the pictures it wants. That's what William Fox has been doing — and you'll admit he is some success as a producer. And since William Fox gives the public what it wants, your best bet is to give your public Fox pictures. The Forty-fourth Street Theatre, New York, has been drawing patronage from all sections of the metropolis with "Salome." Many theatres in New York, Chicago, St. Louis and other cities are making the same tremendous appeal in the same way — with William Fox productions. Fox pictures knock down neighborhood fences — go over the top of sectional boundaries — annex new tereritories and spread gradually over the whole municipal map. Here's the Opportuit PICTURES EXTRAORDINARY STANDARD PICTURES LES MISERABLES William Farnum in RIDERS OF CLEOPATRA THE PURPLE SAGE A DAUGHTER OF THE GODS THE CAILLAUX CASE BIG TIMELY PRODUCTIONS ThceTd* Bara in WHEN A W0MAN THE PRUSSIAN CUR MJN5> . T _TXT WHY AMERICA WILL WIN William Farnum in THE RAINQUEEN OF THE SEA BOW TRAIL FOX FILM CORPORATION