Moving Picture World (Nov - Dec 1918)

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
Nov - Dec 1918
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (Nov - Dec 1918)
Leaf #:
000910
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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1434 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 28, 1918 It Would Take a Grind Of 5 Years and 8 Months To Show This Picture FOX FILM CORPORATION Of course, it's a Fox film. For whenever the unusual, amazing or extraordinary is done in photoplay production, 'most everybody who knows the film business just naturally says one word — "Fox." Up to a year or so ago the photoplay world and the public were amazed at each new Fox film surprise. . ■ : Now they. take each Fox surprise as a matter of course. "The Fox way of doing: things," they say, and look forward to the next. William: pox has just gone on producing one surprise after another, until he has set a "surprise" standard of production. So that motion-picture exhibitors and the public have become so used to the unusual from William Fox that they re-fuse to be surprised any more — at anything hef'dttes. They just demand his films — and let it go at that. True — the demand is progressive — is growing bigger and more insistent from day to day, from week to week, from month to month. Until now — the demand is so vast that the question is — which exhibitor can get Fox productions first.