Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1927)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jul - Dec 1927
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
Volume:
Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1927)
Leaf #:
000826
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Early Cinema, Fan Magazines, 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:
The leading Hollywood fan magazine of the 1920s and 1930s. Photoplay offered readers portraits of their favorite movie stars and stories about their personal lives. The magazine played an important promotional function for the Hollywood industry, but its editors and reviewers could also be highly critical of Hollywood. Beginning in 1921, Photoplay bestowed its annual 'Medal of Honor' for the film readers voted as the best of the year. -- Eric Hoyt, 2011.
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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Amateur Movies By Frederick James Smith Photoplay's $2,000 Contest Films to be used in first complete study of amateur movie movement ENTHUSIASTIC amateurs are just beginning to realize the full significance of Photoplay's $2,000 contest, the first competition held anywhere in the world for the makers of amateur movies. This contest will provide the first real opportunity to study and analyze amateur films. Realizing this, Roy W. Winton, managing director of the Amateur Cinema League, has addressed a direct call to members of his league. "Photoplay Magazine has a large purpose behind this contest," says Mr. Winton. " It wants the best amateur films of the world submitted. The contest winners will be amply repaid for their personal efforts as the prizes are high grade. After the contest it is the intention of Photoplay Magazine to submit all films received to a committee of experts to use them as the basis for a careful study of what makes an amateur film great. From this study can come a yardstick to measure amateur effort. Each one of us can have George Eastman makes a movie of Commander Richard E. Byrd, transAtlantic flier, with his CineKodak before him a sort of Amateur Standard by which he can judge his own film. "If this Amateur Standard can once be set up it can be revised from time to time. It has never been set up because amateur films have never been got together in sufficient numbers to make this possible. When we have this standard we can all undertake studies to find out how best we can meet and surpass it in the various things to go to make it up. ' ' Here is the first great opportunity, in Photoplay Magazine's Amateur Movie Contest, for us to get at the fundamentals of our new hobby and this new art of amateur motion pictures. Mr. Winton has asked the members of the Amateur Cinema League to help make this study a reality. Photoplay Magazine will welcome the contributions of the league members. Incidentally, the contest is attracting international interest. Read the rules. [ continued on page 114 ] Lee Tracy and the "Broadway" company study an amateur film of themselves, via the Pathex. you know, is the New York stage hit of cabarets, bootleggers and crime "Broadway,"