Reel Life (Sep 1913 - Mar 1914)

Record Details:

Title:
Reel Life
Date:
Sep 1913 - Mar 1914
Publisher:
New York, Mutual film corporation
Volume:
Reel life; the Mutual film magazine
Leaf #:
000625
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Organ of the Mutual Film Company. Primarily promoted the films of Mutual producers (including Reliance, Keystone, and Thanhouser) to exhibitors. But read closely and you'll find equipment advertisements and examples of Mutual dissing its competitors, such as Universal. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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25 Ml Reliance dramas are selected and prepared for screen production by the Mutual scenario department which is under the personal supervision of Frank E. Woods and is supplied with the greatest stories that authors of recognized ability can produce. Some of the most famousfamous writers in the literary world are now writing photoplays exclusively for the "Mutual." I Headed by David W. Griffith, the recognized genius of Motion Picture Producers, the most most noted stage directors in the art including Christy Cabanne, Eugene Sanger, James Kirkwood, Edward Morrisey, Edgar Lewis, Travers Vale, Edward Dillon and Charles Le Viness are the master minds responsible for Reliance pictures that will revolutionize the silent drama. ^ctor Among the popular screen favorites and talented artists lately added to what is already the largest "stock company" in the history of the business are such well known names as Mae Marsh, Norma Phillips, Anna Lughlin, Miriam Cooper, Irene Hunt, Consuelo Baily, Henry Walthall, Robert Herron, Donald Crisp, Jiquel Lanoe, Spottswood Aitken, Thomas H. Weissman, Edward Cecil, and Many other famous players too numerous to mention. ¥oiHctloii Two new studios perfectly equipped under the direction of such acknowledged picture experts as William Bitzer and Samuel DeVall have been completed within the last two weeks. One on the beautiful Clara Morris estate at Riverdale, New York City, and the great Broadway studio at the corner of 16th Street and Union Square, New York. These up-to-date plants insure beautiful photography and make possible the lavish stage settings necessary to the pretentious high class picture productions 1 PRESENTED BY ;o:(.(/\:mo!>: (( roe ^\y;(\ -oc m RELEASES 1 Three Strong ^ Plays ^ ^ Reliance Motion Picture Company 357 Riverdale Avenue, New York City MANAGERS — Carefully planned, artistic one and three-sheet Posters, worthy of the high-class offering's they announce, with every REELIANCE release.