Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Record Details:

Title:
Reel Life
Date:
Sep 1914 - Mar 1915
Publisher:
New York, Mutual film corporation
Volume:
Reel life; the Mutual film magazine
Leaf #:
000882
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:
July 25, 2024
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Y A Personal Message to H Notion Picture Exhibitors <l$y£c?ti)in T/tanJioiiser ^ E I am back where you knew me for years — -at the head of the Thanhouser Film Corporation of New Rochelle, New York, which I founded in 1908. After three years of travel and study abroad, the men who bought out my interest in the studio I started persuaded me to return. film. I thus give you strength of story, strength of production. I promise you the best motion pictures that can be produced — quality in every particular. I will announce later when these pictures bearing my name will be released. Next week I will tell you of some specific changes that will make for better quality, better satisfaction, and better relationship between yourselves and the Thanhouser Film Corporation. Naturally, it will be some little time before the pictures bearing my personal indorsement will be released. In the meantime, I request that my friends recall the reputation which the Thanhouser productions enjoyed during the period from 1908 until 1912, when I was personally in charge. I am a showman and know your needs ; I am a producer and will meet your needs ; I am a guarantee against unrest among your patrons. I never cheated a negative, I put into a picture every dollar necessary to make it a great picture. I am an exponent of the natural length Watch for the Date of the First EDWIN THANHOUSER Releases The Thanhouser Three-a-Week "The Master's Model" (two reels). Released March 16. Heart-interest drama with Nolan Gane and Fan Bourke. "The Stolen Jewels" (one reel) drama. Released March 21. With Harris Gordon, Ernest Warde, and Morgan Jones. PrillCeSS : "Joe Harkin's Ward/' Released March 19. With Rene Farrington and Boyd Marshall. Distributed exclusively through the United States and Canada by the Mutual Film Corporation. Book The Twenty-Million Dollar Mystery Thanhouser's newest serial. See representatives of Thanhouser Syndicate Corporation at any Mutual office in the United States and Canada. All Star Cast Includes James Cruze Sidney Bracy Harry Benham Mary Elizabeth Forbes Marguerite Snow Frank Farrington Controlled by Thanhouser Syndicate Corp., 71 West 23rd St., N. Y. Thanhouser Film Corp., New Rochelle, N.Y. Producers of "The Million Dollar Mystery."