Motion Picture News

Motion Picture News
Cover from March 1917
CategoriesEntertainment
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherWilliam A. Johnston
First issueSeptember 1913; 111 years ago (1913-09)
CompanyExhibitors' Time Inc.
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City, U.S.
LanguageEnglish

The Motion Picture News was an American film industry trade paper published from 1913 to 1930.

History

The publication was created through the 1913 merger of the Moving Picture News founded in 1908 and The Exhibitors' Times, founded earlier in 1913.[1][2]

Director Perry N. Vekroff and actors Frankie Mann and Stuart Holmes during the production of Trailed by Three (1920), shown reading the Motion Picture News

After being acquired by Martin Quigley in 1930, the publication was merged with Exhibitors' Herald World to form the Motion Picture Herald.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Grau, Robert (1914). The Theatre of Science, p. 247
  2. ^ Abel, Richard, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Taylor & Francis. p. 646. ISBN 9780203482049.
  3. ^ "The Press: Cinema Corner". Time. December 22, 1930. Archived from the original on August 14, 2009.
  4. ^ "Film Magazines Merge". The New York Times. December 15, 1930.

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