Motion Picture Herald
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File:Sessue Hayakawa - Jun 15 1918 EH.jpg on the cover of Exhibitors Herald]]
The Motion Picture Herald (MPH) was an American film industry trade paper first published as the Exhibitors Herald in 1915, and MPH from 1931 to December 1972.[https://www.nytimes.com/1943/12/25/archives/miss-grable-voted-leading-1943-star-takes-motion-picture-heralds.html "Miss Grable Voted Leading 1943 Star; Takes Motion Picture Herald's Box-Office Championship -Bob Hope Is Second"]. The New York Times. December 25, 1943. p. 19.[https://www.nytimes.com/1954/08/20/archives/t-ramsaye-dies-a-film-historian-former-official-of-the-motion.html "T. Ramsaye Dies; A Film Historian; Former Official of The Motion Picture Herald Was Editor in Chief cif Pathe News"]. The New York Times. August 20, 1954. p. 19.Anthony Slide, ed. (1985). [https://books.google.com/books?id=vTngAAAAMAAJ International Film, Radio, and Television Journals]. Greenwood Press. p. 242. It was replaced by the QP Herald, which only lasted until May 1973.Robert A. Osborone (1973). [https://books.google.com/books?id=6fwpAAAAYAAJ Academy Awards Oscar Annual]. ESE California. p. 10.
History
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The paper's origin was in 1915, when a Chicago printing company launched a film publication as a regional trade paper for exhibitors in the Midwest and known as Exhibitors Herald.
Publisher Martin Quigley bought the paper and, over the following two decades, developed the Exhibitors Herald into a national trade paper for the US film industry.{{cite web |title=Exhibitors Herald Mar-Apr 1924 |url=http://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/exhibitorsherald18exhi_0_0007 |website=Lantern |publisher=Media History Digital Library |access-date=27 December 2014}}
In 1917, Quigley acquired and merged another publication, Motography, into his magazine. In 1927, he further acquired and merged the magazine The Moving Picture World and began publishing it as Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World, which was later shortened to the more manageable title, Exhibitors Herald-World. Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World also incorporated The Film Index that was founded in 1906.{{cite news|title=Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World, Vol 90, No. 1|url=https://archive.org/stream/exhibitorsherald90unse#page/n27/mode/1up|date=January 7, 1928|page=20|access-date=April 2, 2018}}{{cite news|title=Motion Picture Herald, Vol 103, No. 1|url=https://archive.org/stream/motionpictureher103unse#page/n12/mode/1up|date=April 4, 1931|page=7|access-date=April 2, 2018}}
After acquiring Motion Picture News in 1930, he merged the publications into the Motion Picture Herald.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090814011026/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,740860,00.html "The Press: Cinema Corner"]. Time. December 22, 1930.[https://www.nytimes.com/1927/12/30/archives/screen-papers-merged-exhibitors-herald-and-moving-picture-world.html "Screen Papers Merged: Exhibitors' Herald and Moving Picture World Close Deal"]. The New York Times. December 30, 1927. p. 21.[https://www.nytimes.com/1930/12/15/archives/film-magazines-merge-four-to-be-issued-as-two-martin-quigley.html "Film Magazines Merge"]. The New York Times. December 15, 1930. p. 42.
The Media History Digital Library has scans of the archive of Exhibitors Herald (1917 to 1927); Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (1928); Exhibitors Herald World (1929 to 1930) and Motion Picture Herald (1931–1956) available online.{{cite web |url=http://www.mediahistoryproject.org/hollywood/index.html |title=Hollywood Studio System Collection |website=Media History Digital Library |access-date=April 2, 2018}}
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://lantern.mediahist.org/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=MOTOGRAPHY Exhibitors Herald and MOTOGRAPHY] at Media History Digital Library
- [http://www.mediahistoryproject.org/hollywood/index.html Motion Picture Herald (1931 to 1956)] at Media History Digital Library
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Category:Film magazines published in the United States
Category:Weekly magazines published in the United States
Category:Defunct magazines published in the United States
Category:Magazines established in 1915
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1972