Motion Picture Magazine
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| image_caption = Front cover of the first issue of The Motion Picture Story Magazine (February 1911) featuring Edison
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| category = Fan magazine
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| publisher = M. P. Publishing Company, Inc.
| founded = 1911
| lastdate = 1977
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Motion Picture was an American monthly fan magazine about film, published from 1911 to 1977.Fuller, Kathryn H. “Motion Picture Story Magazine and the Gendered Construction of the Movie Fan.” At the Picture Show: Small-Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture. Smithsonian Institution: Washington, 1996. pp. 133–149. It was lastly published by Macfadden Publications.
History and profile
The magazine was established by Vitagraph Studios co-founder J. Stuart Blackton and partner Eugene V. Brewster under the title The Motion Picture Story Magazine.{{cite web|title=Motion Picture Magazine|url=http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=mpmag|work=The Online Books Page|access-date=2016-04-24}} In contrast to earlier film magazines such as The Moving Picture World, which were aimed at film exhibitors, The Motion Picture Story Magazine was aimed at regular film goers. It has been regarded as the first fan magazine.{{cite news |author=Pamela Hutchinson |title=Photoplay magazine: the birth of celebrity culture |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/jan/26/photoplay-magazine-hollywood-film-studios-stars-celebrity-culture |access-date=2018-09-13 |work=The Guardian |date=January 26, 2016}}
The magazine was very successful from its inception, with an initial run of 50,000 copies and a circulation of 200,000 by 1914. Writers were amazed at the outset to receive their checks for contributions almost immediately on acceptance, a policy on the part of Brewster that was effective in quickly inducing the highest grade fiction authors to become affiliated with the publication. Contributors included Rex Beach, Will Carleton and Horatio C. King.Robert Grau (1914) The Theatre of Science: A Volume of Progress and Achievement in the Motion Picture Industry, Broadway Publishing Company, New York
The magazine's most successful column was entitled "The Answer Man" (written by a woman) that answered readers' questions about the film world. This was an innovation, the first of its kind in journalism.
In 1914, it was renamed Motion Picture Magazine. Early editions included fiction and information on how to get involved in film production. The magazine shifted to a focus on celebrities and attracted a larger female readership. In 1919, the circulation jumped from 248,845 to 400,000.Bordwell, David (1985). The Classic Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960, p. 99. Columbia University Press {{ISBN|978-0-231-06055-4}}
In 1941, Motion Picture Magazine merged with Hollywood{{cite web |title=HOLLYWOOD magazine June 1941 |url=https://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=6355247 |website=auctions.emovieposter.com |access-date=16 July 2023}} ("Motion Picture combined with Hollywood Magazine"),
- {{cite web |last1=Boudreau |first1=Leo |title=Clark Gable in his military uniform on the cover of "Motion Picture Magazine," February, 1944. |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/57440551@N03/52164454947 |website=flickr |access-date=16 July 2023 |date=22 June 2022}}
- {{cite web |title=Motion Picture, Combined with Hollywood Magazine, July 1943 |url=https://atticbooks.ca/products/133120 |website=Attic Books |access-date=16 July 2023 |language=en}} and Screen Life and continued to be published for almost four more decades, ending its run in 1977.
''Motion Picture Classic''
Its sister publication Motion Picture Classic, started as its supplement,{{cite book|author=Heather Addison|title=Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JaKF7CABtKgC&pg=PA42|year=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-94676-6|page=42}} was published monthly from September 1915 to March 1931.
The Motion Picture Hall of Fame{{anchor|The Motion Picture Hall of Fame}}
The Motion Picture Hall of Fame was a contest held by Motion Picture Magazine.{{cite news |title=SCREEN; THE GREATEST |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1922/12/31/archives/screen-the-greatest.html |access-date=9 March 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=31 December 1922}}
::"The Motion Picture Hall of Fame." Motion Picture Magazine. Dec, 1918: 10.{{cite journal |last1=Zdriluk |first1=Beth |title=Mary Pickford and Questions of National Identity During WWI |url=https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/kinema/article/view/1107/1304 |journal=Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media |publisher=University of Waterloo |access-date=9 March 2022 |language=en |doi=10.15353/kinema.vi.1107 |date=10 April 2005}}
{{anchor|Dominos Club}}
The Hollywood Motion Picture Hall of Fame exhibit, {{cite web |title=Hollywood Motion Picture Hall of Fame, Exposition, 1935 |url=https://digitallibrary.sdsu.edu/islandora/object/sdsu%3A132382 |website=SDSUnbound |publisher=sdsu.edu |access-date=9 March 2022}}{{cite web |title=The Enchanted Cottage, a 1924 Miracle Romance |url=https://classicfilmaficionados.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/the-enchanted-cottage-a-1924-miracle-romance-2/ |website=Classic Film Aficionados |access-date=9 March 2022 |language=en |date=20 August 2016}} at the California Pacific International Exposition, in 1935–36, had a stock company of actors that signed with the Screen Actors Guild and The Dominos Club of Hollywood (social organization for actresses, including: Carole Lombard, Thelma Todd, and ZaSu Pitts).{{cite book |last1=Romain |first1=Theresa St |title=Margarita Fischer: A Biography of the Silent Film Star |date=2008 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-3552-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zLG0nI2ZYoEC&dq=%22The+Dominos+Club%22&pg=PA150 |language=en |quote=1933, Margarita occupied herself by becoming involved with the Dominos Club, a social organization for actresses that put out a breezy monthly bulletin of gossip and news about acting jobs.}}{{cite book |last1=Morgan |first1=Michelle |title=Carole Lombard: Twentieth-Century Star |date=5 October 2016 |publisher=The History Press |isbn=978-0-7509-6939-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FoQTDQAAQBAJ&dq=%22The+Dominos+Club%22&pg=PT79 |language=en |quote=The Dominos Club, an acting organisation with actresses such as Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts as members, put on a play called Ladies of the Masque, while others recited nursery rhymes and Shakespeare sonnets.}}{{cite book |title=Arts & Architecture, Volumes 41-42 |date=1932 |publisher=American Institute of Architects. San Francisco Chapter |location=San Francisco |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F81UAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+Dominos+Club%22 |language=en |quote=...presented at the Dominos Club, 1248 North Crescent Heights Boulevard, Hollywood}}{{cite news |last1=Harnisch |first1=Larry |title=Ebay mystery |url=https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/01/ebay-mystery.html |access-date=9 March 2022 |work=The Daily Mirror |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=9 January 2008 |quote=Pat Collins, left, Edward G. Robinson and Julian Eltinge for a performance by the Dominos Club, Nov. 25, 1935.}}{{cite book |title=American Cinematographer |date=1935 |publisher=American Society of Cinematographers |location=Los Angeles |url=https://archive.org/stream/americancinemato16amer |access-date=9 March 2022}}{{cite book |title=The Hollywood Low Down (1934-1936) |date=1936 |publisher=The Hollywood Low Down |location=Hollywood |url=https://archive.org/stream/hollywoodlowdown00holl_0 |access-date=9 March 2022}}{{cite web |title=Hollywood Filmograph (Jan-Dec 1932) |url=https://archive.org/stream/hollywoodfilmogr12holl |website=archive.org |publisher=Hollywood Filmograph, inc. |access-date=9 March 2022 |date=January 1932}}
"Wax Mannequins of Film Stars" were housed in a "Motion Picture Hall of Fame" in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Motion Picture}}
- [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=mpmag Motion Picture Magazine] The Online Books Page
- [http://www.moviemags.com/main.php?title=MOTION%20PICTURE%20STORY%20MAGAZINE%20&etos=% Motion Picture Story Magazine]
- [http://www.moviemags.com/main.php?title=MOTION%20PICTURE&etos=% Motion Picture Magazine]
- [http://uwf.edu/dearle/enewsstand/enewsstand_files/Page1124.htm Newsstand: 1925: Motion Picture Magazine] via University of West Florida
- [https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/motion-picture-magazine-june-1914-hollywood-silent Motion Picture Magazine #June 1914 issue,.. $00.15cents](archived)
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- https://mediahistoryproject.org/collections/fan-magazines/
- https://www.encyclopedia.com/media/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fan-magazines
- https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/going-hollywood-movie-fan-magazines
- Slide, Anthony, '[https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781604734133.003.0002 The Birth of the Fan Magazine]', Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers (Jackson, MS, 2010; online edn, Mississippi Scholarship Online, 20 Mar. 2014)
Category:Film magazines published in the United States
Category:Monthly magazines published in the United States
Category:Defunct magazines published in the United States