Motion Picture News
{{Short description|American film industry paper}}
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| image_file = Motion Picture News cover (March 1917).jpg
| image_caption = Cover from March 1917
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| publisher = William A. Johnston
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| frequency = Weekly
| category = Entertainment
| company = Exhibitors' Time Inc.
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| firstdate = {{start date and age|1913|9}}
| country = United States
| based = New York City, U.S.
| language = English
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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.Grau, Robert (1914). [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_BTYOAAAAIAAJ/page/n359 The Theatre of Science], p. 247{{cite book|editor-last=Abel|editor-first=Richard|year=2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9cc71Uekc_EC&pg=PA646|title=Encyclopedia of Early Cinema|page=646|publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9780203482049}}
File:Trailed by Three (1920) - Vekroff Mann & Holmes.jpg 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.{{cite magazine|date=December 22, 1930|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,740860,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814011026/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,740860,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 14, 2009|title=The Press: Cinema Corner|magazine=Time}}{{cite news|date=December 15, 1930|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/12/15/archives/film-magazines-merge-four-to-be-issued-as-two-martin-quigley.html|title=Film Magazines Merge|work=The New York Times}}
See also
References
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External links
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- [https://books.google.com/books?id=lwMoAAAAYAAJ Motion Picture News, Vols. 20–24] (November–December 1919), via Google Books
- [http://mediahistoryproject.org/ Motion Picture News (1913–1930)] links at Media History Digital Library
Category:1913 establishments in the United States
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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 1913
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1930
Category:Professional and trade magazines
Category:Magazines published in New York City
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