By 1939 movies had become big business enough for the National Screen Service to be established. The National Screen Service...

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The final periodical we will look at in this series, is the long running Boxoffice magazine. Boxoffice has been a,...

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One of the biggest technological advancements in movie theatre history had nothing to do with what was happening on the...

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Technology was the name of the game in 1925, and the advertisements in this issue of Motion Picture News prove...

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In the previous decade, film exhibition trade publications were discussing the viability of traveling to exhibit films in far off...

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Motion Picture News was a film exhibitor’s trade publication that came about through the 1913 merging of Moving Picture News...

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Though there were far fewer service/materials advertisements in this 1917 issue of Moving Picture World than would be found in...

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Most of the advertisements in this 1917 issue of Moving Picture World market directly to film exhibitors making their way...

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Moving Picture World was a periodical published by  James Petrie (J.P.) Chalmers, Jr and was targeted to film exhibitors. The...

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This week, we’ll be tracing trends and changes in the world of theatre design and film exhibition through some of...

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