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Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual, the 1923 reference book published by Motion Picture News, an exhibitor magazine. It is similar to the casting directories published starting around the same time, but it has fewer pages, and like those, it gives biographies of then-current stars and also information about directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, producers, and film studios, information we have not seen in similar books, and like the casting directories, it has a lot of full-page and partial page display ads that were paid for by current actors looking to get more exposure. There are many full-page images of stars and directors throughout the book, including Harold Lloyd, William S. Hart, Marion Davies, Warner Baxter, and D.W. Griffith. We have seen examples of this book from 1921 and 1923. We have also seen two very similar books simply called "Motion Picture Studio Directory", from 1918 and 1919, and those are hardcovers that measure 8 3/4" x 12" and had hundreds of pages, so we imagine that between 1918 and 1921, the book merged with something called "Trade Annual", and downsized in size and increased in page count, and we don't know if it was published in other years. We believe it to be quite rare!
NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography.

Important Added Info: Note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads.

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