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Auction History Result 9h075 MOTOGRAPHY exhibitor magazine July 20, 1912 Essanay's The Fall of Montezuma! Date Sold 4/1/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Exhibitor Magazine (measures 9" x 12" [23 x 30 cm]; 52 pages) (Learn More) Motography ("Published Bi-Weekly by Electricity Magazine Corporation"), one of the many trade magazines sent to movie theater owners. Apparently, it was first published around 1909, when it was called Nickelodeon (which means it was surely one of the very first such magazines). In 1911, the magazine changed its name to Motography. It seems to have been aimed solely at the Midwest, and it was published in Chicago. We were consigned a group of 18 of these from the early 1910s and we had never seen a single issue before that, but we are told it ceased publication in 1918. Each magazine was bi-weekly (or monthly) and measured approximately 9" x 12", and each contained around 60 pages. Each monthly issue would be filled with profusely illustrated articles about upcoming movies, statistics about box office grosses of current releases, and sometimes articles about coming developments in motion picture technology, and sometimes sections illustrating how theaters advertised current movies. UNLIKE OTHER EXHIBITOR MAGAZINES, EACH ISSUE OF THIS MAGAZINE ONLY HAD A FEW ADS, BUT THIS IS OFFSET BY THE FACT the ARTICLES ARE REALLY INTERESTING. Note that these exhibitor magazines were ONLY sent to theater owners, and the general public never had a chance to buy them. But most theater owners treated them like old newspapers, throwing them away after the movies had played. Consequently, they are extremely rare, especially those from the 1930s or earlier! Important Added Info: Note that we have provided a picture of the front cover of the magazine, and also pictures of one or more interior two-page spreads (but we didn't make much effort to find the best ones!). These images should greatly help you judge the overall condition of the magazine. Please realize that there were only a few ads in each magazine, and that the bulk of each magazine is taken up by stories about current productions and other information of interest to theater owners (and I don't know that this information can be found anywhere else or that it has been reproduced in any book since its first publication!). Please know that these magazines are sealed in bags and are ready for shipping, and we cannot answer any questions about them or look through them for you, so please bid (or do not bid) based on the images we have provided. Condition: good to very good. Note that we have attempted to check to see if the magazine is complete and uncut, and we believe that it is. However, there is a slight possibility that we might have missed a small cut or a page that was neatly removed, and if that happens, you can return the magazine. We have solely provided an overall description of the condition of the magazine, but you can also refer to our super-sized images. Please bid (or not bid) based on that overall grade and by viewing the super-sized images. Learn More about condition grades 
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