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Auction History Result 6h097 LOT OF 9 1953 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW EXHIBITOR MAGAZINES WITH GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES COVERS Date Sold 4/17/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. a lot of 9 1953 issues of Showmen's Trade Review (each with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes covers featuring Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell), one of the many trade magazines sent to movie theater owners starting in the 1930s. Each magazine measured approximately 9" x 12", and each contained around 30 pages. Each weekly 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 Of greatest interest to collectors are the dozens of advertisements (most full-page) from all of the major studios! Many of these ads were full-color, and the studios spent a great deal of time and money creating them, for it was through these exhibitor magazines that the studios gained bookings for their upcoming releases, which was the direct income they received from those movies (by contrast, the posters they created helped theaters take in more money, but that did not directly benefit the studios, except when they owned the theaters, or if higher grosses resulted in more bookings). 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!. Measurements: 9" x 12"Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades Titles included:
 
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