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Auction History Result 2d0549 LOT OF 10 MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINES 1940s-1950s great cover images + cool movie articles! Date Sold 5/15/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. a lot of 10 issues of Motion Picture ("First Screen Magazine - Founded 1911"; "Oldest, Largest and Best Movie Magazine in the World."; "First Best & Largest"; "First and Best"; "More copies sold than any two other movie publications"), one of the many movie magazine sold to the public. It began publication in February 1911 as "The Motion Picture Story Magazine" (it measured 6 1/2" X 9 1/2"), and exactly three years later, it changed its name to simply "Motion Picture Magazine" (and some time around that time, it adopted the larger size that would be standard for decades). Each issue features a great full color cover of a leading star of the day, plus lots of interior publicity stories about current stars and movies with many color and black and white images throughout. Also, in every issue are many wonderful vintage ads, some in color and some in black and white, and sometimes the ads can be just as much fun as the original stories and pictures. Of course, some of the ads are from movies that were about to open, and in the early days of eBay, people would remove those full-page ads and auction them by themselves, and they would often sell for $10, $20, or more, just for a single movie ad removed from a magazine just like this! Note that in May of 1932, the magazine slashed its price from 25 cents to 15 cents, but even that did not help in the height of the Depression, and in late 1934, Motion Picture combined with "Golden Screen" magazine, and for a few issues, the cover said "Motion Picture combined with Golden Screen", but they soon dropped that. Also, at some time in the early 1950s, this magazine changed its name to Motion Picture and Television Magazine, because of the growing influence of television. Finally, note that this magazine advertised it self as "First, Best, and Largest". Photoplay started publication in 1909, but it was not the later movie magazine format, so it is likely on that technicality that the publishers of this magazine claim they were "first"! Note that the items in this lot are from the 1940s to the 1950s. We do not provide a list of these items, but there are images of all of them. Measurements: 9" x 11"Note that we have provided a picture of the front cover of each magazine, but no other images. 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. Please note that we briefly attempted to check to see if the magazines are complete and uncut, and we believe that they are. 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 magazines. We have solely provided an overall description of the condition of the magazine, but you can also refer to our super-sized images of the covers. Please bid (or not bid) based on that overall grade and by viewing the super-sized images. Learn More about condition grades Titles included:
  
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