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Auction History Result 7x287 LOT OF 9 MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY EXHIBITOR MAGAZINES 1915 super early movie images, rare! Date Sold 7/2/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. a lot of 9 1910s issues of The Moving Picture Weekly. We know that all of the magazines except one are missing both covers, and possibly some interior pages, and the one that has the cover is missing the back cover, and could be incomplete as well. However, these magazines are incredibly rare, so it is difficult to know how many pages they should have. Please do not bid on these unless you can accept their much lesser condition. Of course, Moving Picture Weekly is the magazine published by Universal Studios, and sent each week to theaters in order to keep them informed about the latest Universal releases. It started publication around 1912, as "Universal Weekly", but AT SOME TIME IN THE 1915, THE TITLE CHANGED TO "MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY", which seems very odd, because each issue (even when it was "Universal Weekly" before that) was solely devoted to Universal movies (but this was probably some attempt by Carl Laemmle to trick theater owners into thinking that the magazine covered other studios as well!). In 1922, Laemmle changed the name back to "Universal Weekly", and it seems amazing that it did not happen before 7 years passed! Each issue measured approximately 8" x 10 1/2" and contained between 30 and 50 black & white pages, with covers printed in a single color (sometimes black and white, but often other colors). The issues of most interest to collectors are those from the early 1930s, as many of those contained ads and artwork for the major Universal horror movies of that period, and almost all of that material has not been seen since the original release of this publication. Many of these ads are very striking, as the studios spent a great deal of time and money creating them, for it was through these ads that the Universal 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 1920s and 1930s! Note that it is quite common for dealers to cut out the one or two-page horror ads and sell them by themselves, sometimes selling for $100 or more each! We do not, of course, recommend doing so, but we can't stop the buyers of these issues from cutting them up should they choose to do so! Note that we do not have the time to list the contents of each magazine we are selling, but we have pictured the cover, and, in most cases, an interior single page, and an interior 2-page spread. We tried to pick out some of the more interesting interior pages, but we did not spend much time doing so! Each issue has a huge amount of visual material, as well as much written material that cannot be found anywhere else, and we doubt that anyone buying any of these issues will be disappointed by their contents! We do not provide a list of these items, but there are images of all of them. Measurements: 8 1/4" x 10 1/4"Condition: fair. All the magazines are coverless except one (see above). All are fragile and darkened (but of course, they contain many ads for movies that are likely not to be found anywhere else in the world!). Learn More about condition grades Titles included:
 
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