Camera!

{{Short description|American film industry trade paper (1918–1924)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} [[File:Camera!, July 13, 1919 02.jpg|thumb|Bobby Vernon on the cover of ''Camera!'' (July 1919)]] '''''Camera! The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry''''' was an American film industry trade paper from 1918 to 1924.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Brady |first1=Anna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gC3gAAAAMAAJ&q=Camera!+The+Digest+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry |title=Union List of Film Periodicals: Holdings of Selected American Collections |last2=Wall |first2=Richard |last3=Weiner |first3=Carolynn Newitt |date=1984 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-23702-7 |language=en |access-date=2022-11-30 |archive-date=2023-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110043215/https://books.google.com/books?id=gC3gAAAAMAAJ&q=Camera!+The+Digest+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Camera!'' is notable as "the film industry’s first weekly trade paper to consistently publish from Los Angeles."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hoyt |first=Eric |url=https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.122/ |title=Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema's Trade Press |date=2022-03-22 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-38369-2 |doi=10.1525/luminos.122 |s2cid=246343126 |access-date=2022-11-30 |archive-date=2022-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221123164835/https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.122/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The publication also took strong stances against "what it perceived as detrimental forces in the industry, notably, the rampant 'fake' schools of acting, and the newly formed Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and its first president Will Hays."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Peter Lester |date=2018 |title="Why I am Ashamed of the Movies": Editorial Policy, Early Hollywood, and the Case of Camera! |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/712966 |journal=The Moving Image |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=48 |doi=10.5749/movingimage.18.1.0048|s2cid=192353871 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Unlike some entertainment industry periodicals of the day, ''Camera!'' only covered cinema, not legitimate theater or vaudeville.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Foote |first=Lisle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xl-QBQAAQBAJ&dq=Camera%21+The+Digest+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry&pg=PA143 |title=Buster Keaton's Crew: The Team Behind His Silent Films |date=2014-10-31 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-9683-9 |language=en |access-date=2023-01-29 |archive-date=2023-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110043109/https://books.google.com/books?id=xl-QBQAAQBAJ&dq=Camera!+The+Digest+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry&pg=PA143#v=onepage&q=Camera!%20The%20Digest%20of%20the%20Motion%20Picture%20Industry&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''Camera!'' offices were adjacent to the Photoplayers' Equity Association.<ref name=":0" />

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==External links== {{commons category|Camera!}} * [https://mediahistoryproject.org/reader.php?id=camera1919losa Media History Digital Library: Camera! April 1919-April 1920]

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