# Camera!
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{{Short description|American film industry trade paper (1918–1924)}}
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[[File:Camera!, July 13, 1919 02.jpg|thumb|[Bobby Vernon](/source/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.[{{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 }}] ''Camera!'' is notable as "the film industry’s first weekly trade paper to consistently publish from Los Angeles."[{{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 }}] 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](/source/Motion_Picture_Association) and its first president [Will Hays](/source/Will_H._Hays)."[{{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 }}]
Unlike some entertainment industry periodicals of the day, ''Camera!'' only covered cinema, not [legitimate theater](/source/Legitimate_theatre) or [vaudeville](/source/vaudeville).[{{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 }}] The ''Camera!'' offices were adjacent to the [Photoplayers' Equity Association](/source/Photoplayers'_Equity_Association).