{{Short description|American film industry paper}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = Motion Picture News cover (March 1917).jpg | image_caption = Cover from March 1917 | website = | publisher = William A. Johnston | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | frequency = Weekly | category = Entertainment | company = Exhibitors' Time Inc. | circulation = | circulation_year = | firstdate = {{start date and age|1913|9}} | country = United States | based = New York City, U.S. | language = English | issn = }}
The '''''Motion Picture News''''' was an American film industry trade paper published from 1913 to 1930.
==History== The publication was created through the 1913 merger of the ''Moving Picture News'' founded in 1908 and the ''Exhibitors' Times'', founded earlier in 1913.<ref name="start">Grau, Robert (1914). ''[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_BTYOAAAAIAAJ/page/n359 <!-- pg=248 quote="motion picture news" "william a. johnston". --> The Theatre of Science]'', p. 247</ref><ref name="saunders1">{{cite book|editor-last=Abel|editor-first=Richard|year=2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9cc71Uekc_EC&pg=PA646|title=Encyclopedia of Early Cinema|page=646|publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9780203482049}}</ref>
[[File:Trailed by Three (1920) - Vekroff Mann & Holmes.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Director Perry N. Vekroff and actors Frankie Mann and Stuart Holmes during the production of ''Trailed by Three'' (1920), shown reading the ''Motion Picture News'']]
After being acquired by Martin Quigley in 1930, the publication was merged with ''Exhibitors' Herald World'' to form the ''Motion Picture Herald''.<ref name="time1">{{cite magazine|date=December 22, 1930|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,740860,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814011026/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,740860,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 14, 2009|title=The Press: Cinema Corner|magazine=Time}}</ref><ref name="timesmerge2">{{cite news|date=December 15, 1930|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/12/15/archives/film-magazines-merge-four-to-be-issued-as-two-martin-quigley.html|title=Film Magazines Merge|work=The New York Times}}</ref>
==See also== * List of film periodicals
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category-inline|Motion Picture News|''Motion Picture News''}} * [https://archive.org/search?query=%22Moving+Picture+News%22&sort=-date ''Moving Picture News''] at the Internet Archive * [https://archive.org/details/exhibitorstimes01wmaj/page/n5/mode/2up ''Exhibitors' Times''] at the Internet Archive * [https://archive.org/search?query=%22Motion+Picture+News%22&sort=-date&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%5B1908+TO+1930%5D ''Motion Picture News''] at the Internet Archive
Category:1913 establishments in the United States Category:1930 disestablishments in the United States Category:Defunct film magazines published in the United States Category:Weekly magazines published in the United States Category:Magazines established in 1913 Category:Magazines disestablished in 1930 Category:Professional and trade magazines published in the United States Category:Magazines published in New York City
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