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The Daily Film, is now online at Media History Digital Library. From 1922 to 1929 with some 22,000 pages according to Leonard Maltin. I glanced over a couple of pages along with some Photoplay magazines and I was amazed. Hopefully there is much more to come.

The release of The Film Daily from 1922 to 1929 was announced on Leonard Maltin's blog http://blogs.indiewire.com/leonardmalti ... ry_online/ and Luke McKernan's Bioscope site http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/film-daily/

The articles on these sites have links to numerous issues of The Film Daily - the short subject issues, the directors annual supplement, and some of the color advertising sections.

Among the 22,000 pages of The Film Daily you will find issues of Exhibitors Daily Review, Daily Screen World, Sound Waves and The Distributor (the MGM house organ). Happy hunting - think of them as easter eggs.

I've found some remarkable material in this collection and will be very interested in what fellow nitratevillians come across. Please contact me if you have bound volumes that might be candidates for scanning or would be interesting in providing financial support.

And finally my thanks to Karl Thiede for allowing us to scan items from his collection, and Eric Hoyt for coordinating the scanning in California.

David Pierce
Media History Digital Library

Karl's a great guy, and he has a remarkable collection.

Man you should not have told me about these Film Dailies I have been looking at them for the past 3 to 4 hours straight! Outstanding stuff. The promotion of Marion Davies THE YOUNG DIANA was spectacular! High praise for Keaton shorts, some Colleen Moore and I am just getting started. Thanks again.

Apparently, UNDER TWO FLAGS with Priscilla Dean must have been among the bigger hits of 1922. It was getting all sorts of accolades. And incredible promotion. As I have never heard of the picture I assume that it is lost. Although I hope not. Viola Dana was really packing em' in that year two. I was looking for the big add's for Constance Talmadge EAST IS WEST and didn't find them. Maybe I was going though the pages to swiftly?

Thanks to David for spearheading this project. In the past historians wasted untold amounts of time and money simply gaining access to this kind of resource. Now they can actual use it to shed light on the forgotten byways of film history.

We are so lucky to have so much of this material coming online for all to use. I've been fascinated to trawl through the archive of Australian newspapers that the Australian National Library has set up, and I can't wait to start on this archive. Thank you to all the generous scholars and collectors involved!

"Apparently, UNDER TWO FLAGS with Priscilla Dean must have been among the bigger hits of 1922. It was getting all sorts of accolades. And incredible promotion. As I have never heard of the picture I assume that it is lost. Although I hope not"

MOMA has it. And there's a crummy bootleg vhs that's been making the rounds for awhile.
Henry Nicolella

Gagman 66 wrote:Apparently, UNDER TWO FLAGS with Priscilla Dean must have been among the bigger hits of 1922. It was getting all sorts of accolades. And incredible promotion. As I have never heard of the picture I assume that it is lost. Although I hope not. Viola Dana was really packing em' in that year two. I was looking for the big add's for Constance Talmadge EAST IS WEST and didn't find them. Maybe I was going though the pages to swiftly?

Don't confuse big ads with a film doing well. Carl Laemmle was notorious for taking out full page ads on all of his big productions, hits or not.

Excellent resource, BTW. Thanks to all involved.

Rob Farr wrote:Thanks to David for spearheading this project. In the past historians wasted untold amounts of time and money simply gaining access to this kind of resource. Now they can actual use it to shed light on the forgotten byways of film history

Amen! Lost in all the ballyhoo about social networking and universal 24/7 connectivity with each other, is the availabilty, increasing every day, so it seems, of archival material online -- stuff you had to hunt down physically, and then view it on rolls of microfilm, sometimes (if lucky) on optical disc, or search for original material at auction where finding exactly what you are researching is out of your control.

Any idea what an original issue of "Moving Picture World" goes for today -- if you can locate one? Usually more than the cost of a portable external 1TB hard drive that could store digitally every copy of MPW ever printed from 1907 on (and still have plenty of space left for a nice big selection of your favorite movies)!

Gene Zonarich wrote:
Any idea what an original issue of "Moving Picture World" goes for today -- if you can locate one? Usually more than the cost of a portable external 1TB hard drive that could store digitally every copy of MPW ever printed from 1907 on (and still have plenty of space left for a nice big selection of your favorite movies)!

They just auctioned a dozen or so at eMovieposter dot com, mostly dating 1916-20. They went for between $35-$85 each, prices skewing toward the higher end.

I have 5 or 6 Moving Picture World magazines. They used to sell for $25 or so on eBay. Lately , they have been selling for $70 or more on eBay. Some sellers have multiple issued listed for $199, but you'd have to be crazy to pay that much for one...