''Picture Play'', originally titled ''Picture-Play Weekly'' was an American weekly magazine focusing on the film industry. Its first edition was published on April 10, 1915. It eventually transitioned from a weekly to a monthly magazine, before ending its production run, when it continued as ''
Your Charm'', in March 1941.
History
''Picture-Play Weekly'' began as a weekly magazine on April 10, 1915. By the end of the year it had become a semi-monthly magazine, and its name had changed to ''Picture-Play Magazine'', changed to a monthly format several months later in March 1916. Its next transformation came in May 1927, when it shortened its title and removed the hyphen, taking its final name of ''Picture Play''.
Published by
Street & Smith
Street & Smith or Street & Smith Publications, Inc. was a New York City publisher specializing in inexpensive paperbacks and magazines referred to as dime novels and pulp fiction. They also published comic books and sporting yearbooks. Among t ...
, its original editor was Charles Gatchell, who began as a cartoonist, and thereby had a pictorial style. By 1917 it had built up a circulation of over 200,000. Along with ''
Photoplay
''Photoplay'' was one of the first American film (another name for ''photoplay'') fan magazines. It was founded in 1911 in Chicago, the same year that J. Stuart Blackton founded '' Motion Picture Story,'' a magazine also directed at fans. For mo ...
'', ''
Screen Play
''ScreenPlay'' is a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993.
Background
After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, fea ...
'' and ''
Screen Romances'', it was one of the more memorable film magazines of the first half of the 20th century.
''Picture Play'' ended its publication run when it continued as ''
Your Charm'', “The Magazine for Moderns,” in March 1941.
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Film magazines published in the United States
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Weekly magazines published in the United States
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1915
Magazines disestablished in 1941
Magazines published in New York City