Camera! The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry

Camera! The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry was an American film industry trade paper from 1918 to 1924.[1] Camera! is notable as "the film industry’s first weekly trade paper to consistently publish from Los Angeles."[2] 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."[3]

Bobby Vernon on the cover of Camera! (July 1919)

Unlike some entertainment industry periodicals of the day, Camera! only covered cinema, not legitimate theater or vaudeville.[4] The Camera! offices were adjacent to the Photoplayers' Equity Association.[4]

References
  1. Brady, Anna; Wall, Richard; Weiner, Carolynn Newitt (1984). Union List of Film Periodicals: Holdings of Selected American Collections. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-23702-7.
  2. Hoyt, Eric (2022-03-22). Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema's Trade Press. University of California Press. doi:10.1525/luminos.122. ISBN 978-0-520-38369-2. S2CID 246343126.
  3. Peter Lester (2018). ""Why I am Ashamed of the Movies": Editorial Policy, Early Hollywood, and the Case of Camera!". The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. 18 (1): 48. doi:10.5749/movingimage.18.1.0048. S2CID 192353871.
  4. Foote, Lisle (2014-10-31). Buster Keaton's Crew: The Team Behind His Silent Films. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9683-9.
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