1925 Movie Magazine
Sample pages from a Finkelstein and Ruben Movie Magazine publication that contains advertisements, movie industry articles, and theater schedules.
The Movie Magazine is a phenomenon that rose in popularity in the 1920s and evolved to become a publication that was meant more to entertain rather than inform. Early stages of the Movie Magazine featured articles explaining the mechanics of the movie industry, but going into the late '20s and early 30s fictionalized versions of films became the bulk of the content. These later magazines were predecessors for today's reader digests.
The above example wavers between the earlier versions of magazines and the later ones, containing both entertaining and informative content.
Movieland Magazine
Upper Midwest Jewish Archives, Archives and Special Collections in the University of Minnesota Archives, Box 1, File 3
Finkelstein and Ruben
April 1925
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New Garrick Theatre Schedule
A week's schedule of the New Garrick Theatre in Minneapolis, St. Paul. Included in it are advertisements for local business, a list of those in charge of running the day to day at the theater, and the members of the orchestra playing for the silent films. It is an example of how much the cinematic experience has changed and what it was like for audiences in the early 20th Century.
Upper Midwest Jewish Archives, Archives and Special Collections in the University of Minnesota, Box 1, File 3
Finkelstein and Ruben Department of Publicity
Finkelstein and Ruben
December 21, 1919
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Movie Advertisements
A sampling of an artists' movie advertisement portfolio with notes.
Several questions are raised by this document. Who exactly created it? Was it the same person who wrote the margin notes? Who was it created for? The artist of of the advertisements could very well have been Frank Eisenberg himself as a few of the ads mention theaters, like the New Garrick, that were owned by the theater moguls he worked for, Finkelstien and Ruben. Frank could have also been the one writing in the notes of explanation for the audience reviewing it, or perhaps the collection of work was presented to Frank as examples for a future hire.
The films advertised in the document are all releases from the year 1919, and this sampling provides a good picture of the types of movies that were popular in the Twin Cities that year.
Upper Midwest Jewish Archives, Archives and Special Collections in the University of Minnesota Archives, Box 1, File 3
Finkelstein and Ruben
1919
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