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Auction History Result 6p0397 MOTION PICTURE STUDIO DIRECTORY & TRADE ANNUAL hardcover book 1921 actor images & information! Date Sold 11/24/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" [16 x 23 cm]; 422 pages) (Learn More) Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual, the 1921 reference book published by Motion Picture News, an exhibitor magazine. It is similar to the Film Daily yearbooks published at the same time, but it has fewer pages, and like those, it gives biographies of then-current stars and also information about directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, producers, and film studios, information we have not seen in similar books, and like the casting directories, it has a lot of full-page and partial page display ads that were paid for by current actors looking to get more exposure. There are around 50 full-page images of stars and directors at the front of the book, including Tod Browning and Mary Miles Minter. We have seen examples of this book from 1921 and 1923. We have also seen two very similar books simply called "Motion Picture Studio Directory", from 1918 and 1919, and those are hardcovers that measure 8 3/4" x 12" and had hundreds of pages, so we imagine that between 1918 and 1921, the book merged with something called "Trade Annual", and downsized in size and increased in page count, and we don't know if it was published in other years. We believe it to be quite rare! Important Added Info: Note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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