Aims, it looks like it might be Photoplay (1911), although Motion Picture Story was started the same year. From the Wikipedia entry for Photoplay:
Photoplay began as a short-fiction magazine concerned mostly with the plots and characters of films at the time and was used as a promotional tool for those films. In 1915, Julian Johnson and James R. Quirk became the editors (though Quirk had been vice-president of the magazine since its inception), and together they created a format which would set a precedent for almost all celebrity magazines that followed.
the bed was shaking as it came towards me
I suspect that waking-dream-paralysis state is responsible for many reports of encounters with aliens and ghosts.
Awesome- thanks Kathy! You have officially helped Joe with his homework!
Awesome- thanks Kathy! You have officially helped Joe with his homework!
You should put that on your resume for your MLS!
CJ won't admit to liking anyone on iCarly. He still refuses to admit he likes the show. Ummm, yeah. That is how it just randomly is on the tv enough that I know Sam is the blond.
Yay, I helped someone!
It wasn't really research, it was just guessing (I looked up the Photoplay entry on Wikipedia because I knew it'd been around since at least the 1920s).
Carly is pretty cute, too!
Aims, apparently it was Motion Picture Stories [link] Photoplay was the first with a wide circulation. (I googled Photoplay.)
eta: Kathy and I have the same brain.
According to the AMC website:
1912: Photoplay, the first true movie "fan" magazine, debuted and gave rise to the whole idea of a celebrity and fan culture. By the early 1920's, over a dozen such magazines crowded the news-stands with names like Cinema Art, Film Fun, Motion Picture Journal, Movie Weekly, Picture Play, and Screenland.
Aims, my Film History book, by Robert Sklar, mentiones Photoplay and Motion Picture Story as the first two. It's doesn't really go into detail though.
