The Moving Picture Boys
Motion Picture Chums & Movie Boys (see Notes)
Author: [Victor Appleton]
Written by: Howard Garis & others
Artists: Walter S. Rogers; R. Emmett Owen & Dick Richards.
15 Volumes (1913 to 1919)
Brief Bibliography & Dustjacket Gallery
[Gallery 1 - Quads] [Gallery 2 - Duos]
1 The Moving Picture Boys 1913
2 The Moving Picture Boys in the West 1913
Taking Scenes Among the Cowboys and Indians
3 The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast 1913
Showing the Perils of the Deep
4 The Moving Picture Boys in the Jungle 1913
Stirring Times Among Wild Animals
5 The Moving Picture Boys in Earthquake Land 1913
Working Amid Many Perils
6 The Moving Picture Boys and the Flood 1914
Perilous Days on the Mississippi
7 The Moving Picture Boys at Panama 1915
Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal
8 The Moving Picture Boys Under the Sea 1916
The Treasure of the Lost Ship
9 The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front 1918
The Hunt for the Stolen Army Films
10 The Moving Picture Boys on French Battlefields 1919
Taking Pictures for the U.S. Army
11 The Moving Picture Boys’ First Showhouse 1913
Opening Up Business in Fairlands
12 The Moving Picture Boys at Seaside Park 1913
The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk
13 The Moving Picture Boys on Broadway 1914
The Mystery of the Missing Cash Box
14 The Moving Picture Boys’ Outdoor Exhibition 1914
The Film that Solved the Mystery
15 The Moving Picture Boys’ New Idea 1914
The First Educational Photo Playhouse
16 The Moving Picture Boys at the Big Fair 1915
The Greatest Film Ever Exhibited
17 The Moving Picture Boys’ War Spectacle 1916
The Film that Won the Prize
Format 1: (Volumes 1 to 10) – Published by Grosset & Dunlap (G&D) circa 1913-1918
Olive Green Fine Weave Texture Cloth Binding with Black Lettering on front and spine. Cover illustration in black & red.
Endpages & Edgecoloring are plain white.
Illustrations include a Frontispiece on glossy coated paper.
Dustjacket is White Coated paper with quadrant-style line drawing in red & green ink matching binding.
Format 2: (Volumes 1 to 15) – Published by Grosset & Dunlap (G&D) circa 1918-1919
Olive Green Coarse Weave Texture Cloth Binding with Black Lettering on front and spine. Cover illustration in black & red.
Endpages & Edgecoloring are plain white.
Illustrations include a Frontispiece on glossy coated paper.
Dustjacket is White Coated paper with pictorial duotone illustration in gray & red ink matching frontispiece.
Note 1: Vols. 11 to 15 originally issued as Vol. 1 to 5 respectively of Motion Picture Chums series.
Note 2: Vol. 1 to 15 reprinted in paperback as Movie Boys series by Garden City Publishing circa 1926-27.
Note 3: Vol. 16 & 17 originally part of the Motion Picture Chums series reprinted in paperback as Movie Boys series by Garden City Publishing circa 1926-27. However, never issued in Moving Picture Boys format.